Williams Grad Joins Front Office of San Antonio Spurs

Williams Grad Joins Front Office of San Antonio Spurs

SAN ANTONIO, Texas —Williams College alumnus Will Hardy, who graduated this year, would likely admit that his chances of making the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs as a player were greater than a million to one. His chances of getting a spot on the basketball operations side of things with the Spurs, in the general manger’s office, were only 1 in 70. That comes to about a 1.5 percent chance of getting hired, which is much better than one in a million.



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A key role player for the Ephs for four years, Hardy will have a chance to put his experience as a player who neded to be ready for any situation to good use in the highly competitive NBA, where he’ll be involved with all aspects of basketball operations with the Spurs. Hardy’s title is basketball operations iIntern.

In the NBA there are two sides of the business – Business Operations (sales and marketing) and Basketball Operations (team support, player development, and whatever else it takes to prepare the team to compete).

Hardy’s main duties will revolve around managing the Spurs’ scouting database of top college players, current NBA players the Spurs are looking at for trade possibilities, and international players. “I’m ready to do anything they ask me to do,” notes Hardy. “They need someone to run to the airport, I’m on it. I just want to get in there and learn the business.”

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