After 10 years with the Orlando Magic, vp of basketball operations Matt Lloyd is on his method out.
A league supply confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel ESPN’s Friday report that Lloyd is finalizing a deal to develop into the Minnesota Timberwolves’ senior vp of basketball operations.
Lloyd was promoted to Orlando’s vp of basketball operations in October 2021.
He’s been an assistant normal supervisor since being employed by former Magic normal supervisor Rob Hennigan in June 2012. Lloyd additionally served as interim normal supervisor in the course of the 2017 offseason after Hennigan was fired and earlier than Jeff Weltman and John Hammond, the Magic’s president of basketball operations and normal supervisor, have been employed in Might 2017.
Lloyd is chargeable for overseeing the Magic’s skilled, faculty and worldwide scouting departments, in addition to helping with roster administration and growth.
The Magic gained the NBA draft lottery final month and maintain the No. 1 choose June 23.
Earlier than becoming a member of the Magic, Lloyd spent practically 20 years with the Chicago Bulls. He began in 1994 as a game-day and particular tasks worker within the video room earlier than taking up a full-time function in ‘99 because the crew’s media providers coordinator.
Lloyd joined the basketball operations division in 2003, serving as senior supervisor of basketball operations/scout for 4 seasons earlier than turning into the crew’s director of school scouting, a task he held for his remaining 5 seasons in Chicago.
He’ll be Tim Connelly’s most important rent since he left the Denver Nuggets to develop into Minnesota’s president of basketball operations in late Might.
This text first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. E mail Khobi Value at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or comply with him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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