Longtime sports executive Dave Checketts shares lessons from decades of building, investing in, and operating teams across the NBA and MLS.
Checketts argues scarcity drives franchise value and backs collective bargaining for college athletes to preserve education standards. His MLS failure and sports-betting skepticism signal value clusters in marquee franchises, not peripheral ventures.
June 3, 2026
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The last time the Knicks were in the NBA Finals, in 1999, Dave Checketts was the team’s president. Nearly three decades later, New York is back in the championship and Checketts is still working in sports. He recently sat down with Front Office Sports to talk about the Knicks, his billion-dollar sports fund, how the University of Utah “sold off their future,” and why an MLS team was his “worst investment.”
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