New Orleans Hornets hire San Antonio Spurs' Dell Demps as general manager Published: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 10:58 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 3:11 PM San Antonio Spurs vice president of basketball operations Dell Demps accepted the New Orleans Hornets' offer to become their general manager and will be introduced next week. 黄蜂的新GM人选决定了，马刺的Dell Demps，他将在下周开始上任。 Demps, 40, was weighing offers from both the Phoenix Suns and Hornets. He interviewed for the Suns' general manager's job Monday. 40岁的Demps从黄蜂跟太阳中作选择。而他星期一的时候有去拜访过太阳队。 "Through our extensive research with a number of GM candidates, Dell shined through as a rising star from a program in San Antonio that has a tremendous history of building a franchise into a championship contender,” said Hornets President Hugh Weber. Weber说：虽然有很多的人选可选择，但是Dell作为一个後起之後却有参与过马刺夺冠的 经历。 "Beginning with the hiring of Head Coach Monty Williams, we’ve begun a path of building our basketball operations with people we feel are going to be the best in the business, and Dell Demps certainly fits into that category. Our owners Mr. Shinn and Mr. Chouest both feel confident that we are developing our organization in a way that will raise expectations. Dell along with Monty share a lot of the same philosophies and work ethic that will help lead our franchise to the next level.” 从雇用Monty Williams作为总教练之後，包含聘请GM球队一直往正确的方向前进。我们的 老板Shinn和Chouest两人也有信心认为这决定将会带领球队往正确的路走。Monty和Dell 两人都有着相同理念，这有助於球队的进步。 If Demps had accepted Phoenix's offer, he would have worked for just hired Lon Babby, who heads the Suns' basketball operations. In New Orleans, Demps is in charge of the Hornets' basketball operations. Demps replaces Jeff Bower, who had served as the Hornets' general manager since 2005. Last Tuesday, the franchise and Bower "mutually agreed to part ways." Demps接下了Jeff Bower留下来的GM位置。 "I’m very happy we were able to consolidate this down to a very short period. The biggest reason that was is that the universe of people with candidates and agents were all in the same place (last week’s Las Vegas Summer League). It saved us flying all around because we do want to meet with people face to face. We’re not the type of organization that reads someone’s name in the newspaper, calls their agent and hires them.’’ 我很高兴新GM的招募很快就定案了，其中最大的原因是Demps和他的经纪人上周都一直在 夏季联盟里。这让我们可以直接面对面的会谈，而不是只能看看报纸上写得那些。 Demps was the only candidate to be interviewed twice last week during the Las Vegas Summer League, which included a dinner meeting with Hornets Coach Monty Williams. Demps是黄蜂上星期再夏季联盟唯一有两次会谈的人选，其中一次还包含总教练Williams 一起的吃晚餐聊聊天。 Demps was briefly a teammate of Williams with the Spurs in 1995-96. Demps, who went undrafted, played three seasons in the NBA with San Antonio, Golden State and Orlando before eventually playing in France, Greece, Croatia, Turkey and the Philippines for seven years. Demps曾经在95-96球季和教练Williams曾经再马刺一起打球过，他在NBA打了三个球季包含 马刺、勇士、魔术，之後又去法国、希腊、克罗埃西亚、土耳其、菲律宾打了七年。 "Dell Demps is a highly respected basketball person who has been around a model organization in San Antonio,” Hornets Owner George Shinn said in a statement. “Gary and I both have the goal to be a great organization and work towards a championship. Dell is the right guy for this position and the future is bright for the New Orleans Hornets.” 老板George Shinn再一份声明中表示：Dell Demps再马刺有很高的威望，Gary和我都希望 球队往像是马刺那样的成就迈进，而Dell是可以带领黄蜂往这条路前进的人选。 Demps is considered to be a well-respected front-office executive, working the past five years for the Spurs and learning under Coach Gregg Popovich, General Manager R.C. Buford and former Spurs assistant general manager Sam Presti, now the Oklahoma City Thunder general manager. Demps also serves as general manager of the Spurs NBA Development League team in Austin, Texas. Demps被认为是马刺优秀的制服组之一，他过去在马刺五年的经历中和Gregg Popovich、 R.C. Buford以及前马刺助理GM现任雷霆GM的Sam Presti等人身旁学习过。同时Demps也是 马刺在发展联盟球队-Austin担任GM工作。 “I’ve known him and seen him work the past seven or eight years in the different avenues of our careers,’’ Williams said. ”Guys like that who have come from successful programs is the type we love that come from success. They bring good stuff that we didn’t have.’’ Williams说：我了解他，看着他过去七八年在不同领域里有着成就。他的成就是我们喜爱 的类型，他可以为我们带来我们所欠缺的东西。 John Reid can be reached at [email protected] or 504.826.3407. http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2010/07/san_antonio_spurs_dell_demps_e_1.h http://0rz.tw/cUYeb --

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