The owners? A board ofdirectors? How did he get that job? I asked this last night but all I got were opinions, a couple of jokes, and a long, irrelevant passage from Wiki. (It's not
in there; I looked). So does anybody know?
2007-06-14 08:27:19 · 8 answers · asked by Alice K 7 in Sports ➔ Basketball
NBA Players Association, Coaches, and Owners
2007-06-14 08:31:09 · answer #1 · answered by Brody 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
David Stern leads a league that is a model for professional sports in league operations, public service, global marketing and digital technology.
Mr. Stern was unanimously elected as the NBA's fourth commissioner and began his tenure on February 1, 1984. Since then, the NBA has added seven franchises; enjoyed a fifteen-fold increase in revenues; expanded its national television exposure dramatically; and launched the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA Development League. Interest generated by the league's growing international initiatives has led to the televising of NBA games in 215 countries in 43 languages. NBA TV, the league's 24-hour television network which launched in 1999, is now available in 40 countries, including 67 million U.S. homes. The leagues' Web sites, NBA.com, WNBA.com and NBADLEAGUE.com, attract more than two million visitors a day, with more than half of them coming from outside the U.S.
Mr. Stern began his association with the NBA in 1966 as outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980. During those years, he had a hand in virtually every matter that would shape the league, including the landmark 1976 settlement between the NBA and its players leading to free agency; the collective bargaining agreement that introduced the salary cap and revenue sharing; professional sports' first anti-drug agreement; and the creation of NBA Entertainment, a marketing, television and multi-media production company that has been telling the NBA story in award-winning fashion for two decades.
Mr. Stern's tenure has been marked by an intense commitment to social responsibility both in the United States and around the world. In 2005, the league launched NBA Cares, through which the league, players and teams will raise and contribute $100 million for charity, donate more than one million hours of volunteer service to communities worldwide, and build more than 100 educational and athletic facilities over a five-year span. NBA Cares supports a host of community outreach initiatives including the league's award-winning Read to Achieve program, which encourages young people to develop a life-long love of reading; The Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA program that helps young people develop the fundamentals of the game with a focus on sportsmanship and teamwork; and Basketball without Borders, an initiative designed to bring international communities together through grassroots basketball and community building efforts. Through NBA Cares, the league will also work with internationally-recognized youth-serving programs that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes. The NBA and its players have also supported, among other causes, volunteerism, child abuse prevention, drug abuse prevention, hunger relief, HIV/AIDS awareness and the Special Olympics.
Mr. Stern is the chair emeritus of the Trustees of Columbia University and serves or has served on the boards of Beth Israel Medical Center, the Rutgers University Foundation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, the Museum of Television and Radio, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A native of New York City, Mr. Stern is a graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia Law School. He is married to Dianne Bock Stern, and they are the parents of two adult sons.
2007-06-14 15:35:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The owners
2007-06-14 15:29:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't matter. NBA is collapsing in popularity, and he is the true reason. He will have to be replaced.
Good question! How come the guys didn't figure this out?
2007-06-14 16:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The owners vote him in but its near impossible take him out.
2007-06-14 15:35:13 · answer #5 · answered by rockytopsportsfan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i elected him sweetcheeks
2007-06-14 16:00:21 · answer #6 · answered by THING 2 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no idea
2007-06-14 15:28:47 · answer #7 · answered by Me 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
idk but he sucks as a commisioner
2007-06-14 15:58:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋