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NBA team front offices had four black presidents and CEOs this season -- more than all other U.S. major professional sports combined -- earning the league high marks for the second straight year in a diversity study released Wednesday.
The league has received top grades among men's leagues in all 12 previous studies from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, and for the second straight year got an overall B+.
The president/CEOs were Terdema Ussery with the Dallas Mavericks, the Charlotte Bobcats' Ed Tapscott, Billy King with the Philadelphia 76ers and Steve Mills with the New York Knicks and WNBA's New York Liberty.
Because Mills is president of all team operations at Madison Square Garden he is also president/CEO of the New York Rangers. Aside from that, no other major pro sport has a single minority president/CEO, the study said.
The NBA also recorded its best-ever scores for race among professional jobs in the NBA league office (33 percent minorities); among senior and professional team administrators (20 percent and 26 percent, respectively); doctors and trainers (12 percent); and broadcasters (26 percent), study author Richard Lapchick wrote.
Bobcats owner Robert Johnson remained the only black team majority owner in all men's pro sports.
Women held 41 percent of the professional jobs in the league office -- down two percentage points but still higher than any other men's professional league in any previous report. Opportunities for racial minorities in the league office increased by four percentage points to 33 percent -- also higher than any UCF study on record.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/nba/06/07/nba.diversity.ap/index.html
The league has received top grades among men's leagues in all 12 previous studies from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, and for the second straight year got an overall B+.
The president/CEOs were Terdema Ussery with the Dallas Mavericks, the Charlotte Bobcats' Ed Tapscott, Billy King with the Philadelphia 76ers and Steve Mills with the New York Knicks and WNBA's New York Liberty.
Because Mills is president of all team operations at Madison Square Garden he is also president/CEO of the New York Rangers. Aside from that, no other major pro sport has a single minority president/CEO, the study said.
The NBA also recorded its best-ever scores for race among professional jobs in the NBA league office (33 percent minorities); among senior and professional team administrators (20 percent and 26 percent, respectively); doctors and trainers (12 percent); and broadcasters (26 percent), study author Richard Lapchick wrote.
Bobcats owner Robert Johnson remained the only black team majority owner in all men's pro sports.
Women held 41 percent of the professional jobs in the league office -- down two percentage points but still higher than any other men's professional league in any previous report. Opportunities for racial minorities in the league office increased by four percentage points to 33 percent -- also higher than any UCF study on record.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/nba/06/07/nba.diversity.ap/index.html
