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David Stern

1942 - 2020

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David Joel Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020) was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. Stern oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s. He is credited with developing and broadening the NBA's audience, especially internationally by setting up training camps, playing exhibition games, and recruiting more international players. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Stern has received more than 3,362,875 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). David Stern is the 316th most popular businessperson (down from 287th in 2019), the 3,569th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,344th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 3.4M

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  • 53.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, David Stern ranks 316 out of 847. Before him are Amadeo Giannini, Bertha Krupp, Alice Walton, Johanna Quandt, Tadashi Yanai, and Henry E. Steinway. After him are Ma Huateng, Jerry Buss, Carlos Tavares, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, George Averoff, and Lazare Ponticelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, David Stern ranks 249. Before him are James Tien, Natalia Gutman, Dioncounda Traoré, Marshall Bell, Jerry Garcia, and David Ogden Stiers. After him are Richard Williams, Jean Ping, Ludmila Savelyeva, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Ana Blandiana, and Ian Dury. Among people deceased in 2020, David Stern ranks 202. Before him are Branko Kostić, Zeev Sternhell, Jimmy McLane, Rishi Kapoor, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and Shirley Knight. After him are Juan Marsé, David Graeber, Yuri Orlov, Ronald Harwood, Gigi Proietti, and Helen Reddy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Stern ranks 3,569 out of 20,380. Before him are Shirley Knight (1936), Ray Wise (1947), Marcian Hoff (1937), Jeff Buckley (1966), Eric Dolphy (1928), and Cameron Mitchell (1918). After him are Charles Coburn (1877), George Raft (1901), William Atherton (1947), Joe Viterelli (1937), Dave Grusin (1934), and Rick Barry (1944).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, David Stern ranks 96. Before him are Erin Brockovich (1960), John DeLorean (1925), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Paul Castellano (1915), Amadeo Giannini (1870), and Alice Walton (1949). After him are Jerry Buss (1933), David Koch (1940), Chuck Feeney (1931), Linda McMahon (1948), Roy E. Disney (1930), and Edwin Drake (1819).

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