The Portland Trail Blazers have closed on a new addition to their front offices. According to information from the journalist ESPN, Adrian Wojnarowski, the Spanish Sergi Oliva has been hired as assistant of the general manager.
Oliva thus becomes the third assistant hired by the ratified Joe Cronin. The Oregon franchise also added Andrae Patterson during the season, while recently reached an agreement with Mike Schmitz, who will officially join the team in July.
The new Blazers executive has eight years of experience in the NBA. Between 2014 and 2020 he was part of the Philadelphia 76ers, where he first performed duties as a basketball operations analyst and was later promoted to vice president of strategy. In 2020 he joined Quin Snyder's coaching staff at the Utah Jazz, a role he has held for the last two years.
Before joining the NBA, Oliva spent twelve years as a coach at the youth and senior levels in Catalonia, Spain. It should be noted that the medium The Athletic has labeled him as one of the under-forty coaches/executives to watch in the NBA.
