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Malcolm Turner

American sports administrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ60735073
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Malcolm Turner is an athletics administrator who most recently served as the Athletic Director at Vanderbilt University. Prior to this role, he served as the president of the NBA G League.

Early life

Turner attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. He was member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He graduated with a business degree and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist.

He earned joint J.D. and M.B.A degrees from Harvard University.

Career

Turner is a member of the New York State Bar. Turner worked at Wasserman Media Group, serving as the managing director of the golf division. Prior to his role in the golf division, Turner helped build Wasserman’s consulting division as its managing director, creating and managing sports, entertainment, venue and new product launch strategies for leading corporate brands and properties.

On October 31, 2014, Malcolm Turner was hired as the president of the NBA Development League (NBA D-League).

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