NBA Rumors: Calvin Booth, Nuggets Expected to Reach Agreement on Contract Extension

The Denver Nuggets are expected to reach an agreement on a contract extension soon with general manager Calvin Booth, per ESPN's Ramona Shelburne.

"Booth will be the chief architect of whatever comes next as the Nuggets have for months been speaking to him about a contract extension, multiple sources said, and a deal is expected soon," Shelburne reported.

Booth has been the Nuggets' general manager since 2020. Denver won its first-ever NBA championship in 2023.

The 48-year-old Booth played in the NBA from 1999-2009. Three seasons later, he joined the New Orleans Pelicans as a scout. After one season, he left for the Minnesota Timberwolves and eventually became director of player personnel.

In Aug. 2017, Booth joined Denver as its assistant general manager under president of basketball operations Tim Connelly. He took over the general manager role in 2020 after Nuggets GM Artūras Karnišovas left to run basketball operations for the Chicago Bulls.

In May 2022, Connelly left for Minnesota to become its president of basketball operations, making Booth the team's front office leader.

The Nuggets already had their championship core in place in Nikola Jokić, Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr., but the Booth-led office did a great job building around that quartet.

Most notably, the Nuggets signed eventual sixth man Bruce Brown in free agency and traded for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who joined the starting lineup. Christian Braun, now a starter, also landed with the team via the draft.

It's clear the Nuggets want Booth sticking around for the foreseeable future, and all signs are pointing in that direction. He's been part of a winning front office that turned the franchise around, and Denver obviously hopes that trend remains the same going forward.