The Milwaukee Bucks are set to hire their next general manager, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and no, it’s not Justin Zanik. It’s Jon Horst, who had served as director of basketball operations and was not mentioned i, at all, until yesterday.
The details are positively juicy, as per Woj. Here are the tweets he sent out on Friday morning.
Sources: After contentious ownership disagreement over search, Bucks closing in on hiring Dir. of Basketball Operations Jon Horst as GM.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) June 16, 2017
Sources: Over past couple of days, ownership has been searching for a veteran NBA executive to pair with Horst in the front office.