David Kahn not only has remade the team’s roster, coaching staff and is swapping out fabrics and furniture in the team’s new weight room and players’ lounge.

He also has swapped personnel around in the team’s front office, promoting Fred Hoiberg from assistant general manager to vice president of basketball operations.

Hoiberg will oversee the department’s daily operations and report directly to Kahn.

While he ascends, general manager Jim Stack has returned home to Chicago and will become a regional scout along with former assistant coach Dean Cooper.

Kahn elected to move personnel around to different jobs rather than send employees with contracts home to collect their money.  Former assistant coach Jerry Sichting becomes the director of pro player scouting and will oversee scouting NBA players as the team approaches next summer’s awaited free-agency period.

Rob Babcock becomes director of scouting/administration and Zarko Durisic is the new director of college and European player personnel. Amy Peterson is the director of team operations.

The only person who has left the organization is former assistant coach Ed Pinckney, who has accepted the Philadelphia 76ers television analyst job.

Milt Barnes — a Gophers assistant coach during the Clem Haskins era — is one of the team’s regional scouts, along with Stack and Cooper. The others: Pete Philo, Derek Pierce and J.T. Prada.

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