Denver Nuggets President and Governor Josh Kroenke announced today that Tim Connelly has been promoted to President of Basketball Operations while Arturas Karnisovas has been promoted to General Manager.
Connelly has spent the last four seasons as the Nuggets General Manager and Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations after being hired to this role in June 2013. He arrived in Denver after spending the previous three seasons with New Orleans as their Assistant General Manager.
Karnisovas was hired as Denver’s Assistant General Manager in the summer of 2013 and served in that role for three seasons before being named Assistant General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations prior to the 2016-17 season.
Karnisovas came to Denver after spending five years with the Houston Rockets organization and spent four years with the NBA league office prior to that.