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Pat Garrity a candidate to replace Michele Roberts as NBPA's executive director
Over the past two months, league sources have identified other potential candidates contacted as part of a long-running search that began in March 2020 and was paused last summer while the league and the union were focused on restarting the 2019-20 season after a four-month shutdown imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. In alphabetical order: Noah Croom (former Minnesota Timberwolves executive who has also worked in the league office and as a player agent); Arne Duncan (former U.S. Secretary of Education in the Barack Obama administration who played pro basketball in Australia after his college career at Harvard); Nichole Francis Reynolds (attorney and former vice president of U.S. public policy at Mastercard; currently vice president and head of global government relations at business technology company ServiceNow).
Durant and Paul are joined by other athletes including former NBA player Baron Davis and retired New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia. PNC Bank, Mastercard and Elevate Capital are also investors. “It’s larger than just a check. They are investing in the next generation of kids to make sure they learn financial education,” said Tanya Van Court, founder and chief executive officer of Goalsetter.
A group of CEOs and top business executives are pressing Congress to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Top executives from companies such as Microsoft, Pfizer, the National Basketball Association, Lyft, Etsy, American Express, Mastercard and Conde Nast are part of the effort as a group of Republican senators plan on objecting to Biden’s Electoral College win.
More than 160 businesses sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday asking him to take “immediate action” to address quality of life issues in the five boroughs. In the letter, the heads of 163 companies including Mastercard, the WNBA, the NBA, Macy’s, JetBlue, Con Edison, WeWork, Lyft and Warby Parker said they were “employers who are committed to New York City and its re-emergence from the devastating health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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