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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.
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.
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 ...
Jun 14, 2024 · He served the Democratic Party for over two decades as one of their top electoral strategists. He was the United States Postmaster General and was named to President Lyndon Johnson’s cabinet in...
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 ...
May 12, 2022 · Before it was known as the Larry O'Brien Trophy, the NBA's biggest prize was called the Walter A. Brown Trophy beginning in 1964 to honor the original owner of the Celtics.
May 12, 2022 · O'Brien oversaw the expansion of the league from 18 to 23 teams, merger of the American Basketball Association with the NBA and adoption of the 3-point line.
