Then-New Orleans Hornets basic supervisor Dell Demps watches motion between UCLA and California throughout an NCAA sport in Berkeley, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. Tony Avelar, Related Press
The Utah Jazz are reportedly dropping their second assistant coach in lower than two weeks to a different NBA workforce’s entrance workplace.
On Thursday, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that Dell Demps — considered one of former Jazz coach Quin Snyder’s high assistants — is leaving to affix the Minnesota Timberwolves’ entrance workplace.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are hiring Jazz assistant coach and former Pelicans GM Dell Demps as a part of new President Tim Connelly’s entrance workplace, sources inform me and @JonKrawczynski.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 9, 2022
Demps joins Sergi Oliva, whom ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Could 30 was leaving the Jazz for an assistant basic supervisor place with the Portland Path Blazers.
Rumors have been swirling in latest days that Demps could be leaving for the Timberwolves, the place he’ll be a part of new workforce president Tim Connelly, who made a shock transfer to Minnesota after a protracted and profitable tenure main the Denver Nuggets entrance workplace.
As Charania indicated, this can mark a return to a entrance workplace function for Demps. Earlier than becoming a member of the Jazz as a coach in September 2020, Demps had been the New Orleans Pelicans’ high govt from 2010-2019 and was within the San Antonio Spurs’ entrance workplace earlier than that.
It was throughout his time with the Spurs that he obtained to know Snyder, who was head coach of the franchise’s D-League (now G League) workforce, the Austin Toros, from 2007-2010.
In July 2020, Snyder informed reporters how he and Demps turned shut pals over common journeys to a espresso store in Austin and “had some nice conferences and developed an incredible relationship.”