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"It's like any kid's dream, but you quickly realize that
business is business," he says. "I was more interested
in the business part of it - going to events, getting
sales leads, trying to get people to buy into what we're
doing - rather than playing basketball there. That's
when I realized that this is what I'd like to do."
He enjoys running the basketball leagues, something
he implemented. "That's an event we run ourselves,
and that's something I like the most. I get to put it on,
to customize the league any way I want, to make the
schedule, and to run the website for it. It makes me
feel like the NBA - it's a real-life league, and I like being
in charge of that."
TJ is a senior in the sport management program
at Syracuse University. In 2017, he interned with
USIndoor. He attended the 2017 Conference in
Baltimore and discovered an industry that is much
larger and diverse than he knew. "I wasn't ready for
