When Orlando Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman took over he changed everything about the team. He truly was a president of basketball operations, getting his hands into everything about the Magic’s front office.
One of the first hires he made was to hire David Tenney as the team’s high performance director.
That seemed like a made-up title for a new position. A combination of buzz words to describe the team’s new head trainer or chief medical staffer.
But Tenney was a big hire — someone who bought into a lot of medical sports science with the Seattle Sounders before a lot of other medical staff professionals.