Trail Blazers Hire Tom Penn as Assistant General Manager - 波特蘭拓荒者 Portland Trail Blazers

Trail Blazers Hire Tom Penn as Assistant General Manager

The Portland Trail Blazers hired Tom Penn to the position of assistant
general manager, it was announced Tuesday by Trail Blazers general manager
Kevin Pritchard.

In addition, domestic scouts Michael Born and Chad Buchanan have been
promoted within the organization. Born becomes the Trail Blazers’ Director
of NBA Scouting, and Buchanan the team’s Director of College Scouting.

“These structural moves within the basketball operations department will
help us become one of the best in the business,” said Pritchard. “Tom Penn
is an expert on a litany of player personnel issues, and I’m excited to
begin working with him immediately on next month’s draft and free agency.
Michael and Chad have been tremendous talent evaluators for us, and are very
deserving of their respective promotions.”

Penn comes to the Trail Blazers from the Memphis Grizzlies, where he’s
served as assistant general manger/legal counsel since May of 2000. Prior to
joining the Grizzlies in 1999, Penn spent time as a criminal defense attorney
and a player agent after graduating from the University of Illinois law
school in 1993.

With the Trail Blazers, Penn will assist Pritchard on day-to-day player
personnel decisions, while lending his expertise to matters of the salary cap
and collective bargaining agreement.

Born and Buchanan joined the Trail Blazers as domestic scouts prior to the
2004-05 season, and have since assisted Pritchard in evaluating players at
both the collegiate and professional levels.

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拓荒者顧用Tom Penn來當助理GM，
希望他和Pritchard能一起將拓荒者帶進季後賽！

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