Aces two-time executive of the year hired away from team

Reigning two-time WNBA Executive of the Year Dan Padover is leaving the Aces to articulation the Atlanta Dream’s beforehand office.

Padover, who served arsenic the Aces wide manager of hoops operations, volition presume a akin relation with the Dream arsenic they sanction him wide manager and enforcement vice president of hoops operations, the squad announced Monday.

“We acceptable retired to make a enactment radical with acquisition gathering winning teams underpinned by a values-based culture,” Larry Gottesdiener, proprietor and president of the Dream said successful a statement. “Dan is 1 of the astir well-respected executives successful the WNBA with a way grounds that speaks for itself.”

Padover has spent 10 years successful the WNBA with stints successful Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey earlier being hired by the Aces successful December 2018. The Aces had the WNBA’s champion grounds successful 2020 and the 2nd champion grounds this past season.

The Aces went connected to suffer successful the WNBA finals to the Seattle Storm successful 2020 and were knocked retired of the playoffs this past play successful Game 5 of their semifinals lucifer up with the Phoenix Mercury.

“To physique an enactment from the crushed up with caller ownership and caller enactment successful a top-ten marketplace similar Atlanta is specified a unsocial and breathtaking opportunity,” Padover successful a statement. “My eventual extremity is to assistance make a exemplary WNBA franchise and bring a title to the city. Rebuilds don’t hap overnight, but this enactment is present uniquely positioned to make a winning culture.”

Padover’s hiring comes arsenic the Dream finalize rebuilding their unit pursuing caller ownership buying the squad successful February.

Aces President Nikki Fargas wasn’t instantly disposable for comment.

Contact Mick Akers astatine makers@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers connected Twitter.