Jazz management decided Justin Zanik is the right man to continue the massive rebuild it is undertaking.
As for Zanik’s fate, both Smith and Ainge made it clear at the time that Zanik would be the guy heading up basketball operations, the former noting, “If you’re in the league, everyone knows to call Justin right now,” while the latter spelled out that his role would be different than the one he held with the Boston Celtics: “I’m not going to be the guy that’s running the day-to-day — that’s going to be Justin.
Zanik began his career in basketball as a player agent, first with Priority Sports and Entertainment, then with ASM Sports. He joined the Jazz in 2013 as an assistant general manager. He spent the 2016-17 season in the same capacity with the Milwaukee Bucks, with a promise from management that he was the GM-in-waiting. However, a subsequent change in ownership with that organization scuttled those plans, and the next season, he returned to the Jazz.
that he was pleased to continue working as a cog within the team’s “very collaborative process,” and that his simple goal was “to be the last team standing at the end of the day.
Zanik acknowledged that “The team fell short” of its goals, and that “we need to recalibrate and try to go open up the next window.”
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