The Brooklyn Nets will promote BJ Johnson to assistant common supervisor, the NBA group introduced Wednesday. Johnson initially joined the Nets in 2016 shortly after common 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 lads’s nationwide group 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 Workforce program.
Per Johnson’s biography, he attended Villanova College, the place he was a member of the lads’s basketball group. 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 common supervisor.
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In April, Marks steered that Johnson could possibly be thought-about 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 common 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 believe a few of our guys have accomplished 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 accomplished so for the final a number of years. So, there’ll be extra stress and extra duty positioned on a number of of the blokes in-house right here.”
Johnson is basically credited for persuading Brooklyn’s entrance workplace to draft Nic Claxton and Jalen Wilson
In line with Brian Lewis of The New York Publish, in his new function, Johnson will lead and oversee the entire Nets’ scouting efforts. The Greensboro, North Carolina, native will work immediately 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 school, and I give our draft course of lots of credit score,” Marks mentioned not too long ago. “BJ Johnson has run that for the previous couple of 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 vice chairman of basketball operations alignment & strategic planning. Glenn DuPaul was promoted to vice chairman of basketball analytics as effectively.
