{"id":121239,"date":"2025-06-24T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/121239\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:30:11","slug":"denver-nuggets-new-front-office-leads-to-more-questions-than-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/121239\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets new front-office leads to more questions than answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nuggets\u2019 organizational chart \u201cis closer to complete,\u201d but there are \u201cstill questions to be answered\u201d as to how the team will operate, according to Vinny Benedetto of the DENVER GAZETTE. Interim GM Ben Tenzer was retained<\/a> in a new role of EVP of Basketball Operations, while former T\u2019Wolves exec Jon Wallace returned to Denver as EVP of Player Personnel. The Nuggets no longer have a GM position after the restructuring. Benedetto noted there is \u201cone way this works and another where it doesn\u2019t.\u201d The \u201cbest-case scenario includes a clear delineation of roles.\u201d Tenzer has experience working in sports agencies and has a \u201cfirm grasp on the salary cap.\u201d Benedetto wrote Tenzer should \u201cdeal with the business side of the basketball,\u201d while Wallace, who played alongside former NBAer Roy Hibbert and Rockets F Jeff Green at Georgetown, can use his playing experience to \u201chandle more of the scouting and team-building responsibilities.\u201d The way it does not work is if Tenzer and Wallace are not \u201droutinely on the same page with each other or new head coach David Adelman.\u201d Even if they have a \u201cclear separation of job responsibilities,\u201d there is going to be \u201cplenty of crossover, as it all exists in the same ecosystem.\u201d If President Josh Kroenke has to serve as the \u201ctiebreaker between the two VPs, the Nuggets could quickly effectively be run by the team president\u201d (DENVER GAZETTE, 6\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n

BACK TO THE FUTURE: In Denver, Mark Kiszla noted it only required 76 days for Kroenke to discover he could not \u201cfind one man in the entire NBA worthy and\/or willing\u201d to become general manager. He wrote to \u201cfill the vacuum,\u201d the Nuggets \u201cpromoted two minor leaguers, in the hope that Ben Tenzer and Jon Wallace can learn on the job quickly enough to maximize what\u2019s left\u201d of C Nikola Jokic\u2019s MVP prime. By constructing what amounts to a two-headed GM, the Nuggets are \u201cgoing back to the future.\u201d Unless they are willing and able to trade F Michael Porter Jr., the Nuggets are \u201cseverely hamstrung by more punitive salary-cap restrictions\u201d that went into effect shortly after they won the first championship in franchise history two years ago (DENVER GAZETTE, 6\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n

TOO MANY COOKS: In Denver, Sean Keeler wondered why Kroenke does not \u201cjust name yourself GM and be done with it?\u201d Keeler: \u201cNo grey area. No delegations. No parsing. What the Nuggets announced instead risks too many layers, too many forms, too many meetings, too many cooks.\u201d He wrote it is a \u201cbit like that old chestnut about \u2018co-starting\u2019 NFL quarterbacks.\u201d Keeler: \u201cIf you\u2019re using two, do you really have any?\u201d He added the \u201cclock is ticking. Jokic\u2019s clock, in particular.\u201d The next five months \u201ccould shape the next decade of the franchise\u201d (DENVER POST, 6\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nuggets\u2019 organizational chart \u201cis closer to complete,\u201d but there are \u201cstill questions to be answered\u201d as to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,7457,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-121239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-leadership","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114739060682890382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}