Strike 2: Bob Myers doesn’t have anything better to do these days, right? Why not take a job – be it the general manager position or potentially something higher up – with the still very viable Denver Nuggets?
Myers is considered a leading candidate for the single basketball ops job that is currently open at Ball Arena. He most certainly has the resume, having won a national championship as a player at UCLA, and then four NBA titles as the GM of the Golden State Warriors dynasty a decade ago. Twice he was named NBA “Executive of the Year.” And he’s only 50 years old.
At the moment, Myers works for ESPN as a TV analyst. That’s got to be an easy gig for him. Maybe too easy? Maybe Myers is ready for another challenge?
Whoever gets hired by Josh Kroenke to oversee the Nuggets will have a challenging job ahead, given the salary cap mess his predecessors left behind. While there have been a lot of ideas thrown around publicly, there are no quick fixes or easy answers as Denver tries to catch up to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The task at hand is daunting. And who better to take it on than someone with the experience, savvy and youthful energy – and proven track record – to handle it?
Myers would have everything to gain – like a fifth ring – and nothing to lose if he came back to an NBA front office. Nothing can dent that resume.
The Nuggets aren’t – and won’t be – Myers only suitor this summer. The Phoenix Suns have reportedly already reached out to him. But if you think the Nuggets situation is difficult, you need to check out what the Suns are having to deal with these days. The Nuggets gig looks easy by comparison.
Keep in mind that Myers’ resume is so stout that he’s well beyond being anyone’s “Yes” man. He’s going to need to be promised a lot of autonomy in order to convince him to leave his cushy TV gig. That means no meddling from ownership. Kroenke has proven to be capable of that.
Hopefully, Kroenke agrees that Myers is the guy, and has already prepared a sales pitch. It needs to include allowing a guy with four rings to make his own basketball decisions. Having already made David Adelman the new head coach, the questions/decisions will revolve around the current Nuggets roster, and if there are ways to improve it even with the salary cap shackles that exist.
Of course a solid working relationship needs to exist between the new head coach and the veteran GM. We’ve already seen what happens when that combo doesn’t click.
It certainly appears that Kroenke is going to channel his inner Dick Monfort and promote interim GM Ben Tenzer – a solid business and salary cap guy who is absolutely NOT a qualified “basketball man” at this point in his career – to the permanent GM role. The idea is frustrating to a lot of Nuggets followers, who know that the team needs someone to come if from outside the organization to deliver a fresh perspective. Tenzer will need to have a roll, with all the cap stuff that needs to be fixed. But Tenzer will need to answer to someone higher up, like a four-time NBA champion basketball mind (perhaps the title is “president of basketball operations” or something similar) in order to get the necessary help for Nikola Jokic while the NBA’s best player is still wearing a Nuggets uniform.
Those days aren’t going to last forever, and they’ll be wasted if Kroenke only promotes from within and fails to lure a proven winner like Myers from the outside to actually fix what’s broken.
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