• Done deal: Ferry GM at Cavaliers • Bethany Hamilton at Surfing USA Championships Done deal: Ferry GM at Cavaliers CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Cavaliers finally have their general manager, and with not a moment to spare. Danny Ferry, who
• Done deal: Ferry GM at Cavaliers
• Bethany Hamilton at Surfing USA Championships
Done deal: Ferry GM at Cavaliers
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Cavaliers finally have their general manager, and with not a moment to spare.
Danny Ferry, who spent the past two years in the front office of the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, has been hired as the Cavaliers’ GM, team spokesman Tad Carper said Monday.
Ferry won’t have much time to settle into his new role since his hiring comes one day before the NBA draft and just a few days before free agency begins. The Cavs have roughly $25 million to spend in the market.
As for the draft, the club doesn’t currently don’t have a pick but have reportedly discussed trading forward Jiri Welsch for a second-round selection. That deal could be easier to make now that the Cavs have Ferry.
Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert has been looking for a GM since firing Jim Paxson a day after the Cavaliers’ season ended without a playoff berth. Gilbert spoke with several other candidates before deciding on Ferry, who has been San Antonio’s director of basketball operations under GM R.C. Buford the past two years.
The 38-year-old Ferry played in a club-record 723 games for the Cavaliers from 1990-2000.
Back in Cleveland, he’ll be reunited with first-year Cavaliers coach Mike Brown, who was an assistant with the Spurs when Ferry spent his last three years as a player in San Antonio.
An All-American at Duke, Ferry was selected with the No. 2 overall pick in 1989 by the Los Angeles Clippers.
Bethany Hamilton at Surfing USA Championships
Bethany Hamilton is among the more than 300 of the best up-and-coming surfers from across the nation that converged at Huntington Beach for the Surfing America USA Championships presented by SIMA competition that started yesterday.
Athletes will compete through Saturday, July 2 for a USA championship title and the chance to represent the United States as part of the 2005 USA Surf Team.
Hosted by Surfing America, the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of surfing in the United States, and presented by the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA), the contest draws athletes from five regional member organizations including Eastern Surfing Association (ESA), Hawai‘i Amateur Surfing Association (HASA), National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA), Texas Gulf Surfing Association (TGSA), and Western Surfing Association (WSA).
