Giffin, who is 34 and lives in Atlanta, went to Wake Forest University and, while there, managed the men's basketball team for several years.
Ms. Walcott, too, was no slouch in high school, earning good grades and managing the boys' basketball team.
After playing cornerback during his senior year and heading off to college that fall, where he manages the university basketball team, he took another blow.
He also owned a basketball team in Salt Lake City; held a part-interest in the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team; founded the United States Football League, which is now defunct, and managed the career of the heavyweight boxer Ron Lyle.
AEG is also the parent company of Goldenvoice, which produces Coachella and manages the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers basketball teams. .
Jordan did little to soothe that anger after buying a minority interest in the franchise and becoming the managing member of the basketball operation in 2006.
Sure, we've heard the denials that the National Collegiate Athletic Association never did and never will stage-manage the bracketing of the men's basketball tournament.
Vicki Staton, a former varsity women's basketball and volleyball coach, manages the intramural program.
"Girls' basketball now exceeds boys' basketball in the A.A.U.," said Eddie Clinton, who manages the girls' program for the A.A.U.
And now, emerging from the swamplands of New Jersey, the Nets have managed to make basketball fun again for all New Yorkers, who have been flinching and twitching while witnessing the Knicks.
