CJ McCollum Elected As President of National Basketball Players Association

CJ McCollum, the star guard for the Portland Trail Blazers, has been elected president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).

McCollum succeeds 16-year veteran Chris Paul, who was the president of the NBPA for the previous two terms, beginning in 2013. Before being elected, McCollum was already an integral member of the NBPA, serving as a vice president on the NBPA’s executive committee since 2018.

Some of Paul’s major accomplishments were transferring the players’ group licensing rights back to the union and the birth of THINK450, the for-profit section of the NBPA that handles those rights. He also was a key figure in creating and maintaining the Orlando bubble in 2020 and the subsequent 2020-21 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among McCollum’s major projects will be finding a replacement for Michele Roberts, who has been the Executive Director of the NBPA since 2014. He will have Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams, elected as vice president, at his side.