Terdema L. Ussery II is president and CEO of the NBA

National Basketball Association

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’s Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

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 professional basketball team.

Ussery is in his eighth year as president and CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. He serves as an alternate governor for the Mavericks on the NBA Board of Governors and is a member of the WNBA board of directors. Under Ussery’s direction, the Dallas Mavericks has experienced increased corporate sponsorship, ticket sales, television revenues and community awareness.
He was ranked 21st in Sports Illustrated's "Top 101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports,” as well as the 2003 “Corporate Executive of the Year” by Black Enterprise

Black Enterprise

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 magazine.

Formerly, Ussery was president of Nike Sports Management. Prior to that, he was commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association

Continental Basketball Association

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. In 1999, then Texas Governor George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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 appointed him to a six-year term on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

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. Ussery sits on several other corporate and community boards and serves as CEO of HDNet, the nation's first high-definition television network. Ussery was elected to serve on Princeton University

Princeton University

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’s board of trustees, with a term ending in 2008.

Ussery grew up in the Watts

Watts, Los Angeles, California

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 section of South Central Los Angeles. After graduating from The Thacher School

The Thacher School

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, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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, and a master's degree in 1984 from Harvard

Harvard University

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’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

John F. Kennedy School of Government

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. In 1987, Ussery earned a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, where he served as executive editor of the California Law Review.

Corporate and Charitable Governance

Terdema Ussery holds positions in several charities and companies, including:

• Dallas Mavericks, President and CEO
• HDNet, CEO
• Boad of Trustees, Communities Foundation of Texas.
• Princeton University, Board of Trustees Member
• Timberland, Board of Directors Member
• Treehouse Foods, Board of Directors Member
• CTS America, Board of Directors Member
• Texas Health Resources, Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation, Board of Directors Member
• Dallas After School All-Stars, Board of Directors Member

External links

• ZoomInfo Web Summary of Terdema Ussery, retrieved on November 26, 2006.