Who Is Tim Connelly? -- with Adam Mares of DNVR Sports

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Adam Mares of DNVR Sports, who has covered Tim Connelly for eight years in Denver. Adam helps shed light on not only what Connelly has done from a roster construction standpoint in Denver to who he is as a person and leader. In this episode, you’ll be able to glean the Denver perspective of the move (disappointment), while also better understanding what Connelly’s strengths and weaknesses as a lead executive have been. Topics include... — The Denver perspective on losing their chief decision-maker in what is likely the most important summer of the Nikola Jokic era — How the rest of the league is viewing the tactics the Wolves are using to pry away Connelly, specifically using ownership stake as a carrot — Is this a bigger loss for Denver than it is a gain for Minnesota? — Connelly’s background coming from a basketball family in Baltimore — Connelly’s track record of establishing culture and finding gems in the draft, and more question marks about his trading tracking — Will Connelly influence the style of play? — Chris Finch and Tim Connelly’s personality similarities — How Connelly might round out his front office For a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security, sign up at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day and a fourth quarter.
0:13.7	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast, brought by Blue Wire podcast.
0:17.6	Saturday morning, bright and early.
0:21.6	Some additional news on the Tim Connolly pursuit by the Minnesota Timberwolves came out from
0:28.5	Adrian Giorgi-Narski this morning.
0:31.4	And I'm joined by Adam Maras of DNVR Sports, where I talked to earlier this week, who covers
0:37.1	the Denver Nuggets, Adam.
0:39.3	When we talked, I made you promise that if this went down, that you would come on the show
0:46.2	and discuss what Tim is and all those things. And you said, well, you just want me to come on for 30
0:53.3	minutes and cry. Are you at the point of crying?
0:57.9	I mean, I know you loved Tim.
1:00.8	Yeah, man. I mean, this is, you know, just to kind of give you the Denver perspective, just weeks ago, and it was obvious.
1:08.0	It had been obvious for months, but just weeks ago in the exit interviews, everybody in the organization came out and said, hey, this is the biggest summer of the Okachara.
1:15.8	This is the moment where everything has to come together.
1:18.8	We're locked in.
1:19.9	We got a lot of big decisions to make.
1:21.7	We got to maximize because losing Jamal Murray for two years kind of shorten that title window that they have.
1:26.8	This is like, hey, you gotta go all in.
1:28.7	Right.
1:29.2	So to now do that without the guy who was the architect
1:31.9	of this from the very beginning.
1:33.7	And by the way, all of this stuff starts coming down
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