Pon Sports
NBA Salary Cap Strategy

Pon Sports is an NBA cap strategy lab, a boutique front office or agency for hire.


Dedicated to the craft of NBA roster construction, Pon Sports applies deep salary cap expertise, bespoke tools and modeling, and strategic insights to deliver executive-ready presentations — Built to your instruction and tailored to your needs.

Matt Huang moved to New York City to attend law school and build a career in the sports and entertainment industry, gaining experience with: NYCFC, the Milwaukee Bucks, the National Football League, and currently NBCUniversal, where he supports labor relations through strategy and data analytics. His approach prioritizes party values and needs, aligning opposing interests through: first-principles reasoning, deep salary cap expertise, and bespoke modeling that analyzes leverage, risk, and opportunity across both short and long-term cap horizons.

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George Kilzi brings a background in large-scale project management into the sports space through advanced training and applied work focused on organizational strategic decision making. He is currently earning a dual MBA, completing an Executive MBA from Florida International University and a Professional MBA in Sport Management from the Real Madrid Graduate School at Universidad Europea, and holds a Global Sports Management Certificate from NYU. He works as a Basketball Live Performance Data Scout, providing real-time coverage of NCAA Division I men’s college basketball games across Los Angeles County, and is a USA Basketball Gold Licensed coach. His work examines how analytical inputs, competitive context, and structural constraints are weighed and translated into front office decision making.

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“Study the hard while it’s easy.
Do big things while they’re small.
The hardest jobs in the world start out easy,
the great affairs of the world start small.

So the wise soul, by never dealing with great things,
gets great things done.”

- Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin