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Josh Bartelstein

January 01, 1970

Josh Bartelstein (born July 17, 1989[1]) is an American basketball executive and former college basketball player who is currently the CEO of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Footprint Center.

Josh Bartelstein
Phoenix Suns
PositionCEO Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury, and Footprint Center
LeagueNBA/WNBA
Personal information
Born (1989-07-17) July 17, 1989 (age 34)
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High schoolPhillips Exeter (Exeter, New Hampshire)
Highland Park (Highland Park, Illinois)
CollegeMichigan (2009–2013)
PositionGuard
Career highlights and awards
As player:
  • 3x Academic All-Big Ten (2011–2013)

Prior to his ascension to his current position, he spent 7 and a half years in various roles for the Detroit Pistons of the NBA. He played college basketball for Michigan as a walk-on and was a 3x Academic All-Big Ten honoree. He served as captain of the national runner-up 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team. He was a two-year starter at Highland Park High School before spending a post-graduate season playing for Phillips Exeter Academy where he set a couple of school records.

He is the son of NBA and National Football League (NFL) sports agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports and Entertainment.

Early life edit

Bartelstein is from Highland Park, Illinois in the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area. He is the son of Mark and Sheri Bartelstein and has three sisters.[2] He played basketball with a core group of friends from second grade through organized high school basketball.[3] As a 10-year-old in 2000, Bartelstein played for the Highland Park 11-year-old traveling baseball team as a pitcher and attended a skills academy run by former St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguer John Stutz and professional baseball player Pete Dallas.[4] He also played his first year of organized basketball in the Highwood Small Fry youth basketball 2000 spring season.[5]

Because his father, Mark, was an NBA and NFL sports agent, Bartelstein had the opportunity to fill his bedroom wall with pictures of himself alongside many famous athletes.[2] The first picture he put on his bedroom of a non-relative was one with Bobby Phills. The first basketball game that he ever missed was the night he learned of Phills' death in an automobile accident in 2000. As he grew, he had the opportunity to have workouts with athletes such as Mo Williams, Bobby Simmons and Kirk Hinrich.[2]

In 2002, Bartelstein was one of the leaders of The Highwood Heat of the Highwood Small Fry basketball league. The team went 7–1 to earn a trip to Orlando for the Small Fry International youth basketball tournament.[6]

High school edit

A summer 2005 area recruiting guide listed Bartelstein as a player to watch.[7] As a 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) sophomore guard, Bartelstein was expected to start for Highland Park High School until he endured an ankle stress fracture that limited his season to 3 games.[3] He had to have screws put in his ankle.[2] He returned as a 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) junior reserve. He regularly reviewed game film of every high school game with his father, who helped him make acquaintance with several professional athletes, such as Brad Miller and Antoine Walker of the NBA and Kurt Warner of the NFL.[3]

At Highland Park, he was considered one of the leaders of the team (along with Chris Wroblewski).[8][9] Bartelstein's steal started a 15–0 run as part of the comeback in the 2007 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Class AA regional championship for the four-seeded Highland Park Giants against fifth-seeded John Hersey High School.[10]

Bartelstein scored 19 points on 5–6 three point shooting the help Highland Park won its 11th consecutive game during his senior season.[11][12] As of January of his 2008 senior season, he had NCAA Division III offers from New York University and Emory University as well as promising interest from some NCAA Division I programs such as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Northwestern and Pepperdine.[3] As a senior he made two all-tournament teams (Moline and Elgin). In April 2008, he committed to play for Phillips Exeter Academy.[13] He finished his senior season with a total of 51 three point shots, a 9.8 scoring average and 3.9 rebounds for a Highland Park team that finished as the 2008 IHSA Class 4A regional champions.[14][15] In the regional championship game for number 3 seeded Highland Park, Bartelstein posted 10 points in the 51–50 victory over number eleven seeded Waukegan High School.[16] The 2008 Highland Park senior class was the first in school history to have back-to-back 20-win seasons.[17] Because of his "bridge year" commitment, he was eligible to play an additional season of the AAU summer basketball circuit, where he posted multiple 30-point games.[18]

In the fall of 2008, Bartelstein nearly signed Division I scholarship offers with Elon University and then University of San Diego, but he was eventually attracted by the appeal of the Big Ten Conference and Michigan's Ross School of Business.[19] Michigan Head coach John Beilein had been a walk-on player himself and the 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team was co-captained by former walk-ons David Merritt and C.J. Lee who played significant roles.[20][21][22] While averaging 15.5 points per game, Bartelstein set two school records at Phillips Exeter: single-half scoring (21 points vs. New Hampton) and single-season three-pointers (52).[2] Because he had grown 7 inches late in high school, the extra year gave him a chance to grow into his body and show his potential.[23] The year marked progress in his "long-range shooting and off-the-dribble game", according to Beilein.[20] He was recruited by Penn and had walk-on offers from Michigan and Northwestern and claimed 9 Division I scholarship offers.[23] Bartelstein's Exeter coach, Malcolm Wesselink, confirmed 3 of these D I offers (San Diego, Wagner and Elon).[24] Bartelstein was connected to Michigan by former Beilein assistant Mike Maker.[24] He was in communication with athletes that he had met as a youth such as Chris Quinn and Shannon Brown during his recruitment.[2] On May 22, 2009, Bartelstein was announced by Beilein as one of two (along with Eso Akunne) preferred walk-on (non-scholarship) players to join an incoming 2009–10 class of six new players (Blake McLimans, Jordan Morgan, Darius Morris, and North Shore native Matt Vogrich).[23] Bartelstein and Akunne brought the number of walk-ons on the roster to 4 (with Eric Puls and Corey Person).[24] Morris, Vogrich and Akunne were all guards.[25]

College edit

 
Bartelstein is second from the right in this photo of the 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines

On November 14, 2009, in the 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines season opener and the first game of his college career against Northern Michigan Bartlestein played in what would be his career high 4 minutes.[26] He posted his first points on December 28, 2010, against (#11 ESPN/USA Today, #12 AP)[27] Purdue on a three point shot as a sophomore for the 2010–11 Wolverines.[26] He was one of 41 men's basketball 2010–11 Academic All-Big Ten selections.[28]

The March 4 victory over Penn State clinched a share of the 2011–12 Big Ten Conference season regular season championship for the 2011–12 team.[29] One of Bartelstein's 4 career assists came in an appearance in the February 5, 2012 rivalry game against (#10 ESPN/USA Today, #9 AP)[30] Michigan State in which he was credited with zero minutes played.[26] Bartelstein's' other points came on a three pointer against (#7-ranked)[31] Ohio State on March 10 in the 2012 Big Ten men's basketball tournament.[26] As a junior, Bartelstein was among 37 Academic All-Big Ten men's basketball players.[32]

Prior to the first exhibition game on November 1, 2012, Bartelstein was named team captain of the 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines.[33] Although Bartelstein was the official captain, he only played 10 minutes all season,[34] and the team was led on the court by Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr.[35] Despite his modest role in the games, he is noted for his "leadership, motivational abilities and commitment to success" according to Bleacher Report author Lee Schechter (especially as evidenced by his output in "The Bartelstein Blog").[36] On March 10, 2013, Michigan lost its regular season finale to Indiana (#2 AP/#2 Coaches),[37] failing to defend its conference co-championship.[38] Michigan celebrated senior day for five seniors: Akunne, Bartelstein, McLimans, Corey Person, and Vogrich.[39] The loss kept Michigan from its first undefeated home season since the 1976–77 team.[40] In the April 6 national semifinal against Syracuse, Michigan earned its thirty-first victory, the most since the 1992–93 team went 31–5.[41][42] Michigan lost the April 8, national championship game against Midwest number one seed Louisville by an 82–76 score.[43] Louisville's championship has since been vacated by the NCAA.[44][45] Bartelstein appeared in 2 tournament games (against VCU and Florida).[26] As a senior, Bartelstein was among the 38 Big Ten men's basketball players recognized as Winter Academic All-Big Ten for maintaining 3.0 averages.[46][47]

Six players from the 2012–13 Wolverines team that Bartelstein captained were future NBA draftees: Trey Burke (2013, 9th),[48][49] Tim Hardaway Jr. (2013, 24th),[50] Nik Stauskas (2014, 8th),[51] Mitch McGary (2014, 21st),[52][53] Glenn Robinson III (2014, 40th),[54][55] and Caris LeVert (2016, 20th).[56][57] Bartelstein's father became the agent for three of those players: his former roommate, Hardaway,[58][59] Stauskas,[60][61] and McGary[62] as well as future Wolverine and NBA player Derrick Walton.[63]

In September 2013, Bartelstein released an ebook that chronicled Michigan's rise from a sub-.500 basketball team to the NCAA Championship game. It included elements from his blog, photos, videos and contributions by his past teammates.[64]

Professional career edit

 
Bartelstein was named CEO of the Footprint Center (pictured in 2022), which is home to the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury as well as the Arizona Rattlers.

In August 2015, Bartelstein and Wroblewski hosted a two-day basketball skills development camp in the North Shore for youth between 3rd and 12th grade. At the time Bartelstein was a 7th and 8th grade basketball coach in Highland Park.[65] Bartelstein was hired by the Detroit Pistons in October 2015 "as an assistant to Palace Sports & Entertainment vice chair Arn Tellem".[66] In his 8 years with the Pistons, he went on to hold the titles of Chief of Staff and then Executive Vice President of Business and Basketball Operations before becoming Assistant General Manager in June 2022. Then he was hired as CEO of the Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury and the operating entity for Footprint Center on April 10, 2023. Among his notable roles for the Pistons was his oversight of the design and construction of the Henry Ford-Detroit Pistons Performance Center. His role as CEO gives him authority over business operations while the team tasked its basketball operations to its President of Basketball Operations and General Manager.[67]

Mat Ishbia bought a majority share of the Suns from Robert Sarver in February 2023,[68] leading to the resignation of Phoenix Suns president and CEO Jason Rowley and clearing the way for an organizational cultural reset.[69] The story regarding Bartelstein's hiring as part of an overhaul by Ishbia, who like Bartelstein was a walk-on Big Ten basketball player (for Michigan State), broke on March 4, 2023.[70] Bartelstein was not officially named CEO until April 10, 2023.[67] During his first season as Suns CEO, Bartelstein played a pivotal role in orchestrating trades that saw the acquisition of Bradley Beal, Jusuf Nurkić, and Grayson Allen.[71]

See also edit

Notes edit

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January 01, 1970
josh, bartelstein, born, july, 1989, american, basketball, executive, former, college, basketball, player, currently, phoenix, suns, national, basketball, association, phoenix, mercury, women, national, basketball, association, wnba, footprint, center, phoenix. Josh Bartelstein born July 17 1989 1 is an American basketball executive and former college basketball player who is currently the CEO of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association NBA Phoenix Mercury of the Women s National Basketball Association WNBA and the Footprint Center Josh BartelsteinPhoenix SunsPositionCEO Phoenix Suns Phoenix Mercury and Footprint CenterLeagueNBA WNBAPersonal informationBorn 1989 07 17 July 17 1989 age 34 Listed height6 ft 3 in 1 91 m Listed weight210 lb 95 kg Career informationHigh schoolPhillips Exeter Exeter New Hampshire Highland Park Highland Park Illinois CollegeMichigan 2009 2013 PositionGuardCareer highlights and awardsAs player 3x Academic All Big Ten 2011 2013 Prior to his ascension to his current position he spent 7 and a half years in various roles for the Detroit Pistons of the NBA He played college basketball for Michigan as a walk on and was a 3x Academic All Big Ten honoree He served as captain of the national runner up 2012 13 Michigan Wolverines men s basketball team He was a two year starter at Highland Park High School before spending a post graduate season playing for Phillips Exeter Academy where he set a couple of school records He is the son of NBA and National Football League NFL sports agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports and Entertainment Contents 1 Early life 2 High school 3 College 4 Professional career 5 See also 6 Notes 7 External linksEarly life editBartelstein is from Highland Park Illinois in the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area He is the son of Mark and Sheri Bartelstein and has three sisters 2 He played basketball with a core group of friends from second grade through organized high school basketball 3 As a 10 year old in 2000 Bartelstein played for the Highland Park 11 year old traveling baseball team as a pitcher and attended a skills academy run by former St Louis Cardinals minor leaguer John Stutz and professional baseball player Pete Dallas 4 He also played his first year of organized basketball in the Highwood Small Fry youth basketball 2000 spring season 5 Because his father Mark was an NBA and NFL sports agent Bartelstein had the opportunity to fill his bedroom wall with pictures of himself alongside many famous athletes 2 The first picture he put on his bedroom of a non relative was one with Bobby Phills The first basketball game that he ever missed was the night he learned of Phills death in an automobile accident in 2000 As he grew he had the opportunity to have workouts with athletes such as Mo Williams Bobby Simmons and Kirk Hinrich 2 In 2002 Bartelstein was one of the leaders of The Highwood Heat of the Highwood Small Fry basketball league The team went 7 1 to earn a trip to Orlando for the Small Fry International youth basketball tournament 6 High school editA summer 2005 area recruiting guide listed Bartelstein as a player to watch 7 As a 5 ft 9 in 1 75 m sophomore guard Bartelstein was expected to start for Highland Park High School until he endured an ankle stress fracture that limited his season to 3 games 3 He had to have screws put in his ankle 2 He returned as a 6 ft 1 in 1 85 m junior reserve He regularly reviewed game film of every high school game with his father who helped him make acquaintance with several professional athletes such as Brad Miller and Antoine Walker of the NBA and Kurt Warner of the NFL 3 At Highland Park he was considered one of the leaders of the team along with Chris Wroblewski 8 9 Bartelstein s steal started a 15 0 run as part of the comeback in the 2007 Illinois High School Association IHSA Class AA regional championship for the four seeded Highland Park Giants against fifth seeded John Hersey High School 10 Bartelstein scored 19 points on 5 6 three point shooting the help Highland Park won its 11th consecutive game during his senior season 11 12 As of January of his 2008 senior season he had NCAA Division III offers from New York University and Emory University as well as promising interest from some NCAA Division I programs such as University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Northwestern and Pepperdine 3 As a senior he made two all tournament teams Moline and Elgin In April 2008 he committed to play for Phillips Exeter Academy 13 He finished his senior season with a total of 51 three point shots a 9 8 scoring average and 3 9 rebounds for a Highland Park team that finished as the 2008 IHSA Class 4A regional champions 14 15 In the regional championship game for number 3 seeded Highland Park Bartelstein posted 10 points in the 51 50 victory over number eleven seeded Waukegan High School 16 The 2008 Highland Park senior class was the first in school history to have back to back 20 win seasons 17 Because of his bridge year commitment he was eligible to play an additional season of the AAU summer basketball circuit where he posted multiple 30 point games 18 In the fall of 2008 Bartelstein nearly signed Division I scholarship offers with Elon University and then University of San Diego but he was eventually attracted by the appeal of the Big Ten Conference and Michigan s Ross School of Business 19 Michigan Head coach John Beilein had been a walk on player himself and the 2008 09 Michigan Wolverines men s basketball team was co captained by former walk ons David Merritt and C J Lee who played significant roles 20 21 22 While averaging 15 5 points per game Bartelstein set two school records at Phillips Exeter single half scoring 21 points vs New Hampton and single season three pointers 52 2 Because he had grown 7 inches late in high school the extra year gave him a chance to grow into his body and show his potential 23 The year marked progress in his long range shooting and off the dribble game according to Beilein 20 He was recruited by Penn and had walk on offers from Michigan and Northwestern and claimed 9 Division I scholarship offers 23 Bartelstein s Exeter coach Malcolm Wesselink confirmed 3 of these D I offers San Diego Wagner and Elon 24 Bartelstein was connected to Michigan by former Beilein assistant Mike Maker 24 He was in communication with athletes that he had met as a youth such as Chris Quinn and Shannon Brown during his recruitment 2 On May 22 2009 Bartelstein was announced by Beilein as one of two along with Eso Akunne preferred walk on non scholarship players to join an incoming 2009 10 class of six new players Blake McLimans Jordan Morgan Darius Morris and North Shore native Matt Vogrich 23 Bartelstein and Akunne brought the number of walk ons on the roster to 4 with Eric Puls and Corey Person 24 Morris Vogrich and Akunne were all guards 25 College edit nbsp Bartelstein is second from the right in this photo of the 2012 13 Michigan Wolverines On November 14 2009 in the 2009 10 Michigan Wolverines season opener and the first game of his college career against Northern Michigan Bartlestein played in what would be his career high 4 minutes 26 He posted his first points on December 28 2010 against 11 ESPN USA Today 12 AP 27 Purdue on a three point shot as a sophomore for the 2010 11 Wolverines 26 He was one of 41 men s basketball 2010 11 Academic All Big Ten selections 28 The March 4 victory over Penn State clinched a share of the 2011 12 Big Ten Conference season regular season championship for the 2011 12 team 29 One of Bartelstein s 4 career assists came in an appearance in the February 5 2012 rivalry game against 10 ESPN USA Today 9 AP 30 Michigan State in which he was credited with zero minutes played 26 Bartelstein s other points came on a three pointer against 7 ranked 31 Ohio State on March 10 in the 2012 Big Ten men s basketball tournament 26 As a junior Bartelstein was among 37 Academic All Big Ten men s basketball players 32 Prior to the first exhibition game on November 1 2012 Bartelstein was named team captain of the 2012 13 Michigan Wolverines 33 Although Bartelstein was the official captain he only played 10 minutes all season 34 and the team was led on the court by Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr 35 Despite his modest role in the games he is noted for his leadership motivational abilities and commitment to success according to Bleacher Report author Lee Schechter especially as evidenced by his output in The Bartelstein Blog 36 On March 10 2013 Michigan lost its regular season finale to Indiana 2 AP 2 Coaches 37 failing to defend its conference co championship 38 Michigan celebrated senior day for five seniors Akunne Bartelstein McLimans Corey Person and Vogrich 39 The loss kept Michigan from its first undefeated home season since the 1976 77 team 40 In the April 6 national semifinal against Syracuse Michigan earned its thirty first victory the most since the 1992 93 team went 31 5 41 42 Michigan lost the April 8 national championship game against Midwest number one seed Louisville by an 82 76 score 43 Louisville s championship has since been vacated by the NCAA 44 45 Bartelstein appeared in 2 tournament games against VCU and Florida 26 As a senior Bartelstein was among the 38 Big Ten men s basketball players recognized as Winter Academic All Big Ten for maintaining 3 0 averages 46 47 Six players from the 2012 13 Wolverines team that Bartelstein captained were future NBA draftees Trey Burke 2013 9th 48 49 Tim Hardaway Jr 2013 24th 50 Nik Stauskas 2014 8th 51 Mitch McGary 2014 21st 52 53 Glenn Robinson III 2014 40th 54 55 and Caris LeVert 2016 20th 56 57 Bartelstein s father became the agent for three of those players his former roommate Hardaway 58 59 Stauskas 60 61 and McGary 62 as well as future Wolverine and NBA player Derrick Walton 63 In September 2013 Bartelstein released an ebook that chronicled Michigan s rise from a sub 500 basketball team to the NCAA Championship game It included elements from his blog photos videos and contributions by his past teammates 64 Professional career edit nbsp Bartelstein was named CEO of the Footprint Center pictured in 2022 which is home to the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury as well as the Arizona Rattlers In August 2015 Bartelstein and Wroblewski hosted a two day basketball skills development camp in the North Shore for youth between 3rd and 12th grade At the time Bartelstein was a 7th and 8th grade basketball coach in Highland Park 65 Bartelstein was hired by the Detroit Pistons in October 2015 as an assistant to Palace Sports amp Entertainment vice chair Arn Tellem 66 In his 8 years with the Pistons he went on to hold the titles of Chief of Staff and then Executive Vice President of Business and Basketball Operations before becoming Assistant General Manager in June 2022 Then he was hired as CEO of the Phoenix Suns Phoenix Mercury and the operating entity for Footprint Center on April 10 2023 Among his notable roles for the Pistons was his oversight of the design and construction of the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center His role as CEO gives him authority over business operations while the team tasked its basketball operations to its President of Basketball Operations and General Manager 67 Mat Ishbia bought a majority share of the Suns from Robert Sarver in February 2023 68 leading to the resignation of Phoenix Suns president and CEO Jason Rowley and clearing the way for an organizational cultural reset 69 The story regarding Bartelstein s hiring as part of an overhaul by Ishbia who like Bartelstein was a walk on Big Ten basketball player for Michigan State broke on March 4 2023 70 Bartelstein was not officially named CEO until April 10 2023 67 During his first season as Suns CEO Bartelstein played a pivotal role in orchestrating trades that saw the acquisition of Bradley Beal Jusuf Nurkic and Grayson Allen 71 See also edit nbsp Sports portalNotes edit Josh Bartelstein Retrieved October 9 2023 a b c d e f Rothstein Michael November 29 2009 Walk on took long route to U M Bartelstein whose dad is a famous agent went to prep school first The Grand Rapids Press p C6 Retrieved May 16 2023 a b c d Masterson Dave January 21 2008 Reign maker SPOTLIGHT ON HIGHLAND PARK GIANTS Josh Bartelstein shigh arching 3 point shots are one reason Highland Park is one of this area s top basketball teams Lake County News Sun p 36 Retrieved May 16 2023 Sagendorph Marcia July 18 2000 EX PROS A HIT WITH BASEBALL INSTRUCTION Lake Edition Chicago Tribune p 2L 3 ProQuest 419213965 Retrieved May 15 2023 SMALL FRY BASKETBALL ROSTERS SET FOR HIGHWOOD S 2000 SEASON Lake County News Sun January 3 2000 p B3 Retrieved May 15 2023 Youth Basketball Antioch sixth grade boys go 1 2 in busy week Lake County News Sun January 3 2000 p b 1 Retrieved May 17 2023 Schultheis Golemba earn bronze Gurnee Review November 17 2005 p 149 Retrieved May 16 2023 Sakamoto Bob July 18 2000 Expect good shows Proviso West boys tournament may be strongest of a strong lot Chicago Tribune p 6 ProQuest 420694711 Retrieved May 16 2023 a well coached Highland Park team led by Chris Wroblewski and Josh Bartelstein O Brien Michael March 4 2008 After regional bloodbath Public League has work to do Chicago Sun Times p 61 Retrieved May 16 2023 The Saxons with Cully Payne and the Giants with Chris Wroblewski and Josh Bartlestein sic both have top notch players Maciaszek Marty March 3 2007 Threes stop falling in Rowley s finale Daily Herald p 9 Retrieved May 19 2023 Lemon John December 28 2007 Late 3 powers Batavia by Elgin Daily Herald p 12 ProQuest 313244282 Retrieved May 19 2023 Helfgot Mike December 28 2007 Bartelstein shows long distance form Chicago Tribune p 11 ProQuest 420622477 Retrieved May 19 2023 Shalin Dan April 21 2008 Deerfield hires Just as boys basketball coach Antioch Review p 61 Retrieved May 16 2023 HP s Wroblewski Player of the Year Antioch Review March 27 2008 Retrieved May 16 2023 Masterson Dave March 1 2008 Waukegan s upset bid falls one point short Prep Boys Basketball Highland Park Regional HIGHLAND PARK 51 WAUKEGAN 50 Lake County News Sun p 53 Retrieved May 16 2023 Highland Park edges Waukegan Daily Herald March 1 2008 p 9 Retrieved May 16 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