Tommy Balcetis wasn’t sure what exactly he was walking into when he accepted an offer to join the Denver Nuggets front office back in 2013.
After all, Balcetis had only been working in the NBA for a year, in which his main responsibility was selling media rights to various networks throughout Europe and Africa.
Denver’s new Assistant General Manager ended up in that role following a desire to work in basketball after playing competitively through his teenage years. A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Balcetis first visited the United States when he was 13 years old, and a trip to the United Airlines Center – home of Michael Jordan’s Bulls – cemented that basketball would be in his future, in some shape or form.