{"id":849561,"date":"2026-10-03T00:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/849561\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:39:15","slug":"bc-roma-taps-former-mavs-executive-as-president-of-global-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/849561\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Roma taps former Mavs executive as president of global business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killebrew spent 27 years as an executive with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a>. During his tenure, he generated more than $500 million in sponsorship revenue while overseeing ticket sales, corporate partnerships and media rights.<\/p>\n<p>BC Roma\u2019s general manager and managing partner is Donnie Nelson, who served as the Mavericks&#8217; general manager from 2005 to 2021 and helped build the franchise\u2019s 2011\u00a0NBA championship team.<\/p>\n<p>He is the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/don-nelson-donnie-nelson-dallas-mavericks-celtics-22381182.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Nelson<\/a>, who coached the Mavericks from 1997 to 2005. BC Roma co-founder is former Mavericks All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/luka-doncic\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRome is one of the greatest sports cities in the world, with a deep basketball legacy and incredibly passionate fans,\u201d Killebrew said. In a statement \u201cWe\u2019re excited to tap into that energy, build on that history, and help further Rome\u2019s global sporting profile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Killebrew spent 27 years as an executive with the Dallas Mavericks. During his tenure, he generated more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6,87203],"class_list":["post-849561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-tp-dallas-mavericks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117374193736184308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}