George William "Billy" Hunter (born November 5, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) is a former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), the players' union of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins. He graduated from Delaware Township High School in Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill Township), New Jersey, and played college football for Syracuse University. While a student-athlete at Syracuse, "he helped organize the school's boycott of Southern schools whose stadiums were segregated" He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Following his football career, Hunter attended law school and became an attorney. One of the youngest United States Attorneys in history, he was appointed to Northern California, where he prosecuted high-profile Federal defendants including members of Hells Angels and the Black Panther Party. He has served as the executive director of the NBPA since 1996.
Hunter has received criticism for employing many family members within the NBPA. An external audit inititated by Derek Fisher uncovered numerous irregularities, and a select committee of NBA players unanimously ousted Hunter from his position on Feb. 16, 2013, during the All-Star break.,
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“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)
“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)