Reply With Quote
who?
New Orleans Hornets hire San Antonio Spurs' Dell Demps as general manager
San Antonio Spurs vice president of basketball operations Dell Demps accepted the New Orleans Hornets' offer to become their general manager and will be introduced next week.
Demps, 40, was weighing offers from both the Phoenix Suns and Hornets. He interviewed for the Suns' general manager's job Monday.
"Through our extensive research with a number of GM candidates, Dell shined through as a rising star from a program in San Antonio that has a tremendous history of building a franchise into a championship contender,” said Hornets President Hugh Weber.
"Beginning with the hiring of Head Coach Monty Williams, we’ve begun a path of building our basketball operations with people we feel are going to be the best in the business, and Dell Demps certainly fits into that category. Our owners Mr. Shinn and Mr. Chouest both feel confident that we are developing our organization in a way that will raise expectations. Dell along with Monty share a lot of the same philosophies and work ethic that will help lead our franchise to the next level.”
If Demps had accepted Phoenix's offer, he would have worked for just hired Lon Babby, who heads the Suns' basketball operations. In New Orleans, Demps is in charge of the Hornets' basketball operations.
Demps replaces Jeff Bower, who had served as the Hornets' general manager since 2005. Last Tuesday, the franchise and Bower "mutually agreed to part ways."
"I’m very happy we were able to consolidate this down to a very short period. The biggest reason that was is that the universe of people with candidates and agents were all in the same place (last week’s Las Vegas Summer League). It saved us flying all around because we do want to meet with people face to face. We’re not the type of organization that reads someone’s name in the newspaper, calls their agent and hires them.’’
Demps was the only candidate to be interviewed twice last week during the Las Vegas Summer League, which included a dinner meeting with Hornets Coach Monty Williams.
Demps was briefly a teammate of Williams with the Spurs in 1995-96. Demps, who went undrafted, played three seasons in the NBA with San Antonio, Golden State and Orlando before eventually playing in France, Greece, Croatia, Turkey and the Philippines for seven years.
"Dell Demps is a highly respected basketball person who has been around a model organization in San Antonio,” Hornets Owner George Shinn said in a statement. “Gary and I both have the goal to be a great organization and work towards a championship. Dell is the right guy for this position and the future is bright for the New Orleans Hornets.”
Demps is considered to be a well-respected front-office executive, working the past five years for the Spurs and learning under Coach Gregg Popovich, General Manager R.C. Buford and former Spurs assistant general manager Sam Presti, now the Oklahoma City Thunder general manager. Demps also serves as general manager of the Spurs NBA Development League team in Austin, Texas.
“I’ve known him and seen him work the past seven or eight years in the different avenues of our careers,’’ Williams said. ”Guys like that who have come from successful programs is the type we love that come from success. They bring good stuff that we didn’t have.’’
who?
Collusion for CP3 IMO.
Wonder if they'll try to pull off a Miami 2.0 and clear capspace for Melo and later on, Dwight Howard...another mini dream team
Everyone wants a piece of the greatest front office in all of pro sports.
COSIGNED like a mofo
and the spurs web of dominance over the nba grows another thread
Demps is legit.
It is all a conspiracy to pull a Gasol like trade soon.
Ain't somebody gonna do that 121-63 thingy?
tee, hee.
Parker for Paul, i see
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
