You can cross one name off the Portland Trail Blazers general manager search.
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Utah Jazz have named former Blazers guard and Boston Celtics executive Danny Ainge their new alternate governor and CEO.
The Utah Jazz are hiring Danny Ainge as alternate governor and CEO, sources tell ESPN. Ainge will oversee basketball and Justin Zanik will remain GM.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 15, 2021
The news comes just a little more than six months following Ainge’s retirement from the Celtics.