The Denver Nuggets are promoting long-time NBA veteran and assistant general manager Calvin Booth to general manager, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania.

This means he will work under president of basketball operations Tim Connelly, who was in search of a GM ever since losing Arturas Karnisovas to the Chicago Bulls earlier this month.

Booth played in the NBA from the 1999-00 season all the way up until 2008-09, appearing in games for seven different franchises.

As an executive, Booth began his stint with the Nuggets in 2017. The Denver Post reports he was a finalist to run the Minnesota Timberwolves' basketball operations last April, which ultimately went to Gersson Rosas.

The Nuggets sat third in the Western Conference at 43-22 at the time of the NBA's pausing on March 11.