Sachin Gupta, the first person hired by Daryl Morey when he became the Rockets general manager, will return to the team as a Special Advisor, the team announced on Friday.
Gupta, who worked informally with the Rockets for six seasons before joining former Rockets vice president Sam Hinkie with the 76ers, worked informally with the Rockets last season.
Morey met Gupta after giving a lecture at MIT when he a Senior Vice President of Operations with the Boston Celtics. Gupta was a computer science and electrical engineering graduate at MIT working as a software engineer for ESPN where he helped develop the ESPN Trade Machine.