Andre Iguodala became silently executive director of the NBPA in early 2024

Andre Iguodala is now the full -time executive director of the NBPA, after having quietly lost his temporary tag last year without any formal announcement by the union.

Iguodala became “interim executive director” at the end of 2023, replacing Tamika Tremaglio following his dismissal from the NBPA. At the time, it seemed that Iguodala would play the role until a permanent successor did not resume –SportyThe story of his appointment called him “temporary”, but changed during his first three months of work.

In February 2024, according to someone who is familiar with the matter, the executive committee of the NBPA and the advice of the players’ representatives, which includes members of all 30 teams, voted to make the position of Iguodala more permanent with a new multi -year contract. There was no formal process that included external candidates, said the person, to whom anonymity was granted because the process was not public.

The union has not advertised the new status of Iguodala or its contract. The word “acting” was removed from the biography of Iguodala on the union website at a certain point between February 19 and March 1, 2024, according to a review of the cache pages. The NBPA used the new shortest title, without the word “acting”, in a press release in August.

The salary of Iguodala is set by representatives of the Union player. He was paid $ 2.8 million in the tax year which ended on 30 September 2024, according to the NBPA LM-2 deposit, with $ 2.09 million in this in gross wages.

A union representative refused to comment on the specifications of the process or his contract. Even Iguodala, currently in Spain for a performance of out -of -season performance of a week for players, refused to comment.

Iguodala earned $ 185.2 million salary during his 19 -year -old NBA career, according to Spotc. He was a four -time NBA sample and was MVP of the finals in 2015 with the Golden State Warriors. As a player he served for more than a decade in the NBPA executive committee, including a four-year mandate as the first vice-president since 2019-2023.

It was also an active investor, both as a player and after retiring, including business investments and initial stadium in Coinbase, Allbirds, Zoom, DataDog and Dapper Labs, who collaborated both with the Union and on the championship on its NFT product. He is co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a venture capital company from $ 200 million; The mosaic portfolio includes athletes before, an agency that mainly represents the NFL players.

Iguodala is a minority owner in the NWSL Bay franchise, the English football club Leeds United and the TGL franchise in San Francisco. He has invested in the last two teams together with other active NBA players, including Russell Westbrook, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Larry Nance Jr. and Tj McConnell. Iguodala revealed all its necessary investments in the context of its transition to becoming executive director, said the source.

Iguodala has maintained a low profile since it took the acting position in 2023, in contrast to the tremaglio. It does not make many formal interviews or conversation events in its ability with the union, nor is it often presented in the press releases of the Union. His official status to the union continued to create confusion in news reports for more than a year after the “acting” label has been removed.

However, he has remodeled the leadership of the Union in the last year. In February the NBPA took David Kelly, then legal director of the Golden State Warriors, to be the CEO of the union. It is common that sports unions are guided by managers with legal experience and Kelly, who also acts as a general consultant of the Union, now directs the legal efforts of the union as a supplement to the leadership of Iguodala.

Kelly is one of the handfuls of trade union leaders who united with the mandate of Iguodala. Others include Chief People Officer Michelle Crenshaw, Chief Financial Officer Cameron Jones, EVP for the operations of the players Morgan Cato and vice -president of the communication of the Jacinda Ortiz brand.

The current CBA of the NBA, which entered into force in 2023, crosses the 2029-30 season.