An iconic interior player for North Carolina from 1995 to 1998, but also for the French championship where he spent nearly seven years between 1999 and 2006, before becoming an agent then a scout, Makhtar Ndiaye had a good start to the weekend. The first Senegalese player to play in the NBA for the Vancouver Grizzlies (1998-1999), the former Knicks scouting director celebrated his son's birthday with some good news, since Insider Marc J Spears leaked the news of his upcoming appointment as director of international scouting and head of personnel for the Mavericks.
Based in Texas for several years, the former interior will thus be able to bring all his experience to this department of the Texan franchise that he knows well, with the aim of continuing to find the right players who will be able to correspond to the needs of his new team, as he explained in particular a month ago. in his last public interventionAt the Knicks, he was notably associated with New York's choice to draft Frank Ntilikina in 2017.
Since 2020, Makhtar Ndiaye has also held the position of GM of the Senegal national team, with another well-known face of the Mavs as coach, DeSagana Diop, a former Dallas player for almost four years, between 2005 and 2009.
