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NY Post
New York Post
4 Sep 2024


NextImg:Nets promote B.J. Johnson as GM Sean Marks reshuffles front office

The Nets will promote draft guru B.J. Johnson to assistant general manager, the Post has learned.

The move will come as part of a host of reshuffling moves in Brooklyn’s front office.

Johnson has been with the organization since shortly after general manager Sean Marks’ arrival back in 2016.

He’d served as a Player Development Coordinator, before being promoted to Senior Director of College Scouting & Player Evaluation.

Nets GM Sean Marks has reshuffled the team’s front office. Noah K. Murray-NY Post

Johnson’s eye for college talent that has helped Brooklyn draft well over the past few years. He has run their drafts for the past four years, and is largely credited with prodding the Nets to take Nic Claxton in 2019 and Jalen Wilson in 2023, both in the second round.

“It’s great to find a guy in college, and I give our draft process a lot of credit,” Marks said recently. “BJ Johnson has run that for the last few years, did a heck of a job in evaluating and finding Nic and being able to draft Nic where we did.”

Claxton is the starting center, and key piece of the Nets’ rebuild and was recently re-signed to a four-year, $97 million contract. Wilson was the MVP at Las Vegas Summer League in July and could be in the Nets’ rotation this upcoming season.

With Brooklyn losing Jeff Peterson and Ryan Gisriel to Charlotte, Johnson is stepping into the role of assistant general manager, directly under Marks and alongside fellow assistant GM Andy Birdsong.

The Post had been the first to report he was in line for a promotion back in July.

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Nic Claxton of the Brooklyn Nets in mid-air losing control of the basketball during a game against the Phoenix Suns at Barclays Center
B.J. Johnson has been credited with the Nets’ decision to draft Nic Claxton. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post

“I think some of our guys have done a terrific job,” Marks said earlier this offseason. “In terms of just simply drafting, I mean, you want to take BJ Johnson. BJ runs our draft and has done so for the last several years. So, there’ll be more pressure and more responsibility placed on several of the guys in-house here.”

Peterson had been assistant general manager in Brooklyn since 2019, while Gisriel had served a host of front office roles since arriving as an intern in 2013-14.