Timberwolves govt Sachin Gupta is altering sports activities. He’s leaving his submit as govt vice chairman of basketball operations to take a distinguished place with soccer’s Chelsea FC, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic tweets.
Gupta, 42, has been within the Timberwolves’ entrance workplace since Might 2019. He additionally had stints with the Rockets, Sixers and Pistons.
We’ve got extra from the Northwest Division:
- The Timberwolves’ NBA G League franchise, the Iowa Wolves, has acquired the returning participant rights to protect Skylar Mays from the Westchester Knicks in alternate for the returning participant rights to protect Vit Krejci and a 2025 G League first spherical decide, in keeping with a Wolves press launch. The Timberwolves signed Mays to an Exhibit 10 contract on Tuesday. By buying and selling for Mays’ returning participant rights, the Timberwolves can supply him a bonus price as much as $77.5K if he’s waived after which spends not less than 60 days with the Iowa Wolves.
- A former Nuggets beat author is becoming a member of their group. Denver is hiring former Denver Put up reporter Mike Singer as their director of intelligence and technique, in keeping with the Put up’s Bennett Durando. Along with hiring Singer, the Nuggets are selling Todd Checovich to the place of scouting director. Drew Nicholas, who held that place for 2 years, accepted a brand new job with the Nets this summer time.
- Lots of the Jazz gamers stayed near their NBA dwelling in the course of the offseason. Keyonte George, Taylor Hendricks, Isaiah Collier, Brice Sensabaugh, Cody Williams, Kyle Filipowski, Walker Kessler and Collin Sexton spent the vast majority of the summer time understanding in Utah, in keeping with Sarah Todd of the Deseret Information.
