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Woj: Tim Connelly leaves the Denver Nuggets

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Tim Connelly has signed a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves to become their President of Basketball Operations. He had the same position with the Denver Nuggets, but decided to leave because he got paid a 5 year, 40 million dollar contract with ownership equity.

ESPN Sources: Denver Nuggets President Tim Connelly has agreed to a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves that’ll make him one of the NBA’s highest compensated executives. Significant coup for Minnesota franchise.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 23, 2022

Tim Connelly was one of the building blocks of the Nuggets culture and was responsible for a lot of the roster decisions made over the last decade of Nuggets basketball.