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JIM KELLY<br />
Senior Director of Player Personnel<br />
Jim Kelly, in his 15th season with the team, was promoted July 22, 2008 to Senior Director<br />
of Player Personnel. In addition to his prominent scouting role of all college, professional<br />
and international prospects, Kelly has managed the team’s recent free agent camps, draft<br />
workouts and summer league team.<br />
Kelly was elevated to director of player personnel in the summer of 2001. He has more than 30 years of scouting and<br />
coaching experience at the <strong>NBA</strong>, international and collegiate levels.<br />
He joined the Raptors as a scout in 1994, focusing on international scouting activities, following a 10-year coaching<br />
career in the Philippines, Germany, England and Greece. He led TSV Bayer to the German championship in 1985<br />
and the Solent Star of Southampton to their first English National Basketball League title in 1984. Kelly’s previous<br />
<strong>NBA</strong> experience came as the European scout for the Milwaukee Bucks between 1988 and 1991.<br />
Prior to his work in Europe, Kelly had collegiate coaching stints at Marshall, American International, Middlesex C.C.<br />
and Central Connecticut State. Kelly, 51, holds a master’s of science degree from Central Connecticut State where<br />
he captained the basketball team in his senior year.<br />
Kelly and his wife, Lucy, have one son, Kris.<br />
STEVE FRUITMAN<br />
Senior Director of Basketball Administration<br />
Steve Fruitman was promoted to Senior Director of Basketball Administration on<br />
July 22, 2008. He joined the department in 2004 as its director of basketball<br />
operations following four years in the <strong>com</strong>pany as a controller in the finance<br />
department.<br />
Fruitman’s extensive knowledge of the <strong>NBA</strong>’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, insurance programs and<br />
other related business <strong>com</strong>plexities has made him invaluable to the organization. This summer, Fruitman’s<br />
expertise was instrumental with proposing the cap-friendly strategy that allowed the Raptors to acquire<br />
Hedo Turkoglu while retaining the financial flexibility to secure additional players to <strong>com</strong>plement the<br />
roster.<br />
Fruitman is a native of Toronto.<br />
TORONTO RAPTORS 2009-10 PRESEASON
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