Rick Sund was born on June 4,1951 and is a National Basketball Association executive with the Atlanta Hawks.
13 Facts About Rick Sund
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Currently Sund is a "Basketball GM and Scouting" instructor for the online sports-career training school Sports Management Worldwide, founded and run by Dr Lynn Lashbrook.
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Rick Sund speaks annually at the "SMWW Basketball Career Conference".
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Rick Sund began his managerial career in 1974 with the Milwaukee Bucks after graduating from Ohio University with a degree in sports administration.
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Rick Sund holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Northwestern University where he was a two-sport athlete, twice named academic All-Big Ten on the basketball squad, while seeing action as a tight end and wide receiver on the football team.
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Rick Sund helped assemble the first ever Mavericks roster, and for the remainder of his multiple-year tenure around the organization, brought in Brad Davis, Rolando Blackman, Mark Aguirre and others.
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Rick Sund aided the then-rookie general manager of the former Seattle SuperSonics, Wally Walker in 1994.
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Rick Sund then left for the Seattle SuperSonics, running the team for six seasons.
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Rick Sund acquired Maurice Evans and Ronald "Flip" Murray to fill Childress' vacancy.
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Rick Sund re-signed free agents Mike Bibby, Zaza Pachulia, and Marvin Williams.
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Just before the trade deadline, Rick Sund traded the prospect Jordan Crawford, the Hawks' future first-round pick in the 2011 draft, and dumped Bibby and Evans's salaries all to the Washington Wizards for Kirk Hinrich and Hilton Armstrong in return.
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However, Rick Sund re-signed Collins, and added Tracy McGrady, Willie Green, Jannero Pargo, Vladimir Radmanovic, Jerry Stackhouse, and Eric Dampier, all at veterans minimums.
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Since 2012, Rick Sund has been the Hawks senior advisor for basketball operations.