Dennis Lindsey, then the Utah Jazz’s normal supervisor, talks to members of the media on the Zions Financial institution Basketball Middle in Salt Lake Metropolis on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
Longtime Utah Jazz government Dennis Lindsey is reportedly near touchdown a job with one other NBA group, and it’s one that's near his roots.
On Monday afternoon, Substack’s Marc Stein reported that Lindsey, a Texas native, is in “superior discussions” to hitch the Dallas Mavericks’ entrance workplace as a guide.
The Mavericks are in superior discussions to rent former Utah Jazz lead government Dennis Lindsey in a guide's position to GM Nico Harrison to bolster their entrance workplace, league sources inform @TheSteinLine.
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The addition of Lindsey, who has 25 years of expertise working in NBA entrance places of work, could be enormous for a Mavericks entrance workplace that lacks expertise and is dealing with an enormous summer season.
Normal supervisor Nico Harrison was employed in 2021 considerably unconventionally, as he had been an government at Nike earlier than that (Stein reported that Lindsey was a finalist for the job then).
Harrison made an enormous splash on the commerce deadline in February by buying and selling for Kyrie Irving, however the pairing of Irving with Luka Doncic didn't go as deliberate, and the Mavericks tanked down the stretch and missed the playoffs with Irving set to develop into a free agent when the offseason begins.
Lindsey was employed by the Jazz as normal supervisor in 2012 to exchange Kevin O’Connor after stints because the assistant normal supervisor of the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets (amongst different roles with the Rockets).
Lindsey constructed the Jazz right into a perennial playoff group led by head coach Quin Snyder (employed in 2014) and was promoted to the position of government vp of basketball operations in 2019, with Justin Zanik turning into normal supervisor.
In June 2021, nonetheless, Lindsey stepped down from that position to develop into an adviser for the group, with the transfer coming a couple of months after Ryan Smith purchased the group from the Gail Miller household.
Whereas the transfer was offered as if Lindsey would stay in a front-facing position with the group, that didn't happen, as Danny Ainge was named CEO of basketball six months later and Zanik remained GM.
Since then, Ainge and Zanik have been the front-facing executives of the group.