The Nets will promote draft guru B.J. Johnson to assistant common supervisor, the Submit has discovered.
The transfer will come as a part of a number of reshuffling strikes in Brooklyn’s entrance workplace.
Johnson has been with the group since shortly after common supervisor Sean Marks’ arrival again in 2016.
He’d served as a Participant Growth Coordinator, earlier than being promoted to Senior Director of Faculty Scouting & Participant Analysis.
Johnson’s eye for faculty expertise that has helped Brooklyn draft properly over the previous few years. He has run their drafts for the previous 4 years, and is basically credited with prodding the Nets to take Nic Claxton in 2019 and Jalen Wilson in 2023, each within the second spherical.
“It’s nice to discover a man in faculty, and I give our draft course of numerous credit score,” Marks mentioned not too long ago. “BJ Johnson has run that for the previous couple of years, did a heck of a job in evaluating and discovering Nic and with the ability to draft Nic the place we did.”
Claxton is the beginning middle and key piece of the Nets’ rebuild, and was not too long ago re-signed to a four-year, $97 million contract. Wilson was the MVP at Las Vegas Summer season League in July and may very well be within the Nets’ rotation this upcoming season.
With Brooklyn shedding Jeff Peterson and Ryan Gisriel to Charlotte, Johnson is getting into the position of assistant common supervisor, straight below Marks and alongside fellow assistant GM Andy Birdsong.
The Submit had been the first to report he was in line for a promotion again in July.
“I believe a few of our guys have carried out a terrific job,” Marks mentioned earlier this offseason. “When it comes to simply merely drafting, I imply, you need to take BJ Johnson. BJ runs our draft and has carried out so for the final a number of years. So, there’ll be extra stress and extra accountability positioned on a number of of the blokes in-house right here.”
Peterson had been assistant common supervisor in Brooklyn since 2019, whereas Gisriel had served a number of entrance workplace roles since arriving as an intern in 2013-14.
