BASKETBALL OPERATIONS BASKETBALL OPERATIONS BASKETBALL OPERATIONS Mickey Loomis - Executive Vice President Mickey Loomis was named Executive Vice players who have played a key role in New Orleans, posting a 67-37 President of the Hornets in June, 2012, overall record through a combination of draft picks and undrafted overseeing the basketball operations of free agents, as well as free agency and trade acquisitions. He’s also the club. presided over the club’s ability to retain their core players, re-signing several significant contributors to long-term contracts. Loomis is also the Executive Vice President/General Manager of the New While his responsibilities have grown during his tenure with the Orleans Saints, responsible for the club’s Saints, Loomis has been a key figure in the highest management entire football operations, entering his 11th circle of the organization since arriving in 2000. Loomis joined the season in his current position and 13th club as Director of Football Administration, a post he held until with the franchise. He is an NFL veteran 2002, handling contract negotiations, managing the salary cap and with over 25 years in the league, and, during his time in New Orleans coordinating different areas of the football operations. has been honored with the most prestigious awards presented to a league executive. The most satisfying achievement of Loomis’ career, In 2005, Loomis helped steer the club through unprecedented however, has been molding the Saints’ roster into a team that has challenges for an NFL team. He calmly guided the staff and players produced many of the franchise’s finest moments over the last six through a sudden evacuation from New Orleans in the wake of seasons, including the Super Bowl XLIV championship. Hurricane Katrina, in addition to several moves of the club’s base of operations. Loomis was promoted to General Manager in 2002 and earned the additional title of Executive Vice President later that year. The In 2003, Loomis oversaw the renovation of the Saints headquarters, departments under his direction include coaching, player personnel transforming the facility into one of the NFL’s top training complexes and scouting, salary cap management, contract negotiations, athletic with the addition of an indoor practice facility, a new weight room and training, equipment, video and communications. cafeteria. In 2006 - after being the lead in the hiring of Sean Payton, the signing of Prior to arriving in New Orleans, Loomis spent 15 years with the Drew Brees and essentially rebuilding a team that would advance to the Seattle Seahawks, serving as executive vice president from 1992-98. NFC Championship – Loomis was voted the NFL Executive of the Year by He joined the Seahawks in October of 1983 and was promoted to vice Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers of America. He was also honored president/finance in 1990 before being elevated to executive vice by The Sporting News as the George Young Executive of the Year, an president in 1992. award voted on annually by NFL front-office executives and owners. A native of Eugene, Ore., Loomis has a degree in accounting from the Loomis has continued to build on the success of 2006, highlighted by University of Oregon and a Master’s Degree in Sports Administration four postseason appearances, three division titles and the Super Bowl from Wichita State University. Married to Melanie, Loomis has four victory. Over the past six years, he has brought aboard a collection of children: Alex, Katherine, Sam and Lucy. 20 BASKETBALL OPERATIONS BASKETBALL OPERATIONS Dell Demps - Sr. Vice President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Dell Demps begins his third season with New Orleans after being named the seventh General Manager in Hornets history on July 21, 2010. It is Demps’ first stint as General Manager of an NBA franchise. In Demps’ first season with the Hornets, the team made the 2011 playoffs after missing the postseason the year prior. In his two seasons at the helm, Demps has completely overhauled the roster he inherited in the summer of 2010 and has built a young nucleus of players, none of whom are older than 25 years. Demps, 42, joined the Hornets after five seasons with the San Antonio Spurs and three years as the General Manager of the Spurs’ NBA Developmental League affiliate, the Austin Toros. Demps joined the Spurs at the start of the 2005-06 season as Director of Pro Player Personnel and was promoted to Vice President of Basketball Operations in 2010. With the Spurs, Demps won an NBA Championship (2007). In each of the five seasons that he was with San Antonio, the team won at least 50 games. Prior to joining the Spurs, Demps worked for the New York Knicks from 2003 to 2005 where he joined the organization as a scout and was promoted to the Director of Pro Player Personnel. Demps also spent two seasons as an assistant coach with the Mobile Revelers in the NBA Developmental League from 2001-2003 and, during the 2002-03 season, helped the team win the Developmental League Championship. Demps attended the University of the Pacific where he was a four-year starter on their basketball team, earning All-Big West honors three times. As a senior, he averaged 19.0 points and 5.8 rebounds and earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration. While playing professionally, each summer, Demps returned to Pacific to take continue his education. After suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in 1998, he returned to school and completed his MBA. Demps is currently a member of Pacific’s Eberhardt School of Business Advisory Board. He was also elected to the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. Demps had a 10-year basketball career where he played all over the world. He played for three seasons in the NBA with Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs and the Orlando Magic. In addition, he played professionally in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), Philippines, France, Greece, Turkey, Croatia and Venezuela. Demps, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and his wife, Anita, have three sons, Jourdan (21), Tre (19), and Riley (12). Jourdan attends the University of Texas-San Antonio, Tre attends Northwestern University and Riley is a 6th grader at Isidore Newman School. Anita is a 1998 graduate of Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. Demps in the NBA/NBA Developmental League Front Office Year Title 2001-02 Assistant Coach-Mobile Revelers 2002-03 Assistant Coach-Mobile Revelers 2003-04 Scout-New York Knicks 2004-05 Scout/Director of Pro Player Personnel-New York Knicks 2005-06 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs 2006-07 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs 2007-08 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs/General Manager-Austin Toros (D-League) 2008-09 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs/General Manager-Austin Toros (D-League) 2009-10 Director of Pro Player Personnel-San Antonio Spurs/General Manager-Austin Toros (D-League) 2010-11 Senior Vice President and General Manager-New Orleans Hornets 2011-12 Senior Vice President and General Manager-New Orleans Hornets 2012-13 Senior Vice President and General Manager-New Orleans Hornets 21 BASKETBALL OPERATIONS BASKETBALL OPERATIONS Monty Williams - Head Coach On June 7, 2010, Monty Williams was appointed head coach of the New Orleans Hornets. Williams’ began his first stint as a head coach with a successful season in 2010-11, leading the Hornets to a 46-36 record and the seventh seed in the 2011 NBA playoffs. In post-season play, the Hornets pushed former NBA-champion Lakers to six games and Williams placed seventh in coach of the year voting, after being named the NBA’s Western Conference Coach of the Month for January of 2011. In his sophomore campaign, Williams managed 22 different players and 26 different starting lineups through an injury- plagued season where six players missed upwards of 15 games due to injury or illness. Through it all, Williams’ squad increased its wins in every month from January to April, and closed out the regular season with a 6-1 stretch at the New Orleans Arena. Williams spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. At the date of his hiring, Williams became the youngest head coach in the NBA at 38 years old. Williams is one of the promising young coaches in the NBA. Trail Blazers Head Coach Nate McMillan charged Williams with running the team’s 2007 and 2008 entries into the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. The two teams featured young Trail Blazers prospects Greg Oden, LaMarcus Aldridge, Jerryd Bayless and Nicolas Batum. During his time with the Trail Blazers, Williams spent a great deal of time working with Travis Outlaw and Martell Webster. He focused on consistency, instilling intensity and purpose every day in practice, as well as in games. Before being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2009-10 season, Outlaw increased his scoring and rebounding average twice in four seasons during Williams’ tenure. Webster and Williams both entered their first 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 during Williams’ time in Portland. 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 Mountain Revue. Selected by New York in the first round (24th overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft, Williams was a nine-year veteran of the NBA before chronic knee problems forced him into retirement in 2003.