Oris Stuart is the NBA’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.
The NBA continues to be an industry leader in diversity and gender hiring, earning high grades in a report compiled by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.
The 2018 NBA Racial and Gender Report card, created by the institute known as TIDES, gives the NBA an A+ for its racial hiring practices and a B for its gender hiring practices. The league’s overall grade was an A.
So you want to work in the sports industry? Like many students and young professionals pursuing an education in sports management and looking to make their big break into the business of sports, long gone are the days when working in industry is limited to selling tickets or running coverage of the local professional team for your hometown paper.
Projected to grow $145.3 billion between 2010-2015, the sports industry is flourishing with opportunities in all areas including: sports marketing and sponsorship, sports media (traditional and social media), sports facilities and even higher education institutions which are growing at faster than average projected rate of 15%. However, although there are numerous opportunities to work in sports these days, the competition to land one of them is also higher than ever.