Longtime NBA government Troy Weaver is becoming a member of the Washington Wizards’ entrance workplace as senior adviser, sources instructed ESPN.
Weaver — who most lately spent 4 years because the Detroit Pistons’ common supervisor — reunites with Monumental Sports activities/Wizards president Michael Winger and GM Will Dawkins, with whom Weaver labored for greater than a decade as a part of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder’s basketball management.
Agent Andy Miller of Klutch Sports activities is finalizing a take care of the Wizards that can enable Weaver to onboard with the group forward of this week’s NBA draft and the league’s upcoming free company, sources mentioned. Within the phrases of 1 high Wizards government, Winger and Dawkins admire Weaver’s knack for being a “truth-teller” and difficult them amid powerful organizational selections.
Because the Wizards embark on a full rebuild, Winger, Dawkins and senior VP of participant personnel Travis Schlenk additionally focused Weaver for his experience in beginner analysis and an extended historical past in high-level participant improvement. Working with GM Sam Presti, Weaver held a major function within the scouting and improvement of the Thunder’s starry period of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Serge Ibaka and Reggie Jackson.
Weaver left the Pistons final month after possession employed Pelicans government Trajan Langdon because the franchise’s new president of basketball operations. The Pistons had the league’s losingest four-year run beneath Weaver, however he executed possession’s want to intestine the roster and reshape it with younger expertise — which included first total choose Cade Cunningham, Saddiq Bey, Jalen Duren, Jaden Ivey, Isaiah Stewart and Marcus Sasser. Weaver cleared the books on unhealthy contracts, permitting for a league-most $61 million in wage cap area.
“He took the ache of rebuilding head on, and he did the laborious work to get us the pliability we’ve got right now,” proprietor Tom Gores mentioned upon Weaver’s departure. “He additionally assembled an important core of younger males with great talent and character to present us a path to the longer term.
Becoming a member of the Wizards is a homecoming for Weaver, a Washington native and a graduate of Archbishop Carroll Excessive Faculty. His years as a coach, with famed AAU program DC Assault, launched Weaver’s profession into school basketball and in the end the NBA.