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SUNY Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo (commonly referred to as UB, University at Buffalo, and sometimes SUNY Buffalo) is a public research university in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. The university was founded in 1846 as ...

Duke Law School The Duke University School of Law is the law school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law is a constituent academic unit that began in 1868 as the ...

Temple University School of Law The James E. Beasley School of Law (known as Temple Law) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Temple University, a public university, public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1895 and enrolls ...

, occupation = , years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , agent = , known_for = *Commissioner of the

Continental Basketball Association The Continental Basketball Association (CBA), originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, and later as the Eastern Professional Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Association, was a men's professional basketball m ...

*Commissioner of the

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 Arena Football League season, 1987 season, making it the third longest-runnin ...

ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...

Legal Correspondent, 1989-1994. *Owner of NewKadia.com Comics , notable_works = , style = , net_worth = , height = , television = , title = , term = , predecessor = , successor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charges = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = Fran Drucker , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = , father =

Norm Drucker Norm Drucker (July 4, 1920 – February 6, 2015) was a major influence in professional basketball officiating for over 35 years. His NBA and ABA officiating career as both a referee and Supervisor of Officials spanned the careers of all-time pro ...

, relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Jim Drucker (born ) is a former commissioner of the

, former commissioner of the

, and founder and owner of NewKadia.com, the world's largest online-only comic-book seller.

Biography

Drucker was born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

, New York, to Ukrainian parents and is Jewish.Jesse Bernstein (May 8, 2019)
"Jim Drucker’s Life Leads Him From Basketball to Comic Books,"
''Jewish Exponent'' His father,

, was a New York City public school teacher and principal, and then a long-time referee in the

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...

(NBA) and

American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a major professional basketball league that operated for nine seasons from 1967 to 1976. The upstart ABA operated in direct competition with the more established National Basketball Association thr ...

(ABA). Drucker grew up in East Meadow in

Long Island, New York Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...

. He attended

, obtaining a bachelor's degree in political science and communication, and then a law degree from

. He next taught at the

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

School of Law. He is married to Fran Drucker and now lives in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Drucker was commissioner of the

(CBA), a precursor to the

NBA G League The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is a professional basketball league in North America that serves as the Minor league#Basketball, developmental league of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The league comprises 31 teams; as of ...

, from 1978 to 1986; while in the position, he acquired additional coverage by offering the first-ever million dollar

half-court shot A half-court shot is a long-range basketball shot generally taken from the half-court line or beyond. Some sports web sites define such shots as "Heaves". Shots from beyond half-court are the lowest percentage shot in basketball, and usually atte ...

. He was

's on-camera legal analyst from 1989-1994. He was commissioner of the

(AFL) for three seasons, starting in 1994, during which time, the league expanded from 11 to 18 teams. In 1999, with his own collection of 850 comic books, Drucker founded NewKadia.com, the world's largest online-only comic-book seller. In 2017, it sold 250,000 comic books.

References

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