According to league source, Detroit Pistons director of basketball operations Tony Ronzone will become Minnesota's assistant GM next month.
Move is unrelated to departure of Fred Hoiberg, the T-Wolves' former VP of basketball ops who is now head coach at Iowa State.
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Old TIME story on Ronzone from 2004:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101...nextscout.html
Ronzone named USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team's Director Of International Player Personnel
http://www.usabasketball.com/news_ar...zone&page=msnt
TrueHoop story. Sounds like Ronzone likes Synergy (which the Wolves should be using IMO)
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...-scouting-hard
Rockets considered hiring him:
http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress...in_demand.html