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The San Antonio Spurs recently announced additions and promotions within the team’s basketball operations staff.

The Spurs have added Mike Noyes as assistant coach/director of player development. In addition, San Antonio has promoted Josh Larson to Austin Spurs general manager and Gorgui Dieng to assistant general manager of the Austin Spurs.

Noyes joins the Spurs coaching staff after spending the past six seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies, most recently as a player development coach. He got his start with the Grizzlies as a data scientist in 2018 before transitioning to video coordinator. A native a Granby, Connecticut, Noyes attended the University of Connecticut where he started as a practice player for the Huskies basketball team before becoming a walk-on his junior season and was awarded a scholarship his senior year. He earned his degree in math/actuarial science from UConn in 2017.

Larson’s promotion to Austin Spurs general manager comes after spending the past two seasons as the team’s basketball operations manager. In that role he assisted in Austin Spurs roster building and day-to-day basketball operations, as well as player evaluation for the G League. Larson got his start with the Spurs in 2019 as a basketball operations quality assurance assistant. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Larson served as student manager for the Fighting Illini basketball team from 2015-19.

Dieng becomes Austin Spurs assistant general manager in his second season in the front office with the organization. Last year, Dieng served as a basketball operations representative after announcing his retirement from the NBA. A native a Kébémer, Senegal, Dieng spent part of two seasons with the Spurs, averaging 4.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 47 games. The 10-year veteran also played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks, appearing in 628 games over his career and averaging 7.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 20.1 minutes. In 2015 he set up the Gorgui Dieng Foundation, which provides aid including medical equipment and supplies to improve healthcare in his native Senegal. In 2019 he received the Offseason NBA Cares Community Assist Award.