Former UConn women’s basketball forward Asjha Jones will leave her position as assistant coach with the Washington Mystics to become the Portland Trail Blazer’s director of basketball strategy, the Mystics announced.
Jones is the second former Husky to join an NBA front office on a full-time basis along with Swin Cash, the New Orleans Pelicans’ vice president of basketball operations and team development. Sue Bird also spent the 2018-19 season with the Denver Nuggets as a basketball operations associate.
Previously, Jones spent the last three seasons with the Mystics as a player development assistant in 2018 and 2019 and a full-time assistant in 2020 following a successful career as a player in the WNBA.