After spending two years out of the NBA, David Griffin is back in the executive’s chair.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Griffin is set to be named the new President of Basketball Operations of the New Orleans Pelicans.
David Griffin is finalizing a deal to become the next President of Basketball Operations with the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 12, 2019
Griffin presided over the majority of the second LeBron James era in Cleveland, and built the Cavalier team that won the 2016 Finals. He will hope to bring similar success to a New Orleans organization that has seen little of it.
Griffin’s first and most important task as the team’s new president will be finding a resolution to the messy Anthony Davis sideshow. He could certainly use it as an opportunity to bring in a new core of players to build around if he can pull off the right trade.
