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NEW ERA BASKETBALL OPERATIONS MICKEY LOOMIS OWNERSHIP EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/BASKETBALL OPERATIONS Mickey Loomis was named Executive Vice President of the New Orleans Pelicans in June, 2012, overseeing the basketball operations of the club. Loomis is also the Executive Vice President/General Manager of the New Orleans Saints, responsible for the club’s entire football operations, entering his 12th season in his current position and 14th with the franchise. He is ADMINISTRATION a veteran of over 26 years in the NFL and during his time in New Orleans has been honored with the most prestigious awards presented to a league executive. Yet the most satisfying achievement of Loomis’ career has come in helping mold a roster that has produced many of the franchise’s finest moments over the last six seasons, including the Super Bowl XLIV championship. Loomis was promoted to General Manager in 2002 and earned the additional title of Executive Vice President later that year. The departments under his direction include coaching, player personnel and scouting, salary cap management, contract negotiations, athletic training, equipment, video and communications. In 2006 - after being the key figure in the hiring of Sean Payton, the signing of Drew Brees and essentially OPS BBALL rebuilding a team that would advance to the NFC Championship – Loomis was voted the NFL Executive of the Year by Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers of America. He was also honored by the Sporting News as the George Young Executive of the Year, an award voted on annually by NFL front-office executives and owners. Loomis has continued to build on the success of 2006, highlighted by four postseason appearances, three division titles and the Super Bowl victory. Over the past six years, he has brought aboard a collection of players who have played a key role in New Orleans posting a 67-37 overall record through a combination of the draft, PLAYERS free agency and trades. He’s also presided over the club’s ability to retain their core players, re-signing several significant contributors to long-term contracts. While his responsibilities have grown during his tenure with the Saints, Loomis has been a key figure in the highest management circle of the organization since arriving in 2000. Loomis joined the club as Director of Football Administration, a post he held until 2002, handling contract negotiations, managing the salary cap and coordinating different areas of the football operations. 2012-13 In 2005, Loomis helped steer the club through unprecedented challenges for an NFL team. He calmly guided the staff and players through a sudden evacuation from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in addition to several moves of the club’s base of operations. In 2003, Loomis oversaw the renovation of Saints headquarters that added an indoor practice facility, new weight TEAM HISTORY room and cafeteria, giving the club one of the NFL’s top training complexes. Prior to arriving in New Orleans, Loomis spent 15 years with the Seattle Seahawks, including as executive vice president from 1992-98. He joined the Seahawks in October, 1983, was promoted to vice president/finance in 1990 and to executive vice president in 1992. A native of Eugene, Ore., Loomis has a degree in accounting from the University of Oregon and a Master’s Degree in Sports Administration from Wichita State University. Married to Melanie, Loomis has four children: Alex, Katherine, Sam, and Lucy. RECORDS OPPONENTS DEBBIE GALLAGHER Executive Assistant to the Executive Vice President/ General Manager MISC MEDIA 35 NEW ERA BASKETBALL OPERATIONS BASKETBALL OPERATIONS NEW ERA DELL DEMPS MONTY WILLIAMS OWNERSHIP SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS/ HEAD COACH GENERAL MANAGER On June 7, 2010, Monty Williams was appointed head coach of the New Dell Demps begins his fourth season with New Orleans after being named Orleans Pelicans. Williams’ first season as a head coach was a very the seventh General Manager in franchise history on July 21, 2010. It is successful one, leading New Orleans to a 46-36 record and the seventh seed OWNERSHIP Demps’ first stint as General Manager of an NBA franchise. In Demps’ first in the 2011 NBA playoffs where the team pushed the former NBA-champion season with New Orleans, the team made the 2011 playoffs after missing Lakers to six games. Williams placed seventh in Coach of the Year voting ADMINISTRATION the postseason the year prior and was named the NBA’s Western Conference Coach of the Month for January of 2011. Demps, 43, joined the Pelicans after five seasons with the San Antonio Spurs and three years as the General Manager of the Spurs’ NBA Develop- In his sophomore campaign, Williams managed 22 different players and 28 mental League affiliate, the Austin Toros. Demps joined the Spurs at the start of the 2005-06 season as Director different starting lineups through an injury-plagued season where six players of Pro Player Personnel and was promoted to Vice President of Basketball Operations in 2010. With the Spurs, missed upwards of 15 games due to injury or illness. Through it all, Williams’ squad increased its wins in every Demps won an NBA Championship (2007). In each of the five seasons that he was with San Antonio, the team month from January to April, and closed out the regular season with a 6-1 stretch at the New Orleans Arena. won at least 50 games. Prior to joining the Spurs, Demps worked for the New York Knicks from 2003 to 2005 His work was recognized as he finished T-11th in Coach of the Year voting, the highest finisher among non- player coaches. In his third and most recent season with New Orleans, Williams oversaw the development of the ADMINISTRATION where he joined the organization as a scout and was promoted to the Director of Pro Player Personnel. Demps second youngest team in the NBA, developing Anthony Davis into a solid Rookie of the Year candidate and Ryan also spent two seasons as an assistant coach with the Mobile Revelers in the NBA Developmental League from OPS BBALL 2001-2003 where the Revelers captured the 2003 Developmental League championship. Anderson into a Sixth Man of the Year candidate. Prior to his New Orleans tenure, Williams spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach for the Portland Demps attended the University of the Pacific where he was a four-year starter on their basketball team, earning Trail Blazers. As of the date hired, Williams became the youngest head coach in the NBA at 38 years old. All-Big West honors three times. As a senior, he averaged 19.0 points and 5.8 rebounds and earned his bach- elor’s degree in business administration. While playing professionally, each summer he returned to Pacific and Williams is one of the promising young coaches in the NBA. Trail Blazers Head Coach Nate McMillan charged completed his Master’s in Business Administration in 1998. Demps is currently a member of Pacific’s Eberhardt Williams with running the team’s 2007 and 2008 entries into the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. The two BBALL OPS BBALL teams featured young Trail Blazers prospects Greg Oden, LaMarcus Aldridge, Jerryd Bayless and Nicolas Batum. School of Business Advisory Board. He was also elected to the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. PLAYERS During his time with the Trail Blazers, Williams spent a great deal of time working with Travis Outlaw and Martell Demps had a 10-year basketball career where he played all over the world. He played for three seasons in Webster. He focused on consistency, instilling intensity and purpose every day in practice, as well as in games. the NBA with Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs and the Orlando Magic. In addition, he played profes- Before being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2009-10 season, Outlaw increased his scoring and sionally in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), Philippines, France, Greece, Turkey, Croatia and rebounding average twice in four seasons during Williams’ tenure. Webster and Williams both entered their first Venezuela. PLAYERS season with the Trail Blazers in 2005-06. Like Outlaw, Webster saw numerous improvements in a number of statistical categories, including points, rebounds per game, and field-goal percentage. 2012-13 Demps in the NBA/NBA Developmental League Front Office Prior to joining the Trail Blazers, he won an NBA Championship as a coaching staff intern with the San Antonio Spurs in 2004-05, and during the summer of 2005, coached the Spurs’ Summer League entry in the Rocky Year Title 2012-13 Mountain Revue. 2001-02 Assistant Coach-Mobile Revelers 2002-03 Assistant Coach-Mobile Revelers Selected by New York in the first round (24th overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft, Williams was a nine-year veteran TEAM HISTORY 2003-04 Scout-New York Knicks of the NBA before chronic knee problems forced him into retirement in 2003. Hailing from Notre Dame, Williams 2004-05 Scout/Director of Pro Player Personnel-New York Knicks played for the Knicks, San Antonio, Denver, Orlando and Philadelphia. His best season was with the Spurs in 2005-06 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs 1996-97, when he averaged 9.0 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 65 games and shot 50.9% from the field. 2006-07 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs In 456 career games, he averaged 6.3 points per game. 2007-08 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs/General Manager-Austin Toros (D-League) He was an honorable mention All-American at Notre Dame after averaging 22.4 points and 8.4 rebounds during 2008-09 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs/General Manager-Austin Toros (D-League) his senior season.