Dave Checketts

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (Find sources: Dave Checketts – news, books, scholar)

This article is written like an advertisement. Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view. For blatant advertising that would require a fundamental rewrite to become encyclopedic, use {{db-spam}} to mark for speedy deletion.

Dave Checketts (born c. 1956) is an American sports businessman. At 28, he became president and general manager of the Utah Jazz, making him the youngest chief executive in National Basketball Association history. He then spent a year as the general manager of NBA International, where he worked to increase the league's presence around the world.

He became president of the New York Knicks in March 1991, and in his four seasons as president, the team made it to the Eastern Conference Finals three times and went to the NBA Finals in 1994. The team set records for attendance, television ratings and revenue under his watch but the club failed to win the NBA Finals.

He went on to become president and chief executive officer of Madison Square Garden, the company that owns the New York Rangers, New York Knicks, New York Liberty of the WNBA and Madison Square Garden and the MSG television network.^[1] In 1997, MSG acquired Radio City Music Hall. From 1998 to 2001, the Rangers failed to make the playoffs four straight seasons despite having one of the highest payrolls in the NHL.

In September 2001, Checketts founded Sports Capital Partners Worldwide, a consulting and investment service firm for sports teams. In 2002, SCP acquired SportsWest Communications, a syndicated broadcaster of college sports. In July 2004 SCP bought into Major League Soccer and established a team in Utah, Real Salt Lake, which began play in April of 2005.

On September 29, 2005 it was announced that SCP had officially signed an agreement to purchase the St. Louis Blues.

Checketts attended the University of Utah and got a master's degree in business administration from Brigham Young University. After graduation, he joined the Boston-based consulting firm of Bain & Company.

Checketts is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was featured in a book titled The Mormon Way of Doing Business.

References

This article about an American businessperson born in the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e