re: Official Travis Schlenk for GM Thread

He is awesome. I really hope we can get him to come here.

Travis Schlenk

Good little article about him from 13 before GSW blew up.

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“He’s always married technology with the craft, a mixture of art and science,” said Mitch Germann, a former executive with the Sacramento Kings who met Schlenk at Wichita State. “Travis represents that new breed of NBA executive in basketball operations, using big data to make decisions.”

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“Every guy we draft or bring in, we give a personality test,” Schlenk said. “When a team gets along and there’s camaraderie, you see it on the floor.”

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“We lean on him heavily as to what he thinks of a player, how much the player will improve,” Myers said. “Usually, he’s the one on the staff that’s seen the player the most.”

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