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  1. Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. (July 7, 1917 – September 28, 1990) was an American politician and basketball commissioner. He was one of the United States Democratic Party 's leading electoral strategists for more than two decades.

  2. The Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy is the championship trophy awarded annually by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to the winner of the NBA Finals. The trophy originally kept the Walter A. Brown Trophy name of its predecessor until being renamed in 1984.

  3. Lawrence Robert O'Brien (born July 19, 1949) is a Canadian businessman and politician. O'Brien served as the 58th mayor of Ottawa from 2006 until 2010. O'Brien was the founder and former Chair and CEO of Calian Technologies Ltd.

  4. Jun 12, 2023 · Larry O'Brien was an American politician who served as the commissioner of the NBA from 1975 to 1984. O'Brien was born in 1917 in Springfield, Mass. — the same city in which the sport of ...

  5. Jun 14, 2024 · When was Larry O’Brien named NBA commissioner? With his legacy cemented in politics and his leadership abilities unquestioned, the NBA knocked at a particularly fragile time.

  6. May 12, 2022 · Who is Larry O'Brien? Long before he was recognized for his contributions to the NBA, O'Brien had a successful career in politics. He served as a campaign director for John F. Kennedy and...

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  8. A former postmaster general, a special assistant to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the national chairman of the Democratic Party, and a native of Springfield, Massachusetts where basketball was invented, Larry O’ Brien made the transition from politics to sports in 1975 by becoming the commissioner of the National ...

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