CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte Bobcats have hired former Portland general manager Rich Cho for the same job and are promoting Rod Higgins to president of basketball operations.
The team announced the move late Monday, just over a week before the NBA draft and three weeks after Cho was fired by the Trail Blazers.
Cho was on the job in Portland less than a year, but brokered a trade with Higgins and the Bobcats in February that sent Gerald Wallace to the Blazers. In Charlotte, he’ll assist Higgins and owner Michael Jordan in the basketball operations of a franchise that’s made the playoffs just once in seven seasons.
Cho became the NBA’s first Asian GM last year when he was hired away from Oklahoma City’s front office.
