MAGIC NAME ROB HENNIGAN GENERAL MANAGER

 

Orlando, FL – Rob Hennigan, who spent the past eight years with two of the NBA’s most successful franchises, has been named General Manager, Orlando Magic Chief Executive Officer Alex Martins announced today.

 

“It is with great enthusiasm and optimism that we announce Rob Hennigan as our new General Manager,” said Martins. “Rob is an astute strategist and evaluator of talent who comes to the Magic family from two championship-level organizations. We feel he is an outstanding fit and the right choice to lead our Basketball Operations team in achieving our championship goals.”

 

Hennigan spent the past four seasons with Oklahoma City, including the last two seasons as the Thunder’s assistant general manager/player personnel.  Hennigan spent his first two seasons with the Thunder as the team’s director of college/international player personnel.

 

Hennigan’s responsibilities included overseeing the Thunder’s professional, college and international scouting departments, as well as assisting with all player personnel matters and day-to-day management of basketball operations.

 

During Hennigan’s tenure, Oklahoma City compiled a 175-137 (.561) regular season record.  The Thunder won 50-or-more games twice, reached the Western Conference Finals twice and advanced to the 2012 NBA Finals.

 

Prior to joining the Thunder, Hennigan spent four seasons with the San Antonio Spurs.  He was named director of basketball operations in September of 2007.  Hennigan began as an intern during the 2004-05 season and was later named the team’s basketball operations assistant during the summer of 2005.  The Spurs won the NBA World Championship in 2004-05 and 2006-07.

 

A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Hennigan graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism from Emerson College in 2004.  He was named a Division III All-American and an Academic All-American as a senior and was the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Player of the Year for three consecutive seasons.  Hennigan finished his career as the school’s all-time leading scorer.

 

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Douglas Jones-US PRESSWIRE

After a long and diligent search, it looks like the Orlando Magic have just about found their man, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.

The Orlando Magic are in advanced talks with Oklahoma City assistant GM Rob Hennigan to make him franchise’s new GM, league sources tell Y!

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 20, 2012

Hennigan was brought to Michigan to meet with Orlando owners for a second time in recent days, league sources tell Y! Sports.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 20, 2012

Hennigan is currently an executive with the Oklahoma City Thunder and their official website lists Hennigan as Assistant general manager/player personnel.

Hennigan joined the San Antonio Spurs as an intern in 2004-05 and quickly became the team’s basketball operations assistant. He was named director of basketball operations in 2007. He then joined the Thunder as director of scouting before being promoted to his current job in 2010.

Since the Thunder play in an elimination game, David Baumann of Brighthouse Sports, citing a Magic source, says “Thursday is an unlikely day for a press conference because Hennigan’s ‪#OKC‬ team plays an elimination game that night.”

Update: It’s official.

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