Among the six nights separating his first NBA Draft as general manager of the Denver Nuggets and the opening of free agency on June 30 of last year, Calvin Booth took Monte Morris to dinner. The 27-year-old point guard performed admirably as Denver's floor general while starter Jamal Murray nursed a torn ACL for the 2021-22 season. Even with Murray set to return alongside two-time MVP center Nikola Jokic for this campaign, and despite mounting trade speculation about the man sitting across the table, Booth said he viewed Morris as a key piece of the Nuggets' chase toward the Western Conference title.
LA JOLLA, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth speak during the teams training camp at the UCSD campus in La Jolla, California on Thursday, September 28, 2022. Among the six nights separating his first NBA Draft as general manager of the Denver Nuggets and the opening of free agency on June 30 of last year, Calvin Booth took Monte Morris to dinner.
“Everyone that he’s touching, everyone likes him,” said Arturas Karnisovas, the Bulls’ executive vice president after spending three years alongside Booth in Denver. And so he shaded the background of locker rooms throughout his nomadic 10-year NBA playing career, after the Wizards drafted the 6-foot-11 Booth out of Penn State with the sixth pick of the second round in 1999. He timed the rare openings when a low-usage giant, with only 366 games to his resume, could speak volumes and actually be heard.
“I was just an OK NBA player. And that might be the highest of the compliment, if I’m being self-deprecating,” Booth said. After Utah’s two attempts went wide on the other side of the floor, Cuban and the Mavericks’ entire bench sprinted around the court like a scene ripped from March Madness. “He could play with anybody because he had a high basketball IQ,” McMillan told Yahoo Sports. “He had a feel for the game and for his teammates.”
It was the 2008 Treviso Eurocamp, that next spring, which crystalized Booth’s faculty for the front office. He glued his gaze to the court, the same stare as if he was readying to hear his name called for action. Talent is easy to qualify, but it is the ability to quantify — and project — that separates a draft find from a true steal. “It was obvious, he’s got a great eye for talent,” Connelly said. Batum was the 25th pick in that draft, but he has contributed the seventh most win shares of that entire class.
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