When the NBA granted the Mavericks an expansion team in 1980, Jan Hubbard became the first Star-Telegram writer to cover the team. That began a career of more than two decades of not only writing about the NBA, but also working in the league office in New York.
After covering the Mavericks and NBA for nine years for the Star-Telegram and Morning News, Hubbard spent four years at New York Newsday and then accepted a job as media relations director for the NBA. He later became head of publications and worked at the league office for eight years before returning to work in the D-FW area, where he covered the Cowboys, Rangers, Mavericks and TCU for the Star-Telegram.
Hubbard, a native of Dallas, has written three books on the NBA and also was editor of the last official encyclopedia produced by the NBA.