The Trail Blazers are making another addition to their front office, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who reports (via Twitter) that Sergi Oliva is coming aboard as an assistant general manager.
Oliva will be the third assistant GM hired by new permanent general manager Joe Cronin in 2022. Portland also brought in Andrae Patterson during the season and reached an agreement earlier this month with ESPN’s Mike Schmitz, who will officially join the team in July. The Blazers reportedly parted ways with assistant GM Bill Branch.
Oliva was part of the Sixers’ front office from 2014-20, beginning as a basketball operations analyst and eventually being promoted to vice president of strategy. He joined the Jazz in 2020 as an assistant coach on Quin Synder‘s staff and has spent the last two years in Utah.
Prior to arriving in the NBA, Oliva spent 12 years coaching at the youth and senior amateur levels in Catalonia and earned a PhD in Computational Complexity.
The Athletic listed Oliva in their “40 Under 40” feature in March, identifying him as one of the NBA’s young coaches/executives to watch.