Wizards’ GM Tommy Sheppard Gets Extension Amid Fast Start

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wizards wide manager Tommy Sheppard has received a declaration hold amid Washington’s accelerated commencement to the season.

Monumental Sports & Entertainment announced Wednesday that Sheppard and Sashi Brown signed multiyear extensions and received promotions. Sheppard present becomes president and GM of the Wizards. Brown, who has served arsenic a main readying and operations officer, is present president of Monumental Basketball and peculiar advisor to the bureau of the CEO astatine Monumental Sports & Entertainment.

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“Tommy has efficaciously improved our squad each twelvemonth of his tenure by pursuing the program helium laid retired to america arsenic his imaginativeness erstwhile we hired him arsenic wide manager and Sashi has been instrumental successful making america a person successful analytics, probe and subordinate engagement portion efficiently streamlining operations crossed each of our hoops teams and venues,” said Ted Leonsis, the Wizards’ proprietor and laminitis and CEO of MS&E.

The Wizards were 10-3 entering Wednesday night’s crippled astatine Charlotte, the champion grounds successful the Eastern Conference and their champion commencement since 1974-75.

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Washington hired Wes Unseld Jr. arsenic its caller manager successful the offseason and traded Russell Westbrook to the Los Angeles Lakers successful a blockbuster that brought Kyle Kuzma, Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to the Wizards. Washington besides acquired defender Spencer Dinwiddie successful different determination that’s paid dividends.

“I americium honored to correspond this enactment and tremendously grateful for the accidental to proceed gathering this squad successful bid to usage what we execute some connected and disconnected the tribunal to uplift the community,” Sheppard said. “Our staff, and their dedication to moving together, has been indispensable to our success, and we volition proceed to enactment hard, travel our program and marque our fans arrogant of the squad we enactment connected the floor.”

Sheppard is successful his 19th play with the organization. Prior to being named GM, helium was elder vice president of hoops operations from 2013-2019 and vice president of hoops operations from 2003-13.

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Brown, a erstwhile GM of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, volition lead various operations for the Wizards, the WNBA’s Washington Mystics and the G League’s Capital City Go-Go — including probe and accusation systems, technology, equipment, squad communications, finance, facilities, information and subordinate engagement. He volition besides oversee MS&E’s venue operations.