San Antonio Spurs Promote Sean Marks To Assistant GM

After climbing the organization ladder for the San Antonio Spurs over the past three years, Sean Marks has been promoted into the position of becoming the new assistant general manager, where he will work directly next to general manager R.C. Buford.

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This promotion came after working within the organization and moving up from a basketball operations assistant to the director of basketball operations as well as becoming an on the bench assistant coach to Gregg Popovich during the Spurs’ 2013-14 championship season.

Here’s the official statement from the Spurs:

"The San Antonio Spurs today announced multiple promotions and additions to the basketball operations staff. Sean Marks returns to the front office as an assistant general manager and Brandon James has been promoted to director of basketball administration and legal affairs. Phil Coles has been hired as director of medical services and Marilyn Adams as director of rehabilitation. In addition, Xavi Schelling joins the Spurs as applied sports scientist and Paul West has been named assistant athletic trainer.Marks makes the move back to the front office after spending last season on the Spurs bench as an assistant coach. The Auckland, New Zealand native completed a 12-year NBA career before joining the Silver and Black in 2011 as a basketball operations assistant. He was then promoted to director of basketball operations in September of 2012 before moving to the sidelines for the 2013-14 season."

The reins have passed down from Popovich, who was the general manager and coach of the Spurs alike before handing the GM duties to Buford in 2002. As he will now be able to learn from one of the best general managers in the NBA, in addition to already having experience from being taken under the wing of arguably one of the greatest coaches in history in Popovich, Marks will be moving into the position of possibly running his own team in the near future.

The former 12-year veteran big man shouldn’t have to wait to long before appealing opportunities start to arise with the overwhelming attention that is drawn to the spurs organization on a yearly basis. After gaining a couple years of assistant GM experience under his belt, don’t be surprised to see Marks packing up and taking over for another franchise seeking a change in the front office.