Basketball Business Research Intern: Summer 2027

The role

A paid twelve-week internship for a student who wants to learn how basketball contracts, salary caps, NIL and international transfers actually work, from the rule text up. You research, fact-check and maintain the library, directories and key figures on mm3sports.com under the founder’s supervision. You are on payroll from day one, and the work you produce is published. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis through spring 2027.

What you will do

• Fact-check articles and blog posts against primary sources: collective bargaining agreements, NCAA bylaws, FIBA regulations and league releases, logging every number to the source that proves it.
• Keep the team, college and FIBA directories and the yearly key figures page current, and flag anything that changed rather than guessing.
• Track the business calendar: rookie extension deadlines, free agency, the transfer portal, agent certification windows and draft dates, in one weekly sheet.
• Draft first versions of glossary entries, explainer sections and comparison tables for the founder to edit.
• Build salary and contract tables from public data and recompute every percentage and total before anything is published.
• Keep photo license records and credit lines in order for every image on the site.
• Turn published articles into draft Instagram captions and carousel outlines for @mm3sports.
• Complete one research project of your own by the end of the summer, presented to the founder.

What this role is not. Interns never contact, recruit or represent players, and never see client files or contract negotiations. Representation stays with the certified agent. This is a research and publishing role.

Required qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program, or graduating in 2027. Any major.
• Available thirty to forty hours a week for twelve weeks between June and August 2027.
• Able to work during Pacific time business hours.
• Genuine care about accuracy: you would rather ask than publish something that might be wrong.
• Discretion with unpublished work, with a confidentiality agreement on file.
• Comfortable in spreadsheets and documents. The research method and site tools are taught.

Preferred

Coursework in sports management, business, law, economics, journalism or data; work in an athletics department, on a team staff or at a student newspaper; familiarity with the NBA or WNBA collective bargaining agreement; Spanish fluency.

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