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Meet The Executive That Oversees The NBA's Game Play

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Business News, News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.86 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

President of League Operations at the NBA, Byron Spruell, sat down with Forbes Senior Writer Jabari Young to discuss the state of the NBA, All-Star weekend, and the four things he needs to remain balanced.  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here back at the NBA All-Star game in Indianapolis, the 24th annual

0:08.0

NBA Tech Summit and I am joined by President of NBA Operations Operations, Byron Square World.

0:14.0

Thank you so much time, sir.

0:16.0

Last time I saw you, we were in your office, it was like 2019.

0:19.0

We were talking about a lot of stuff.

0:21.0

That's before the pandemic and everything.

0:23.0

And we had our time.

0:24.0

Vegas as a matter of fact.

0:25.0

Yeah, that is right.

0:26.0

We saw it.

0:27.0

And a lot of stuff was happening then.

0:29.0

We were talking about Mitzi.

0:30.0

At that point, the Mitziket wasn't even in yet.

0:32.0

And playing was still

0:32.5

developing but here we are again listen it's Black History Month in February so

0:37.1

let's start there right when you think about Black History Month who stands out to

0:41.6

you more and ignore the notables, Byron.

0:44.2

I'm talking about somebody who might, people may not know

0:47.4

and who was an inspiration.

0:49.3

Thank you, Jabari, thanks for having me.

0:50.6

And always a pleasure to visit with you. I got to start with my folks.

0:54.0

And they're not notable if you will, but for me that was the ground. That was the foundation.

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