When the Timberwolves hired Gersson Rosas as President of Basketball Operations last week, Rosas became the first Latino to run an NBA front office.
That seems wild, I know. In 2019, it feels like we’d be ahead of that but here we are. But when there are milestones such as this, we must celebrate, but also continue to move forward and advance.
Rosas is an immigrant from Bogota, Colombia, who moved to Houston when he was three years old. The odds were against him.
“There’s not a lot of basketball going on,” Rosas said.
Rosas, at just 40 years old, has worked his way to the peak of the basketball operations side of an NBA team.