By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
JR Holden joins the Nets as their new director of player personnel, after spending the 2018-19 season as an international scout with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Prior to his stint with the Sixers, Holden spent four years with the Detroit Pistons as an international scout (2014-16) and the franchise’s director of international scouting (2016-18).
Holden played professionally for 13 years (1998-2011), including nine years (2002-11) with CSKA Moscow, with which he appeared in eight straight EuroLeague Final Fours, winning two titles, and was named to the EuroLeague’s 2001-10 All-Decade Team.
He became a Russian citizen in 2003 and helped lead Russia to the FIBA EuroBasket trophy in 2007.