Sports Business Classroom is excited to announce that Larry Coon will be a featured speaker 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: LARRY COON
Larry Coon is a computer scientist by both education and trade, and works in Information Technology management at University of California, Irvine, overseeing Business Intelligence. He also has taught university Computer Science courses, specializing in database theory.
Coon is best known as an expert in the NBA salary cap, and as the author of the Salary Cap FAQ available online at CBAFAQ.com. He has been profiled in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register and Sports Illustrated. He makes regular media appearances including television (such as ESPN’s “Outside the Lines”) radio and podcasts. He also is a contributor to ESPN.com and to BasketballInsiders.com. He is often quoted and cited, both online and in print, by local and national media venues. He also has contributed to the New York Times Off the Dribble blog, HoopsWorld.com and RealGM.com.
In July 2011 Sports Illustrated named Coon to their inaugural Twitter 100, which lists the 100 most essential people in the sports world to follow on Twitter.
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