Throughout 42 years in the NBA, Pete Babcock has served as a volunteer scout, regional scout, assistant coach, director of scouting, director of player personnel, vice president of basketball operations, general manager, president and minority owner with eight different franchises……the New Orleans Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, San Diego Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks, Toronto Raptors and Cleveland Cavaliers.

In addition to his franchise responsibilities, he has served on the Competition and Rules Committee and Steering Committee from 1984-2003 and directed the NBA Pre-Draft Camp from 1984-2007. In 1996, he was appointed to the prestigious Senior National Team Committee, which selected the 1996 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team and coaching staff. For several years, he worked for the NBA office as a reviewer in evaluating officials and observers to continue to improve the game experience for all.

In 1989, he testified in Congress in an effort to increase spending for substance abuse issues on behalf of the National Institute of Health and also was recognized in a White House ceremony by President Reagan for his work with Native American youth.

During the Clinton-Gore administration, he was asked to assist in writing a position paper for the White House on “Building Character through Sport” and consulted with Vice President Al Gore on programs to reduce violence among our youth.

In 2010, the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation honored him in Washington D.C. with the annual Hitchcock Humanitarian Award for his work throughout his career.

Babcock has been a visiting professor at Emory University since 2004, teaching courses on “The History of the Game and the NBA” as well as “Civil Rights and the Game of Basketball”.

In 2020, he was asked to write a chapter for a new textbook, “Black History 365”, covering the civil rights movement and the game of basketball. The book is currently in use in many high schools throughout the United States.

Pete Babcock was born on May 12, 1949, in Bangor, Maine. He and his wife Yo, of 54 years, have two daughters, Amy and Katie, and four grandchildren, Carson, Avery, Harper and Mila.