Curated category
NBA commissioners
- J. Walter KennedyJames Walter Kennedy was born on the 8th of June 1912 in Stamford, Connecticut. He contracted polio early in life and this illness left him with a permanent…
- Adam SilverAdam Silver was born on the 25th of April 1962 into a Jewish-American family in Rye, New York. His father Edward Silver worked as a lawyer specializing in…
- David SternDavid Joel Stern entered the world on the 22nd of September 1942 in Manhattan. His family lived in Teaneck, New Jersey where his father ran a Jewish…
- Maurice PodoloffMaurice Podoloff was born to a Russian Jewish family in the Russian Empire on or about the 18th of August 1890. Doubt remains about his exact birthplace and…
- Larry O'BrienLawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was born on the 7th of July 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant parents. He learned about politics at a very…