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MiCHael Zarren<br />
BASKETBALL OPERATIONS<br />
Assistant General Manager & Team Counsel<br />
A lifelong Celtics fan and season ticket holder, Michael Zarren is now the Celtics’<br />
Assistant General Manager and Team Counsel. Now in his eighth year with the team<br />
after starting as an unpaid intern, Zarren is widely recognized as one of the leaders<br />
in the field of advanced statistical analysis of basketball players and teams, and is<br />
an important part of the team’s strategic planning and player personnel evaluation<br />
processes. Zarren is also the team’s salary cap expert and lead in-house counsel (for<br />
both basketball and business-side issues), and is responsible for the development of<br />
new technologies for team use, including the team’s best-in-class statistical database<br />
and video archive/delivery system.<br />
A graduate of Harvard Law School (where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology)<br />
and of the University of Chicago, Zarren has also served as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth<br />
Circuit. Zarren was also previously a management consultant for Fortune 500 firms across a wide variety of industries.<br />
A native of Swampscott, Zarren is a member of the bars of New York and Massachusetts and of the Board of Overseers<br />
of The Waring School.<br />
ryan MCdonouGH • Assistant General Manager<br />
Ryan McDonough is entering his second season as the Assistant General Manager.<br />
He was named to the position in September 2010 after spending two seasons as<br />
the team’s Director of Player Personnel, one season as the Director of International<br />
Scouting; one season as Director of Amateur Scouting and four years as a Special<br />
Assistant to Basketball Operations.<br />
McDonough assists Predsident of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge on all basketball<br />
related matters, focusing primarily on evaluating college and international<br />
players for the <strong>NBA</strong> Draft.<br />
Ryan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 2002 with a degree in Journalism<br />
& Mass Communication.<br />
McDonough grew up in Hingham, Massachusetts and currently resides in Boston.
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