Quote Originally Posted by paulwoods13 View Post
What legal knowledge is needed in that position? I'm pretty sure most of the (many) commissioners this league has had have not been lawyers. The need to understand law is far outweighed by the need to understand how to run and grow a business, IMO.
I don't know the answer to that, but some of the most successful North American sports commissioners have been lawyers, like them or not, including Bettman, Stern and Tagliabue.