Nuggets defensive coordinator Ryan Saunders will not return next season under new head coach David Adelman, a source told.

The Nuggets are changing up their coaching staff after hiring former assistant David Adelman as their new head coach.

The team’s president and governor took the interim tag off David Adelman on Thursday, rewarding the 44-year-old hoops lifer for righting the discombobulated Nuggets on short notice and leading them to a Game 7 against the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the playoffs.