The Cleveland Cavaliers are keeping the promotion in-house, naming Brandon Weems their new general manager under president Koby Altman after Mike Gansey left for a president of basketball operations role in Philadelphia.
Weems has spent the last 11 years in the organization, climbing through scouting and personnel jobs before reaching assistant GM in 2022. Now he moves into the top front-office seat beneath Altman on September 18.
His path to this point has been a long one. A 2008 graduate of Walsh University, Weems earned his Master of Science at the University of Kentucky. He worked as a graduate assistant with the men’s basketball team there, then stayed on for another year as assistant director of basketball operations.
From there, he moved into coaching, taking Division I assistant jobs at Drexel in Philadelphia for one season and then Oakland University for two seasons. By 2015, he had built a resume that stretched across both the bench and the front office.
That same year, Weems joined the Cavaliers as a scout, and that’s where his rise really took off. He spent two years in that role before becoming director of scouting, a position he held from 2017 to 2021. After that, he was promoted again to senior director of player personnel, and six months later he stepped up to assistant GM.
He’s held that assistant GM job for the past four years, working alongside Gansey and Altman while the front office handled the usual mix of roster-building decisions. Now the responsibilities get even bigger.
According to the source report, one of Weems’ key tasks will be managing the financial side and helping ensure the end-of-season roster is set for the playoffs. That includes navigating guarantee dates for Craig Porter Jr and Mario Hezonja, as well as determining the team’s direction ahead of the trade deadline.
For Cleveland, it’s a familiar name taking on a bigger role. For Weems, it’s the latest step in a steady climb that started with scouting and has now taken him all the way to the top of the organization’s basketball operations ladder.
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