If you can’t beat ’em, steal their front office from ’em.
That wasn’t the actual reasoning behind the Kroenke family’s recruitment of Jon Wallace, who started his new job this week helming basketball operations alongside Ben Tenzer. But it was at least an underlying theme of the hire.
The Nuggets and Timberwolves have an increasingly strange and entertaining tradition of plucking coaches and front office workers from each other. And it just so happens that Denver entered this particular offseason on a six-game losing streak against its division rival, dating back to the 2024 playoffs.