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- Birth nameDavid Joel Stern
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- David Stern is an American businessman and lawyer who served as the fourth commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) He started with the league in 1966 as an outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980. He became Commissioner in 1984, succeeding Larry O'Brien. He is credited with increasing the popularity of the NBA in the 1990s and 2000s.
Stern has served on the Rutgers University Board of Overseers and is a Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
On October 25, 2012, Stern announced that he would step down as NBA commissioner on February 1, 2014, 30 years to the day after beginning his tenure as commissioner. His deputy, Adam Silver, was his successor. At the time of his departure, he was the NBA's longest-serving commissioner. Stern received the Olympic Order in 2012. On February 14, 2014, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced that Stern would be a member of its 2014 induction class. In 2016, he became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpouseDianne Bock(November 27, 1963 - January 1, 2020) (his death, 2 children)
- Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, February 1984 - 31 January 2014.
- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
- Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014.
- He was nominated for the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Sports category.
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