Jason M. Levien (born 1971) is an American sports executive. He is the CEO and managing general owner of the Major League Soccer club D.C. United and co-owner of Swansea City, a Welsh football club, and the Brisbane Bullets, an Australian basketball club. Levien is the former CEO of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. Early life He was born to a Jewish family and raised in Metropolitan New York. He was bar mitzvahed in Israel. His father is an attorney and business executive who represented Hector "Macho" Camacho among other athletes and sports professionals; his mother was a teacher. Levien played on the basketball team while attending Pomona College where he graduated in 1993. He then attended the University of Michigan School of Law where he was an editor of the law review. Career Legal work, sports agency, professorship In 1998, as a licensed attorney, he started work at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly where he assisted in representing professional athletes. In 2003, he left the firm to found his own sports agency representing professional athletes in the NBA, NFL, MLB and other sports leagues in the United States and across the globe. He then went on to work as a member of the front offices of the Sacramento Kings and Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA. He also was an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law where he taught sports law. In 2005, he negotiated a $33 million deal with the Miami Heat on behalf of Udonis Haslem. In 2007, Levien negotiated a $55 million deal with the Sacramento Kings on behalf of the Kings' leading scorer, Kevin Martin. On July 31, 2008, Levien negotiated what was the largest contract in the history of the Chicago Bulls, a six-year, $80 million agreement for his client, Luol Deng. Levien also represented Omri Casspi and Yotam Halperin, two of the first Israeli players drafted into the NBA, Ukrainian-born center, Kyrylo Fesenko, Courtney Lee, Hedo Türkoğlu and Earnest Graham, among others. An article chronicling three of Levien's clients drafted by the NBA in 2006, appeared in The New York Times Play Magazine in October 2006. Philadelphia 76ers In 2011, Levien emerged as part of an investment group along with actor Will Smith that purchased the Philadelphia 76ers. D.C. United In 2012, Levien and fellow Sixers minority owner Erick Thohir were named new majority owners for Major League