- Rod Thorn
Rodney King "Rod" Thorn (born
May 23 ,1941 , inPrinceton, West Virginia ) is the president and general manager of the NBA'sNew Jersey Nets .A highly-regarded high school athlete in both
basketball andbaseball , Thorn attendedWest Virginia University , where he was an All-American guard in basketball, as well as playing three seasons on the WVU baseball team.In the
1963 NBA Draft , Thorn was the second player selected overall, drafted by the Baltimore Bullets. He was named to theNBA All-Rookie Team , but was traded by the Bullets following his first season. After brief stints with Detroit and St. Louis, he concluded his career as a player with theSeattle SuperSonics (1967-71).After retiring, Thorn stayed with the SuperSonics as assistant coach and graduated from the
University of Washington with a degree in political science.In 1973, former teammate
Kevin Loughery hired Thorn as assistant coach of theNew York Nets of theAmerican Basketball Association . The Nets won the 1974 ABA championship, led byJulius Erving .Thorn later became head coach of another ABA team, the
Spirits of St. Louis in 1975, but after a 20-27 start he was fired in the middle of the season in December 1975 and replaced byJoe Mullaney for the remainder of the season.In 1978, Thorn became the general manager of the
Chicago Bulls and was instrumental in the team's selection ofMichael Jordan in the 1984 draft. He also selected track starCarl Lewis much later in the same draft, mostly for publicity purposes; Lewis would never play for the Bulls. Thorn served briefly as interim head coach of the Bulls in 1981-82.From
1986 to2000 Thorn was the NBA's Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations.Thorn rejoined the Nets organization on June 2, 2000, and he was named the NBA Executive of the Year in
2002 after the Nets advanced to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history.
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