The Brooklyn Nets announced basketball operations promotions and additions entering the 2019-20 season. Tiago Splitter has been promoted to player development coach, J.R. Holden has been added as director of player personnel, Daniel Jones joins the team as physical performance coach and Ryan Forehan-Kelly will assume the role of player development coordinator.

Splitter enters his second season with the Nets after serving as a pro scout, with added responsibilities related to player on-court development, in the 2018-19 season. A seven-year NBA veteran, Splitter joined the San Antonio Spurs for the 2010-11 season after being drafted by the team in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft. Splitter played five seasons in San Antonio, helping the Spurs win an NBA championship in 2014 before completing the final two seasons of his career in Atlanta and Philadelphia. 

Holden joins the Nets 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). The Pittsburgh, Pa., native played professionally for 13 years (1998-2011), including nine years (2002-11) with CSKA Moscow, where he was a part of nine straight Russian League championship teams. Holden also appeared in eight straight EuroLeague Final Fours, winning two titles, and was named to the EuroLeague’s 2001-10 All-Decade Team. The Bucknell University alum became a Russian citizen in 2003 and helped lead Russia to the FIBA EuroBasket 2007 championship.  

Jones moves to Brooklyn after spending the past six years as head strength coach for the North Melbourne Football Club in Australia. Prior to his most recent role, Jones served as the club’s rehabilitation coordinator in addition to the team’s academy physical performance and rehabilitation coordinator. Concurrently, Jones worked in a part-time role for the Werribee Football Club from 2015-16 as its high performance manager and for the North Ballarat Roosters Football Club as head of strength and conditioning from 2010-15. Jones earned a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science degree from the University of Ballarat in Australia in 2011, followed by a Master of Exercise Science from Edith Cowan University in 2013. 

Forehan-Kelly has been named to his current role following two seasons with Brooklyn’s NBA G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. He spent last season as Long Island’s associate head coach after spending the season prior as an assistant coach. Forehan-Kelly originally joined the Nets organization in 2016 as a Brooklyn video seasonal assistant on Kenny Atkinson’s staff.