Before their season tipped off last September, Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth candidly estimated that “we have nine real guys” on the roster. After the NBA trade deadline came and went quietly in Denver,

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

Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth had big plans at the trade deadline in the form of acquiring another frontcourt player.

The Nuggets have an extremely limited collection of tradable draft picks left and are operating over the first tax apron, further complicating their efforts to upgrade the roster.