The San Antonio Spurs not too long ago introduced additions and promotions inside the crew’s basketball operations workers.
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 workers after spending the previous six seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies, most not too long ago as a participant improvement coach. He obtained 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 crew earlier than changing into a walk-on his junior season and was awarded a scholarship his senior yr. 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 crew’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 obtained 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 scholar supervisor for the Preventing Illini basketball crew from 2015-19.
Dieng turns into Austin Spurs assistant common supervisor in his second season within the entrance workplace with the group. Final yr, Dieng served as a basketball operations consultant after asserting 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 supplies help together with medical tools and provides to enhance healthcare in his native Senegal. In 2019 he obtained the Offseason NBA Cares Neighborhood Help Award.
