Gordon Gund was formely the principal owner of the NBA franchise the Cleveland Cavaliers, a co-owner of the San Jose Sharks NHL team, and remains the CEO of Gund Investment Corporation. He was born Oct. 15, 1939, and is a native of Cleveland. He gradually began going blind in the 1960s because of the disease retinitis pigmentosa. By 1970, Gund was totally blind. The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The Cleveland Cavaliers are a National Basketball Association team based in Cleveland, Ohio. ... The San Jose Sharks are a National Hockey League team based in San Jose, California. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Normal vision. ...

Gund and his brother, George, bought the Cleveland Cavaliers more than 20 years ago in order to keep the team in Cleveland and at The Coliseum. Gund has never been able to see a basketball game in all the years he has owned the Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers are a National Basketball Association team based in Cleveland, Ohio. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... See Coliseum for the structure in Rome, or Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the structure in Los Angeles. ...

Under Gund's ownership, attendance figures started to rise. In the 1994-1995 season, Gund Arena was built and replaced The Coliseum, and attendance figures stayed high. According to the Cavaliers' media guide, the Cavs have the highest attendance figures in franchise history in 15 of the last 16 seasons, heading into the 2004-2005 season. Gund Arena is a multipurpose arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. ... See Coliseum for the structure in Rome, or Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the structure in Los Angeles. ...

Gund is the former President of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. He went to college at Harvard and has honorary doctorates from Gothenburg University in Sweden, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Whittier College and the University of Vermont. He serves as director of the Kellogg Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, and of Corning Incorporated in Corning, New York. The First Parish Church is a landmark on Main Street in Groton. ... Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Gothenburg University Gothenburg University, or Göteborgs universitet, is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. ... University of Maryland, Baltimore, located on 56 acres (230,000 m²) in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, is part of the University System of Maryland. ... Whittier College is a private Quaker college in Whittier, California. ... Williams Science Hall, University of Vermont, c. ... This article is about the city of Battle Creek, Michigan. ... Corning Glass Works (NYSE: GLW) is a U.S. manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for technical and scientific applications. ... Corning, New York is the name of two places in Steuben County, New York, although it most frequently means the City of Corning. ...

Gund and his wife, Llura, reside in Princeton, New Jersey. They have two children. Princeton highlighted in Mercer County. ...