How Cynt Marshall won over an NBA front office: What she told High Point University students about it

In 2018, Cynt Marshall walked into a job she barely understood. She had agreed to meet with Mark Cuban, then the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, about becoming the franchise’s chief executive, despite knowing little about how an NBA team is actually run.

What happened in the days that followed became one of the defining stories of her career. It is the one she chose to tell students at High Point University in North Carolina this spring....