One day after Marc Stein reported that the Nets were making a last-ditch attempt to keep Jeff Peterson, their long-time assistant GM, Adrian Wojnarowski tweets Thursday that Peterson has been hired over a dozen other candidates to be the Charlotte Hornets head of basketball operations.
Peterson, long seen as a candidate for a GM job, will be, at 35, the league’s youngest lead basketball operations executive...
At 35, Peterson is completing a meteoric rise to become the NBA’s youngest lead front office executive. He emerged for owners Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin out of a search that included interviews with 12 candidates.