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The two men who are now tasked with bearing that superstar burden, longtime Nuggets executive Ben Tenzer and former Minnesota Timberwolves executive Jon Wallace, are seated on metal folding chairs to discuss their widely-celebrated first summer together as co-heads of the new Nuggets front office. There’s no mention of the seats being hot — not yet, anyways — but they’re well aware of the pressure that comes with this position. Truth be told, they see it as a privilege. “There’s an obligation to it,” said Wallace, a former Georgetown point guard who spent his last six seasons (three in Denver and three in Minnesota) with the architect of the Nuggets’ celebrated core, Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations and former Nuggets president of basketball operations Tim Connelly. “The word ‘pressure’ just keeps coming up, (but) I don’t think of it as pressure. I think even when you sit and talk with Nikola a lot of times, he’s very upfront about what he needs. He (gives) that reassurance that you’re on the same wavelength of him in terms of seeing the game from his perspective, and seeing what the team needs to be successful. He’s so unselfish, so you want to take advantage of that white hot space.”
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