Age: 30
Title: President, National Basketball Association of Afghanistan
PRO: This Kabul native makes up for his youth and inexperience with sheer audacity, resurrecting Afghanistan's national team from war-induced dormancy. His home court? The stadium where the Taliban used to execute prisoners.
CON: No salary. No budget. No team jerseys. The government is too busy fighting a war to spend money on sports.
Best and Worst Sports Executives 2008
There is a whole other game that goes on behind the scenes in any sport. TIME has chosen some of the notable and not so notable sports executives and asks you to vote on who plays the game best