Relationships are everything.
No, this isn’t your parent or high school guidance counselor instructing you on the importance of maintaining quality associations throughout your professional career.
But when it comes to working in sports, particularly in the competitive field that is basketball operations, who you know often plays a driving force in carving out a successful path.
For Calvin Booth and Tim Connelly, a bond established in the late 1990s continued to grow over the ensuing two decades, and the two now find themselves as the lead decision-makers in the Denver Nuggets’ front office.
The year was 1999.