Calvin Booth became Calvin Bluff. Again. For the second straight trade deadline, the Nuggets remained idle. Booth, the general manager, said the plan was to go big or go home. They did nothing, and we are supposed to believe this is a good thing?

The Nuggets remained quiet as other teams in the West made splashy moves (see: Golden State and Los Angeles Lakers ). “I think the best way to describe it is we either had to go big or do nothing,” Booth explained Thursday night before the Nuggets hosted the Orlando Magic.

Denver canvassed the league looking for an upgrade to its bench this week and was open to a frontcourt or backcourt acquisition, multiple league sources told The Denver Post, but the team was not