The San Antonio Spurs lately introduced additions and promotions inside the group’s basketball operations employees.
The Spurs have added Mike Noyes as assistant coach/director of participant improvement. As well as, San Antonio has promoted Josh Larson to Austin Spurs common supervisor and Gorgui Dieng to assistant common supervisor of the Austin Spurs.
Noyes joins the Spurs teaching employees after spending the previous six seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies, most lately as a participant improvement coach. He bought his begin with the Grizzlies as a knowledge scientist in 2018 earlier than transitioning to video coordinator. A local a Granby, Connecticut, Noyes attended the College of Connecticut the place he began as a apply participant for the Huskies basketball group earlier than changing into a walk-on his junior season and was awarded a scholarship his senior 12 months. He earned his diploma in math/actuarial science from UConn in 2017.
Larson’s promotion to Austin Spurs common supervisor comes after spending the previous two seasons because the group’s basketball operations supervisor. In that position he assisted in Austin Spurs roster constructing and day-to-day basketball operations, in addition to participant analysis for the G League. Larson bought his begin with the Spurs in 2019 as a basketball operations high quality assurance assistant. A graduate of the College of Illinois, Larson served as pupil supervisor for the Combating Illini basketball group from 2015-19.
Dieng turns into Austin Spurs assistant common supervisor in his second season within the entrance workplace with the group. Final 12 months, Dieng served as a basketball operations consultant after saying his retirement from the NBA. A local a Kébémer, Senegal, Dieng spent a part of two seasons with the Spurs, averaging 4.4 factors, 3.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 47 video games. The ten-year veteran additionally performed for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks, showing in 628 video games over his profession and averaging 7.3 factors, 5.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 20.1 minutes. In 2015 he arrange the Gorgui Dieng Basis, which offers help together with medical tools and provides to enhance healthcare in his native Senegal. In 2019 he obtained the Offseason NBA Cares Group Help Award.