Front Office/CBA/Contracts/Marketing Thread

[Elden Payton]

I don't know what happened but the Bobcats sacked BJ Evans.

We need some kind of background info on this.

[Elden Payton]

OP edited to adjust for BJ Evans sacking and staff bios.

http://www.nba.com/bobcats/executive-bios


B.J. EVANS
Vice President of Basketball Communications

B.J. Evans is in his eighth season with the Charlotte Bobcats and his 18th year overall in professional and collegiate sports. Evans, who initially joined the Bobcats as Public Relations Manager in March 2004, oversees the organization’s basketball and business publicity efforts and is the primary liaison between the team and the local, national and international media. He is also responsible for day-to-day media operations and coordinates press conferences and interviews for the team’s players, coaches and front office staff.

Evans was named Director of Media Services in May 2006 and took over the department, which was later changed to Basketball Communications, in December of that year. He was promoted to Vice President of Communications in January 2012.

Prior to joining the Bobcats, Evans spent two seasons as Assistant Director of Sports Media Relations with the Miami Heat and was the Media Relations Manager for the former NBA D-League affiliate Asheville Altitude during the league’s inaugural season, managing all of the team’s media relations functions.

Evans served as Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) for three seasons and served as an NCAA Committee Representative for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament from 1999-2001. Additionally, his experience includes stints as Sports Information Director and Game Operations Manager at North Carolina A&T State University and at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore. During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, he served as Tribune Manager at the inaugural beach volleyball venue.

Evans and his wife, Kyle, have one daughter, Bailey, born in September 2011.

[BlackOutBuzz]

Jerry Zgoda: BIG congratulations to Wolves PR guy Mike Cristaldi, who's leaving next week for Bobcats VP job. Great for him, sad for us. He'll be missed. Twitter @JerryZgoda

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[Elden Payton]

Edited BOB.

Cheers for the heads up.

[mrknowitall215]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/RicBucher/status/348165801569832960[/tweet]

So much praise for these recent Bobcats/Hornets hires lately. It looks like Charlotte is on it's way up in a good way

[fatlever]

who is mike cristaldi and what does he do? background check in 3, 2, 1....

[fatlever]

The team also announced today that Mike Cristaldi has been hired as Vice President of Communications. Cristaldi comes to the Cats from the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he most recently served as Director of Public Relations and Community Relations.

http://www.examiner.com/article/mark-pr ... cations-vp

[mrknowitall215]

So, basically he is replacing B.J. Evans

[KembaWalker]

i think in a few years with our fully rebuilt Hornets playoff team we are gonna look back at this time (2010 and on) as when MJ made the moves that turn his front office reputation around. history will view what we had to do tank wise more favorably i think

[BigSlam]

If this is the guy who was responsible for:

NOISE!!!!!!


Do not want.

[Elden Payton]

Updated with Clifford, Price and Ewing.

Will wait to see what the deal is with our assistants before adding Beyer etc.

[mrknowitall215]

Michael Jordan's brother promoted within Bobcats

Larry Jordan, an older brother of Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan, was promoted to team director of player personnel, several sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Along with Michael Jordan, Larry will answer to team president of basketball operations Rod Higgins and general manager Rich Cho. Larry Jordan's previous job was team director of special projects. He fills a position that was vacant for three years after Buzz Peterson departed to become the head coach at Appalachian State.
Larry and Michael were teammates at Wilmington (N.C.) Laney High School during their senior and junior years, respectively. Michael Jordan credited his brother, who stands 5-feet-8, for helping him become a better player when he was younger through their intense 1-on-1 games.
Michael Jordan's son, Jeffrey, and daughter, Jasmine, are also involved with the Bobcats in lesser roles, sources said.
Larry Jordan played professionally for the World Basketball League's Chicago Express in the league's lone season in 1988.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--micha ... 42278.html

[fatlever]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Uzikag7Xo[/youtube]

[-Ian-]

MJ isn't kidding when he said in the past that he wants his family to be involved in this franchise in the future. Wow.

[vorbis]

this position has been vacant since buzz peterson went to coach app state. i doubt this will affect the basketball team in any way. as such, i don't really care about it, to be honest.

[vorbis]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Uzikag7Xo[/youtube]

i love that track so much

[amcoolio]

Glorified title for the "bitch who has to make all the travel arrangements and make sure the players get fed and coordinate team activities" position.

I always thought that would be a dream job.

[yosemiteben]

Bumping this bad boy - regular season single game tickets went on sale at 10:00 AM this morning. Anyone buying any tickets?

[HornetJail]

Bumping this bad boy - regular season single game tickets went on sale at 10:00 AM this morning. Anyone buying any tickets?

not this far in advance, that's for sure. I'm coming back for the week of thanksgiving and the prices suck.

Ah, if only Charlotte @ Minnesota was on a weekend. Tickets are dirt cheap (as low as $20 for pretty good upper deck seats) in Minnesota but I can't go on a Tuesday night since I still live 6 hours away even though it's the closest NBA team to me.

[SeanBobcats]

How bad are those 200 level seats in the arena? Worth it to go to a game in seats at the highest level? Never been to a game, so I don't know too much about what seats are best value.