George William "Billy" Hunter (born November 5, 1942 in Camden

Camden, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

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) is the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association

National Basketball Players Association

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 (NBPA), the players' union of the National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

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 (NBA). He is a former American football

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 wide receiver

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 in the National Football League

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 (NFL) for the Washington Redskins

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 and Miami Dolphins

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. He graduated from Delaware Township High School

Cherry Hill High School West

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 in Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill Township

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

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), New Jersey, and played college football

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 for Syracuse University

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. While a student-athlete at Syracuse, "he helped organize the school's boycott of Southern schools whose stadiums were segregated"

Following his football career, Hunter attended law school and became an attorney. One of the youngest United States Attorney

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s in history, he was appointed to Northern California, where he prosecuted high-profile Federal defendants including members of Hells Angels

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 and the Black Panther Party

Black Panther Party

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. He has served as the executive director of the NBPA since 1996.