The Brooklyn Nets will promote BJ Johnson to assistant basic supervisor, the NBA workforce introduced Wednesday. Johnson initially joined the Nets in 2016 shortly after basic supervisor Sean Marks’ arrival.
He’d served as a Participant Improvement Coordinator earlier than being promoted to Senior Director of School Scouting & Participant Analysis.
BJ Johnson spent 11 years with USA Basketball earlier than becoming a member of the Brooklyn Nets
Moreover, Johnson spent 11 years with USA Basketball, together with seven years as the boys’s nationwide workforce assistant director. He labored with all ranges of USA Basketball’s males’s groups.
His main focus was growing the USA Basketball Males’s Junior Nationwide Staff program.
Per Johnson’s biography, he attended Villanova College, the place he was a member of the boys’s basketball workforce. He graduated in 2002 with a bachelor’s diploma in laptop science and a minor in Chinese language.
BJ Johnson has been promoted to assistant basic supervisor.
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In April, Marks instructed that Johnson might be thought of for a promotion following the departures of assistant GM Jeff Peterson and government director of basketball and enterprise operations Ryan Gisriel for jobs with the Charlotte Hornets.
Peterson had been assistant basic supervisor for the Nets since 2019, whereas Gisriel had served a number of entrance workplace roles since arriving as an intern in 2013-14.
“I feel a few of our guys have achieved a terrific job,” Marks stated earlier this offseason. “By way of simply merely drafting, I imply, you wish to take BJ Johnson.
“BJ runs our draft and has achieved so for the final a number of years. So, there’ll be extra strain and extra accountability positioned on a number of of the blokes in-house right here.”
Johnson is essentially credited for persuading Brooklyn’s entrance workplace to draft Nic Claxton and Jalen Wilson
In accordance with Brian Lewis of The New York Publish, in his new position, Johnson will lead and oversee all the Nets’ scouting efforts. The Greensboro, North Carolina, native will work straight beneath Marks and alongside fellow assistant GM Andy Birdsong.
Johnson has been largely credited for convincing the Nets to draft gamers like Nic Claxton (2019) and Jalen Wilson (2023) within the second spherical of their respective drafts.
“It’s nice to discover a man in faculty, and I give our draft course of a number of credit score,” Marks stated not too long ago. “BJ Johnson has run that for the previous few years. [He] did a heck of a job in evaluating and discovering Nic and having the ability to draft Nic the place we did.”
Brooklyn’s entrance workplace has already made a sequence of additives and promotions inside their basketball operations division this offseason. Two different in-house strikes come to thoughts for the Nets.
Makar Gevorkian was promoted to vp of basketball operations alignment & strategic planning. Glenn DuPaul was promoted to vp of basketball analytics as nicely.
