With 8 days to go until the draft, reports are out that the Denver Nuggets will not renew the contract of their Assistant General Manager Tommy Balcetis. Bennett Durando of the Denver Post as well as DNVR and several others have all reported it, though it is not yet official.

Balcetis had been with the Nuggets for 12 years, since the 2013 offseason. He had been integral to Denver’s scouting and analytics since the early days of Tim Connelly’s tenure. He will not be out of work long. At the moment interim General Manager Ben Tenzer is still with the team, and the Nuggets continue to run workouts for players expected to be late-second-round selections if not free agents that Denver might consider on two-way contracts. It’s unclear how useful any of that will be if Tenzer does not remain with the team once the actual new General Manager (or even President of Basketball Operations) is decided on, however. What is clear is that Denver is not just removing Calvin Booth from the front office, and more changes may be on the way.

Hopefully some news of an addition to the front office rather than more subtractions will also arrive soon – it’s an incredibly important off-season for the Nuggets and it’s very hard to make deals if no one is in the office to pick up the phone.