News from June 6. Charlotte promoted Stephen Silas to assistant coach. The NBA announced that Stu Jackson will assume Rod Thorn's duties for the league (most significantly handing out fines and suspensions). Jackson recently joined the league office as senior vice president of basketball operations and Thorn was named as New Jersey president a few days ago. Detroit promoted Joe Dumars to president of basketball operations, re-signed head coach George Irvine to a 3 year, $5.2 million contract, and named Brendan Suhr as director of player personnel.