From Utah Media guide:

WALT PERRIN
VICE PRESIDENT OF PLAYER PERSONNEL
Walt Perrin is currently in
his 17th season with the Utah Jazz, and 10th as vice president of player personnel after being promoted from director in September 2007.
In his current role, Perrin’s responsibilities include evaluating players on all levels and assisting Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey with potential player acquisitions.
Before joining the Jazz, Perrin spent nine years with the Detroit Pistons. After spending 1992 as director
of scouting, Perrin moved to the bench as an assistant under Don Chaney. In 1995 he returned to the director of scouting position, where he would stay until 2001.
Prior to his tenure in Detroit, Perrin spent two years with the Minnesota Timberwolves, helping the second- year franchise develop a foundation of players on which to build its future.
Perrin received his degree from Northern Illinois University, where he played on the 1971-72 Huskies basketball squad that won the Midwestern Conference
championship. Perrin and the rest of the squad would be inducted into the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1987.
Perrin began his career as the head coach of NIU’s junior varsity team while finishing his degree there. Upon graduation, he then became the assistant varsity coach and junior varsity coach at his alma mater, Evanston High School, in Evanston, Ill. That led him to Northwestern University, where beginning in 1974, he would spend the next 12 years as an assistant coach. From there he went to Fresno State for two years as an assistant, before getting an assistant coaching job with the Chicago Express
of the World Basketball League. Assuming the head coaching duties with just 10 games left, Perrin guided the Express to the league championship and the finals for the 1988 WBL championship.
Perrin recently relocated to Evanston, Ill. where
he was the starting point guard on the 1968 state championship basketball team at Evanston High School. Perrin has two sons, Christopher and Andrew.

This guy is 70 years old. I doubt he is the successor to Perry unless its an interim thing next year.
It very well could be Utah was looking to promote some younger blood into the role or move forward with fresh thinkers. Not a slight on him at all, its just an odd time for Utah to let him go and Walt Perrin had "feelers" out there.

Odd that Allan Houstan is not making waves into a bigger role or he might be the next GM. Hard to say. Seems like this guy is solid and Craig Robinson is out.

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CrushAlot wrote:Podcast of Perrin preparing for the 2019 draft.
https://secure.nba.com/jazz/news/note-prepare-2019-nba-draft-jazz-vp-player-personnel-walt-perrin

As to the age thing he is an assistant GM with a focus on personnel it would seem, not running day to day operations. Also, how many times has Jerry West's name been brought up in recent years?

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Yes age is a concern. Whether it's keeping up with the rigors or sometimes people just lose a step mentally -- not everyone of course; so it is a concern (maybe warranted maybe not)

Both Donovan and Rudy were originally Denver picks. Utah made those trades so kuddos to them for specifically targeting players in those slots and being right on both of them

What't a little puzzling to me is that if Perry was good at anything it seemed to be at drafting -- with the biggest question mark being KK. And this guy seems to be a draft guy

Not sure whether it was Perry (theoretically it should have been) or Mills (dear lord!) who was responsible for "building" the team and strategy for such, but that's where we need the most help. Forming an identity where we can obtain real value in draft and development; rather than the disaster known as the Mills era/error -- worse than Phil