Lance Blanks

Lance Blanks

Born: September 9, 1966 in Del Rio, Texas

Died: May 3, 2023

High School: McCullough in The Woodlands, Texas

College: Texas

Franchises

In some cases the starting date and/or ending date for an executive could not be found, so conservative estimates are used in their place.
Therefore, transactions from the beginning and/or end of an executive's tenure with a particular franchise may be missing from the register below.

September 24, 2010: Signed Garret Siler as a free agent.

November 16, 2010: Signed Earl Barron as a free agent.

December 18, 2010: Traded Earl Clark, Jason Richardson and Hedo Türkoğlu to the Orlando Magic for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Mickaël Piétrus, cash and a 2011 1st round draft pick (Nikola Mirotić was later selected).

January 9, 2011: Signed Zabian Dowdell to two 10-day contracts, then signed to a contract for the rest of the season.

February 24, 2011: Traded Goran Dragić and a 2011 1st round draft pick (Nikola Mirotić was later selected) to the Houston Rockets for Aaron Brooks.

June 23, 2011: Selected Markieff Morris (1st round, 13th pick) in the 2011 NBA Draft.

December 9, 2011: Signed Sebastian Telfair as a free agent.

December 9, 2011: Signed Shannon Brown as a free agent.

December 13, 2011: Signed Ronnie Price as a free agent.

December 13, 2011: Signed Marcus Landry as a free agent.

December 29, 2011: Signed Michael Redd as a free agent.

June 28, 2012: Selected Kendall Marshall (1st round, 13th pick) in the 2012 NBA Draft.

July 11, 2012: Traded Steve Nash to the Los Angeles Lakers for a 2013 1st round draft pick (Nemanja Nedović was later selected), a 2013 2nd round draft pick (Alex Oriakhi was later selected), a 2014 2nd round draft pick (Johnny O'Bryant was later selected) and a 2018 1st round draft pick (Mikal Bridges was later selected).

July 15, 2012: Signed Luis Scola as a free agent.

July 19, 2012: Signed Goran Dragić as a free agent.

July 20, 2012: Signed Michael Beasley as a free agent.

July 27, 2012: As part of a 3-team trade, the Phoenix Suns traded Robin Lopez, Hakim Warrick and cash to the New Orleans Hornets; the Phoenix Suns traded a 2014 2nd round draft pick (Johnny O'Bryant was later selected) to the Minnesota Timberwolves; the Minnesota Timberwolves traded Wesley Johnson and a 2017 2nd round draft pick (Semi Ojeleye was later selected) to the Phoenix Suns; the New Orleans Hornets traded a 2013 2nd round draft pick (Lorenzo Brown was later selected) to the Minnesota Timberwolves; and the New Orleans Hornets traded Jerome Dyson, Brad Miller and a 2016 2nd round draft pick (Rade Zagorac was later selected) to the Phoenix Suns. (NOH traded MIN's 2016 2nd-round pick back to MIN; MIN traded top-13 protected 2014 1st round pick, which became 2016 and 2017 2nd round picks, including the pick MIN re-acquired from NOH, to PHO.)

August 1, 2012: Signed P.J. Tucker as a free agent.

August 15, 2012: Signed Jermaine O'Neal as a free agent.

October 1, 2012: Signed Othyus Jeffers as a free agent.

October 1, 2012: Signed Ike Diogu as a free agent.

October 1, 2012: Signed Solomon Jones as a free agent.

October 1, 2012: Signed Luke Zeller as a free agent.

October 1, 2012: Signed Diante Garrett as a free agent.

February 21, 2013: Traded Sebastian Telfair to the Toronto Raptors for Hamed Haddadi and a 2014 2nd round draft pick (Lamar Patterson was later selected).

February 21, 2013: Traded a 2013 2nd round draft pick (Isaiah Canaan was later selected) to the Houston Rockets for Marcus Morris.