WASHINGTON -- Wizards general manager Tommy Sheppard has received a contract extension amid Washington's fast start to the season.
Monumental Sports & Entertainment announced Wednesday that Sheppard and Sashi Brown signed multiyear extensions and received promotions. Sheppard now becomes president and GM of the Wizards. Brown, who has served as a chief planning and operations officer, is now president of Monumental Basketball and special adviser to the office of the CEO at Monumental Sports & Entertainment.
"Tommy has effectively improved our team each year of his tenure by following the plan he laid out to us as his vision when we hired him as general manager, and Sashi has been instrumental in making us a leader in analytics, research and player engagement while efficiently streamlining operations across all of our basketball teams and venues," said Ted Leonsis, the Wizards' owner and founder and CEO of MS&E.