Sports Business Classroom is excited to announce that ESPN NBA Analyst, New York Times Best-Selling author of Sprawlball, Professor at University of Texas, and Former VP of Strategic Research for the San Antonio Spurs Kirk Goldsberry will be a featured speaker for the 2020 Business of Basketball Virtual Conference taking place August 10-14, 2020!

Designed for those looking to break into the sports business world, the immersive, five-day Business of Basketball Virtual Conference provides registrants the opportunity to learn from top executives while performing real work in multiple in-demand disciplines, including team video, scouting, analytics, social media, digital branding, broadcasting, and the league salary cap.

Goldsberry will join an all-star lineup of sports business executives that will be teaching and joining the Sports Business Classroom Virtual Conference, including Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni, Washington Wizards General Manager Tommy Sheppard, Play-by-Play Commentator NBA on ESPN & ABC Mike Breen, Chief Creative Officer at Momentum Worldwide Omid Farhang, WNBA Champion Renee Montgomery, Bleacher Report Staff Writer Mirin Fader, and the Vegas Summer League co-founders Warren LeGarie and Albert Hall.

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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: KIRK GOLDSBERRY

Kirk Goldsberry is an NBA Analyst at ESPN, a New York Times bestselling author, and a professor at the University of Texas, where he teaches Sports Analytics. His first book “Sprawlball” came out in April 2019 and describes how analytics changed the NBA forever. He has previously served as the Vice President of Strategic Research at the San Antonio Spurs.

Goldsberry graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1999 with a degree in Earth Sciences, Geography. He then went on to earn his Master’s degree in Geography in 2004 and Ph.D. in Geography in 2007, both from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Goldsberry currently resides in Austin, Texas.

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