The Sports Business Journal released their annual Most Influential list today. The NBA was represented by Commissioner David Stern, Deputy commissioner Adam Silver, Owner Mark Cuban, and Executive director Billy Hunter. Stern is the top ranked league boss as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and MLB Commissioner Bud Selig are ranked 4th and 6th respectively.
Stern and Silver jumped up from last year’s rankings, while Cuban fell eleven spots from a year ago.
Silver discusses the economy in a Special Report by Bill King:
On a Wednesday afternoon last month, in the middle of an otherwise typical day of business at the NBA, Adam Silver contemplated the surreal scene that played out on an office television: The CEOs of the Big Three U.S. automakers, hats in hand before Congress, warning that without a bailout from the federal government, the chilled credit market might sink them for good.
“That was the starkest example, for me, of where we are as a country,” said Silver, deputy commissioner and COO of the NBA, who occupies the No. 24 slot on this year’s SportsBusiness Journal Most Influential list. “Some of our country’s great companies are talking about going into receivership. Clearly, these are scary times.”
[H/T: Barry Horn of The Dallas Morning News]
December 16th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I’m just glad that KOBE!! finally recieved his props that are coming to him. He deserves the top spot as not only the bestestess basketball player on the planet, but the most influential person in sports.
now go get me jason kidd.