{"id":831095,"date":"2026-09-09T00:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/831095\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:27:17","slug":"report-wizards-promote-amber-nichols-to-vp-of-basketball-operations-and-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/831095\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wizards promote Amber Nichols to VP of Basketball Operations and Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> have promoted Amber <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/teams\/nichols-college\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nichols<\/a> to vice president of basketball operations and player personal, HoopsHype&#8217;s Michael Scotto reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols previously served as the Wizards&#8217; director of amateur evaluation. Before that role, she served as general manager of the Capital City Go-Go \u2014 <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a>&#8216;s G League affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Wizards general manager Will Dawkins praised Nichols&#8217; role in the team&#8217;s draft evaluation process. The Wizards selected <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/players\/342545\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Dybantsa<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaab\/players\/169403\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Okpara<\/a> in the 2026 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards have promoted Amber Nichols to vice president of basketball operations and player personal, HoopsHype&#8217;s Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[98629,7,13940,14006,24060,568,98630,7057,6,66128,98631,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-831095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-amber-nichols","tag-basketball","tag-capital-city","tag-college-park-skyhawks","tag-dc","tag-getty-images","tag-league-playoff","tag-michael-scotto","tag-nba","tag-nbae","tag-nichols","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117238251089847049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}