Mr. Litvin was the President, League Operations, of the NBA from 2006 until his retirement in 2015. As the NBA s President, League Operations, he managed several core areas of the day-to-day operations of the NBA. Mr. Litvin also managed, on behalf of the NBA Board of Governors, franchise matters such as revenue sharing, team sales and financings, relocations and the NBA s ownership and debt policies. At the NBA, Mr. Litvin was previously Executive Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, from 2000 to 2006, Senior Vice President and General Counsel from 1999 to 2000, and he started at the NBA as a staff attorney in 1988. He is currently a Senior Deal Partner with Andalusian Sports Advisors, a boutique sports mergers and acquisitions firm. As founder and president of Calumet Consulting, LLC, a sports consulting business, Mr. Litvin has also provided sports consulting and expert witness services to various sports properties and individuals since 2018. He has also served as a lecturer in Columbia University s master s degree program in Sports Management since 2018. Mr. Litvin previously served as a director of MSGN from 2015 until the Networks Merger in July 2021, and was a member of its Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. In light of his more than 27 years of business experience at the NBA (including as the chief NBA league office liaison to the NBA Board of Governors), subsequent work in the sports and entertainment industry, extensive knowledge about the sports and media businesses, management and legal experience, and service on the boards of the Company, MSGN and various charitable institutions, our Board has concluded that Mr. Litvin should serve as a director of the Company.