David Stern was an American businessman and lawyer, best known for being the fourth commissioner of the ‘National Basketball Association’ (NBA). Born and raised in a Jewish family in New York City, David graduated high school from ‘Teaneck High School.’ He then graduated in history from ‘Rutgers University’ and then attended ‘Columbia Law School.’ Subsequently, he began working at the law firm ‘Proskauer, Rose, Goetz and Mendelsohn,’ which represented the ‘National Basketball League.’ He joined the law firm as an outside counsel in 1966, and in the late 1970s, he became the general counsel. In 1980, he had a huge breakthrough when he was selected to become the league’s executive vice president. He became the commissioner of the ‘NBA’ in 1984, and thus began a successful tenure that made the ‘NBA’ hugely popular in the country. David used many tactics, sometimes controversial, to popularize the ‘NBA’ in the US. On February 1, 2014, he stepped down from his position after serving the league for thirty years as a commissioner. He was the longest-serving ‘NBA’ commissioner at the time of his retirement.