Speaker Profile

Dennis Lindsey joined the Dallas Mavericks as a senior advisor at the start of the 2023-24 season. Lindsey previously served as senior basketball advisor for the Utah Jazz following two seasons as executive vice president of basketball operations (2021-23) and seven seasons as the team’s general manager (2012-21).

As general manager, Lindsey added support staff to the team’s basketball operations department, implemented enhanced performance and analytics tracking systems, oversaw a remodel of the Zions Bank Basketball Campus practice facility and led six drafts as the primary day-to-day contact for Jazz basketball operations while assembling a team that reached the Western Conference Semifinals in 2017. Lindsey also helped return NBA summer league basketball to Salt Lake City for the first time since 2008 by organizing and overseeing the Salt Lake City Summer League.

Lindsey came to Salt Lake City after spending five seasons with San Antonio as the Spurs’ vice president and assistant general manager. Over his five seasons with San Antonio, the Spurs compiled a 271-123 (.688) regular season record, third best in the NBA during that span. The Spurs won 50-plus games and advanced to the NBA Playoffs all five seasons, winning three Southwest Division titles, twice finishing with the best record in the Western Conference, and reaching two Western Conference Finals (2008, 2012).

Prior to joining the Spurs, Lindsey spent 11 seasons with the Houston Rockets, serving as the team’s vice president of basketball operations and player personnel (2002-2007). Lindsey originally joined the Rockets as video coordinator/scout in 1996, later serving as director of basketball development and then director of player personnel.

Lindsey earned his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University (1992), where he played guard on the Baylor basketball team for four seasons (1988-92).

He and his wife, Becky, have four children, Jacob, Matthew, Meredith and Jessica Claire.