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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
FORM 3 Washington, D.C. 20549
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INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
Print or Type Responses)
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person 2. Date of Event 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Requiring Statement
NBA Media Ventures, LLC (Month/Day/Year) Convera Corporation (CNVR)
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 12/21/00 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
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3. I.R.S. Identification Director X 10% Owner
Number of Reporting ----- -----
450 Harmon Meadow Boulevard Person, if an entity Officer (give Other (specify
(Voluntary) ----- title below) ------ below)
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Street ---------------------------------------
Secaucus New Jersey 07094
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(City) (State) (Zip)
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6. If Amendment, Date of
Original (Month/Day/ Year)
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7. Individual or Joint/Group
Filing (check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
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Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned From: Direct (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 4) (D) or Indirect
(I) (Instr. 5)
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Class A Common Stock 4,746,221 D
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 5(b)(v).
SEC 1473(7-96)
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FORM 3 (continued) Table II-- Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options,
convertible securities)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date Exer- 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying 4. Conversion
(Instr. 4) cisable and Derivative Security or
Expiration Date (Instr. 4) Exercise
(Month/Day/Year) Price of
Deri-
vative
Security
None
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Amount
Date Expira- or
Exer- tion Title Number
cisable Date of
Shares
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below below
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5. Owner- 6. Name of Indirect
ship Beneficial Ownership
Form of (Instr. 5)
Deriv-
ative
Security:
Direct
(D) or
Indirect
(I)
(Instr. 5)
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By: NBA Media Ventures, LLC
/s/ Edwin S. Desser December 22, 2000
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Edwin S. Desser, Executive Vice President Date
on behalf of NBA Media Ventures, LL
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts
constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient,
See Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not Page 2
required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number SEC 1473 (7-96)
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