Calvin Booth Breaks Silence: The Untold Story Behind His Dramatic Denver Exit and Fallout with Michael Malone
Booth pushed back on the idea that going young was purely a philosophical choice. Denver’s ownership wasn’t absorbing a massive tax bill, so he needed a pipeline of cheap contracts. And in the portion of the draft where Denver was picking, the value wasn’t in one-and-done talents the whole league had passed on, like Watson. It was in older players, discounted for superficial reasons. Pickett’s game wasn’t pretty. Gillespie was undersized and unathletic. Those were features, not bugs.
“One of the things that is slightly annoying is how everybody constantly tries to place a ceiling on different guys,” Booth said. “When Jimmy Butler goes 30th, does anybody know he’s going to be Jimmy Butler? Or Fred VanVleet’s undrafted, does anybody know he’s gonna be Fred VanVleet? So I just think you try to get a player you think is going to be good and you just see what happens. I don’t think you’re ever going to know what somebody’s true ceiling is.”
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