Senior Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs
NBA Entertainment
Myles C. Pistorius is Senior Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs, at NBA Entertainment where he focuses primarily on matters relating to events and attractions, television and digital media production and distribution, marketing and advertising, and public relations. He joined the NBA in 2000 and served as Associate Counsel, Assistant General Counsel and Vice President before assuming his current position in 2011.

Since joining the NBA, Pistorius has been the lead legal and business affairs counsel on the league’s major domestic and international events, including NBA All-Star Games and related events in the U.S. and exhibition games and grassroots events in international locations such as Greater China, Europe, Latin America and Africa.

His responsibilities also include negotiating and drafting many of the NBA’s television, satellite radio, photography and home video production, distribution and talent agreements. Pistorius also advises the NBA’s marketing group in connection with advertising group and social media issues, and works with the public relations group in developing and enforcing the league’s policies in connection with the use of NBA content by the news media

Prior to joining the NBA, Pistorius served as a corporate associate with the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City, concentrating primarily on mergers and acquisitions and banking transactions.

Pistorius received his J.D. in 1996 from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a research editor for the Journal of Law and Social Problems. He attended Rutgers University as a James Dickson Carr Scholar, graduating in 1993 with a B.A. in political science after completing the Rutgers College Honors Program.

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