It’s been less than 11 months since Tim Connelly arrived in Denver as the new general manager/executive vice president of basketball operations for the Nuggets.
Within a week of joining the front office last June 17, he hired Brian Shaw as the team’s new coach and then jumped right into the NBA Draft and free agency. The pace hasn’t slowed much since.
In less than two weeks, the Denver Nuggets will be seeking to become the fourth team in NBA history with the good fortune of swapping a double-digit draft position for a top-three pick.
In the first 47 minutes, 59 seconds of Denver’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Feb. 3, Foye went 1-for-6 from 3-point range. After his final attempt splashed through the net at the buzzer, the only stat that mattered was the final score.
When the 2013-14 NBA Most Improved Player was announced, Denver Nuggets center Timofey Mozgov was not among the 31 players who received at least one vote from 126 writers and broadcasters. Perhaps they had already submitted their ballots by the time Mozgov took the court against the Golden State Warriors on April 10.
Ellis, Issel and Mutombo were among the nine players and coaches who attended a 20th anniversary celebration for the 1993-94 team at Pepsi Center on March 17.
By the time the Denver Nuggets returned to Oracle Arena on Jan. 15, more than eight months had passed since their first-round playoff loss to the Golden State Warriors.
During one stretch from 1990 to 2002, the Nuggets lost 11 of 12 games in Miami. With that historical context in mind, it’s easy to understand why Denver’s 111-107 victory over the two-time defending champion Heat on March 14 ranked No. 5 in our countdown of the best Nuggets games of 2013-14.
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When Randy Foye joined the Nuggets last July, he brought a reputation as a lethal 3-point shooter and a veteran leader who set the tone for his teammates on the court and in the locker room.