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Dallas Mavericks co-interim general managers Matt Riccardi, left, and Michael Finley talk during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics at American Airlines Center, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in Dallas.<\/p>\n
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In addition to adding Dusty May and new coaching staff<\/a>, the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> have also overhauled\u00a0their front office.\u00a0<\/p>\n Most notably, the team announced Thursday<\/a> a new title for former Co-Interim General Manager Michael\u00a0Finley<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 15-year NBA player who spent nine seasons in Dallas will now serve as the franchise’s Senior Director of Player, Community and Alumni Engagement, where he will provide support to the front office and focus on strengthening relationships among Mavericks players, alumni and the North Texas community. Finley has served in the Mavericks front office since 2013. \u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Nico Berg, a physiotherapist with experience across the NBA, NFL and NHL, was also named Executive Director of Health and Performance.\u00a0Berg most recently served as the co-owner and physiotherapist at Lynn Valley Orthopedic and Sports Physiotherapy. Additionally, Berg previously worked with the Minnesota Timberwolves (2010-14) as a consultant specializing in core strength, performance and injury prevention.<\/p>\n Other\u00a0hirings and new roles include:<\/p>\n Director of Basketball Operations: Tim Chung, who spent the past three seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies as the Senior Manager of Basketball Logistics and Operations and the eight years prior to that with the Toronto Raptors organization.<\/p>\n Vice President of Global Talent Identification & International Affairs: Patrick\u00a0Engelbrecht, who has more than 13 years of experience with the Toronto Raptors. Most recently, he served as director of global scouting & international affairs in Toronto.<\/p>\n Mavericks’ Manager of Scouting, Texas Legends’ Assistant General Manager: Ijeoma Ofomata will begin a dual role after spending the past three years with the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Assistant General Manager: Matt\u00a0Redfield, who spent the past\u00a0five seasons (2021-26) as Senior Director of Strategy and Analytics with the Toronto Raptors. Before his time with the Raptors, Redfield served as the director of AI products at Second Spectrum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Senior Director, Basketball Salary Cap & Strategy: Blaise Ross joins Dallas after spending the last five years at the NBA league office. There, he served as associate vice president and senior associate counsel, Player Matters.<\/p>\n Director of Global Player Strategy: Joseph\u00a0Tipton, who brings a background spanning professional sports, investment and entertainment. Tipton most recently was an investor at Helios (London), where he helped grow sports leagues, music IPs and entertainment infrastructure.<\/p>\n Director of Africa\/Player Development & Scouting: Joe\u00a0Touomou, who brings more than 25 years of international basketball and sports development experience.\u00a0Most recently, he served as the technical director of NBA Academy Africa, where he identified and developed elite talent while helping grow the game across the continent.<\/p>\n Director of Mind Health: Ally Wade, a licensed psychologist for Dallas Mental Health and Performance for the past three years.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The Mavericks also announced the hires of Katie\u00a0Babcock (Massage Therapist\/Athletic Trainer), Chef John Bauer (Director of Culinary Operations), Kevin Clerkley (Assistant Athletic Trainer), Erica French (Mavericks Performance Kitchen General Manager), Matt McGann (Video Scouting Manager), Ron Meikle (pro scout), Justin Serresse (global scout) and Dame Wall (player development).<\/p>\n The club has promoted Marc Oelkers to Senior Manager of Basketball Systems and DJ Sewell to Manager of Basketball Cap & Strategy, Associate Counsel.<\/p>\n Julia Bateman and Cole Emanuel begin new roles as Special Assistant to President Masai Ujiri and Special Assistant to the Head Coach, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks co-interim general managers Matt Riccardi, left, and Michael Finley talk during the first half of an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[1297,7,686,149,4057,166,6,96691,98352],"class_list":["post-842987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-article","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-tp-masai-ujiri","tag-tp-dusty-may"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117327680652196520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842987","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=842987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n