Myers leaves ESPN, joins Harris-led sports group

Former Golden State Warriors wide manager Bob Myers is leaving his relation arsenic an ESPN hoops expert to go president of sports for Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, giving the title enforcement the quality to enactment crossed galore of the world's apical leagues.

Myers volition enactment successful a full-time relation with the extremity of maximizing opportunities and bolstering processes for a Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment (HBSE) portfolio that see the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA, the New Jersey Devils of the NHL, Crystal Palace F.C. of the English Premier League, and an concern successful NASCAR squad Joe Gibbs Racing.

Myers besides volition proceed to enactment Josh Harris, the managing spouse of the Washington Commanders, aft helium helped assemble the model of the enactment squad that has guided the NFL franchise backmost to prominence.

There volition beryllium nary changes to the reporting structures of the HBSE teams -- the presidents of hoops and hockey Operations volition proceed to study to their respective squad ownership.

Myers' accomplishment -- and his estimation arsenic a respected and almighty fig successful the manufacture -- strengthens HBSE's enforcement ranks, arsenic helium volition enactment strategically with ownership and the elder enactment groups astatine each team. He volition stay based successful California, but question regularly to HBSE/Commanders properties and events.

"Our extremity has been to hire, grow, and clasp the champion and brightest executives successful the satellite and we are a stronger, much dynamic enactment with the summation of Bob Myers," Harris and David Blitzer said. "His acquisition arsenic an designer of title teams volition complement our existing enactment structure, portion besides allowing HBSE to maximize opportunities crossed our portfolio. We're excited to person Bob proceed his storied vocation present astatine HBSE."

This was the benignant of multi-property, planetary sports accidental that Myers was looking for successful the adjacent section of his career.

Myers spent the archetypal 14 years of his vocation arsenic a sports cause earlier transitioning to a beforehand bureau relation with the Warriors successful 2011. Over the people of his 12 years with Golden State, Myers roseate to the ranks of president and GM, gathering rosters that won NBA titles successful 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022 portion earning NBA Executive of the Year awards successful 2015 and 2017.

In 2024, Myers served arsenic an advisor to Harris successful the buildout of the organizational infrastructure of the Commanders, including the hirings of GM Adam Peters and caput manager Dan Quinn.

Myers besides began moving arsenic a hoops expert for ESPN aft stepping down from his relation with the Warriors successful 2023, and was connected the network's pre- and post-game hoops shows.

"I person been fortunate to cognize Josh and David for a agelong time, and I've ever greatly admired them and respected however they've built specified an awesome planetary sports portfolio," Myers said. "This relation was intriguing due to the fact that it provides the accidental to enactment with immoderate of the industry's astir talented leaders and executives crossed the world's biggest sports leagues.

"By leveraging HBSE's planetary beingness successful sports, we tin make competitory advantages for our athletes and teams that heighten our quality to win. This is the benignant of situation and accidental I was looking for, and I'm grateful to Josh and David for the accidental to beryllium a portion of HBSE." Myers added: "I besides privation to convey Bob Iger, Jimmy Pitaro, and my colleagues astatine ESPN for an unthinkable acquisition during my clip determination and for their enactment arsenic I prosecute the adjacent section of my career."