David Fredman

During his tenure, Denver has engineered numerous trades and has made quality draft choices which have shifted the Nuggets from a struggling team with no salary cap flexibility, to one of the up-and-coming teams in the NBA. In 2003-04, the Nuggets posted the sixth-biggest turnaround in NBA history, improving their win total by 26 games and reaching the playoffs for the first time since 1995.

Before joining the Nuggets, Fredman spent the previous 27 years with the Utah Jazz franchise and was one of the last two remaining members of the original staff from the New Orleans Jazz. He worked directly in basketball operations for the Jazz for the previous 14 seasons, serving as Director of Scouting/Assistant Coach for the last two. In that capacity, he assisted with draft preparation, contract negotiations and the evaluation of professional, collegiate and international players for Vice President of Basketball Operations Kevin O’Connor and previously working under for Scott Layden, Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

From 1987-99, Fredman was an assistant coach and scout for the club, focusing on advance scouting and game preparation. During his tenure in Utah, the Jazz went to the playoffs 18-straight times, captured six Midwest Division titles and made two trips to the NBA Finals, falling to the Bulls in 1997 and ’98.

The 51-year-old Fredman began working for the expansion New Orleans Jazz as an intern in public relations and ticket sales. He later served as the franchise’s director of public relations, marketing and broadcasting before being promoted to the basketball side by Frank Layden.

He provided color commentary on Jazz television network broadcasts (1980-83), oversaw the Jazz’s operations in Las Vegas when the team played 11 games there in 1983-84, assembled a radio network, produced games on television, co-hosted a Jazz radio talk show and sold advertising.

The native of Marion, Ill., attended Logan Junior College (Carterville, Ill.) and Southern Illinois University before earning a bachelor’s degree in communications from Loyola University (New Orleans, La.). He and his wife, Sheila, are the parents of two children (Lauren – 17, and Michael - 13).

Fredman enjoys reading, traveling, playing golf and fishing in his native Southern Illinois in his spare time.