Sports Business Classroom is excited to announce that Amin Elhassan will be a featured host for the 2021 Draft Academy Virtual Experience!
Draft Academy was designed to give the future of basketball the chance to experience what it’s like to be in the War Room on Draft Day and during the Trade Deadline and learn the skills necessary to be an effective front office pro.
It is also a chance for you to showcase what you’ve got.
If you dream of working in basketball and want to take your basketball experience to the next level the Draft Academy: Virtual Experience is for you.
Past speakers have included NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, TNT’s David Aldridge, Houston Rockets Head Coach Mike D’Antoni, NFL Network’s Andrea Kremer, Dallas Mavericks Head Coach Rick Carlisle, the cast of NBATV’s The Starters, ESPN’s Mark Jones, Los Angeles Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and NBA Executive VP of Basketball Operations Kiki Vandeweghe, just to name a few.
SBC SPEAKER BIO: AMIN ELHASSAN
Amin Elhassan is currently a host on the Dan Le Batard Show and multiple NBA Radio shows on Sirius XM.
Prior to joining John Skipper and DAZN, Amin worked with ESPN on a variety of NBA shows including The Jump, Highly Questionable, The Dan Le Batard Show, Jalen & Jacoby, and co-hosted a show on ESPN Radio with Izzy Gutierrez. Amin joined ESPN in 2012 after a decade of working in the NBA.
Amin’s NBA tenure started when he joined the Atlanta Hawks as a Field Marketing and Game Operations employee. Then in 2005 Amin joined the New York Knicks as a Basketball Operations Intern and then finally ended up with the Phoenix Suns as a video coordinator. Amin continued to grow in the Suns Organization and ultimately ended up as the Assistant Director of Basketball Operations before leaving for ESPN in 2012.
Elhassan was born and raised in Sudan and moved multiple times before finally landing in New York before starting highschool. After high school, Amin went on to graduate from Georgia Tech University with a degree in engineering. .
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