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Thunder pro evaluation coordinator Paul Johnson interviewed for the general manager position with the expansion Mexico City Capitanes of the NBA G League, according to Marc Spears of ESPN.
The NBA announced in December that it will bring a 29th team into the G League to be based in Mexico City in a landmark partnership with Capitanes, a professional basketball team in Mexico. The team will play its home games at the Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City.
Johnson played collegiately at LaSalle and spent time as a referee operations analyst with the NBA prior to joining the Thunder, according to the report by Spears.
Thunder Pro Evaluation Coordinator Paul Johnson interviewed for the new general manager position for the expansion G-League Mexico City Capitanes on Monday, a source said. The former LaSalle basketball player was also previously a Referee Operations Analyst with the NBA.
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) June 2, 2020
The original plan was for Capitanes to make its debut starting with the 2020-21 season but it is unclear if that has changed based on the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. The team will be the first outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Capitanes, which was established in 2016, currently competes in Mexico’s Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional. Starting next season, Capitanes will play in the NBA G League for an initial term of five years.
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