Back when the Denver Nuggets were a fledgling franchise fighting to stay alive in the ABA, Paula Hanson remembers some of the difficulty she faced as one of the team’s top executives.
“The challenge was being taken seriously,” Hanson recalled to Nuggets.com. “I would go out with Carl [Scheer] on sales calls with businesses and everyone would assume I was his secretary when we came in.”
Hanson wasn’t Scheer’s secretary, she was the assistant general manager of Nuggets – second in command only to Scheer who led basketball operations.
“[Carl] would let me take the lead [in those meetings] to get that out of the way quickly,” Hanson said.