The 2011-12 season marks as Adam Simon’s 17th with the HEAT organization and his first as Director of Player Personal.

Simon joined the HEAT in the 1995-96 season, serving as an intern in the Video Room under current Head Coach Erik Spoelstra. The following season he served as an intern in the Basketball Operations department, organizing information for the draft, a role in which he has handled since the 1996 NBA Draft. From 1997-2001 he was the HEAT’s Basketball Operations Administrative Assistant before being promoted to Scouting Coordinator in 2001. Prior to the 2002-03 season he was elevated to the position of scout before being promoted to Scout/Director of College Scouting during the 2003-04 season. He then served in the capacity of Director of College/International Scouting from 2004 thru 2011.

His current responsibilities include assisting President Pat Riley and Vice President, Player Personnel Chet Kammerer in all aspects relating to player personal. Simon is responsible for scouting college, high school and international players. He is charged with creating and managing player data base files which are used to track players. Simon is also responsible for coordinating the NBA Draft for the HEAT and the team’s summer free agent camps.

In the summer of 2006, he was a coach for the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, and also provided scouting reports for USA Basketball. A St. Thomas University graduate, Simon is single and lives in Miami Beach.