Harrison Barnes spilled the beans in a tweet. B.J. Johnson, the assistant director of Team USA, is joining the Nets as coordinator of player evaluation.
— Harrison Barnes (@hbarnes) August 22, 2016
Barnes beat the Nets official announcement by about an hour. It was one of two scouting announcements the team made Monday morning. The other is the naming of Gianluca Pascucci of the Rockets as director of global scouting.
Johnson who played ball at Villanova (and apparently speaks some Chinese) has been men's national team assistant director at USA Basketball since 2009.