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PLAYOFFS RECORDS 10-11 REVIEW PLAYERS BBALL OPS FRONT OFFICE<br />
HISTORY<br />
<strong>NBA</strong><br />
MISC.<br />
BASKETBALL OPERATIONS<br />
16 <strong>2011</strong>-<strong>12</strong> CHARLOTTE BOBCATS MEDIA GUIDE<br />
Rod Higgins<br />
President of Basketball Operations<br />
Rod Higgins was promoted to President of Basketball Operations on June 14, <strong>2011</strong>, after four successful<br />
seasons the team’s General Manager. Higgins, who initially joined the Bobcats as General Manager on<br />
May 31, 2007, brings more than 25 years of <strong>NBA</strong> experience as a player, coach and front office executive<br />
to Charlotte. Higgins manages and oversees all player personnel matters, including professional and<br />
collegiate scouting, draft preparations, training camp, preseason scheduling and the team’s athletic<br />
training, equipment and conditioning programs. Among Higgins’ ac<strong>com</strong>plishments in his tenure with the<br />
Bobcats are the December 2008 acquisition of Boris Diaw, the February 2010 acquisition of Tyrus Thomas<br />
and the June <strong>2011</strong> acquisition of Corey Maggette and the draft rights to Bismack Biyombo, as well as the<br />
drafting of D.J. Augustin (2008), Gerald Henderson (2009) and Kemba Walker (<strong>2011</strong>).<br />
Before joining the Bobcats, Higgins spent three seasons as General Manager of the Golden State Warriors.<br />
Prior to that, he spent three seasons as Assistant General Manager for the Washington Wizards,<br />
where he worked with Bobcats Chairman & CEO Michael Jordan, his one-time teammate with the Bulls.<br />
His responsibilities there included collaborating on all basketball decisions, including transactions<br />
and trades, and working with player personnel and scouting. Before moving to the front office with the<br />
Wizards, Higgins was an assistant coach from 1994-2000 with the Warriors.<br />
In 13 seasons as an <strong>NBA</strong> player, Higgins averaged 9.0 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 779 games<br />
spread between Golden State, Chicago, Seattle, San Antonio, New Jersey, Sacramento and Cleveland.<br />
Originally selected by the Bulls in the second round of the 1982 <strong>NBA</strong> Draft, Higgins appeared in 33<br />
playoff games, averaging 7.9 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists. He spent seven seasons with the<br />
Warriors, including playing the first five games of the 1994-95 campaign for the team before moving to<br />
the bench as an assistant coach on November 19, 1994. Higgins still ranks among the Warriors all-time<br />
leaders in free throw percentage (seventh), three-point field goals (eighth) and three-point field goal<br />
attempts (ninth), as well as among the franchise playoff leaders in three-point field goal attempts (fifth),<br />
three-point field goals (tied for sixth), free throw percentage (seventh), blocked shots (eighth) and steals<br />
(tenth).<br />
Higgins played four years at Fresno State University (1978-82), where he led the Bulldogs in scoring<br />
in each of his last three seasons and guided the team to two PCAA Championships. A First Team All-<br />
Conference selection as both a junior and senior, he earned Honorable Mention All-America honors from<br />
both the Associated Press and The Sporting News as a senior.<br />
Higgins and his wife, Concetta, have two sons, Rick and Cory. Rick works for the Bobcats as a basketball<br />
operations assistant and Cory was a three-time All-Big <strong>12</strong> guard at the University of Colorado before<br />
graduating in May <strong>2011</strong>.
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