Nuggets won’t retain assistant general manager Tommy Balcetis, sources say

The Nuggets are not renewing the contract of assistant general manager Tommy Balcetis multiple sources familiar with the situation communicated The Denver Post on Monday Balcetis joined the organization in under then-general manager Tim Connelly running the squad s analytics department and eventually rising to the assistant GM role Born in Lithuania he s been highly regarded as an up-and-coming front office mind for years having been selected for The Athletic s under list of bright young executives coaches and agents in Related Articles Grading The Week Russell Westbrook or Bruce Brown Even for Nuggets association with interim GM it s an easy choice Nuggets Russell Westbrook to decline player option enter free agency source says Like Tyrese Haliburton s Pacers Nuggets were clutch kings this season Does that mean they should ve lost more games Nuggets general manager search What we know what we don t and what it means Keeler Nuggets-Thunder series was fool s gold Nikola Jokic necessities new GM to shake things up But when the Nuggets fired Calvin Booth in April their G League affiliate general manager Ben Tenzer was named interim GM rather than Balcetis revealing how club ownership felt about the front office hierarchy Balcetis was considered an internal candidate for the vacancy but not the favorite before the Kroenkes chose to let his contract expire The decision leaves Denver without a full-time general manager or assistant general manager nine days before the first round of the draft Tenzer remains in the interim position and was still considered a candidate as of Monday Want more Nuggets news Sign up for the Nuggets Insider to get all our NBA analysis