The National Basketball Association will borrow 175 million dollars to serve as aid to teams that might struggle
1) As the title suggests, lower ticket prices. Right now, I can find the money that represents a pretty large part of the dollars coming in to these NBA teams. Fourth level tickets to a Boston v. OKC(the worst team in the league), at Boston, are about $77.00. Thats the fourth level. the nose bleed seats as they say. "But wait edgrimly, these are tickets for a premier team." That is correct. How about a match between OKC and Sacramento(another one of the bad teams.) $68.50 in OKC. That is again level 4. Try taking your family of 4 to these games, what with food and all, its a pretty big deal.
2) Stop paying millions of dollars to 18 year old children. Sure all of that money at the clubs is "stimulating" the economy. This is what rookies got paid in ought 7. Its probably more now. Paying a kid out of high school that much money is wrong on so many levels. But we're doing our best to talk the economy of the game here. Granted, in the NBA, rookies can make or break a team. See LeBron. But for one of these first 15 teams that are borrowing money, does it make sense? Granted, these salaries by no means are larger than MLB, but at least baseball has had a resurgence in the past couple of years thanks to steroids.
3) Take a tip from NCAA and play real basketball. There are a couple of teams that I could name that play real team basketball, and have for the last few years. San Antonio. And Detroit when they were good. Sure, coaches in college make a bunch of money, but they also bring it in to the school. They force their players to play defense, long lost on most NBA coaches, and do much more with much less talent. It may be hard to understand, but basketball is a team sport. Once again lost on most NBA coaches. See AI. Throwing up 30 shots per game is not playing with a team in mind.
Like it or not, this was bound to happen. Football does decent, and their ticket prices are pretty high as well. Baseball has been doing OK, despite AROD and the juice. Shit, even the NHL is making changes to get more money and stay in the black. Like it or not, you had to see something like this coming. You cant fund a national franchise on fancy commercials and shitty product alone. When some players are telling the media that they will go play in Europe for more money, you have issues. The point is, I would like to be a fan. I have been to one NFL game and numerous MLB games. I would like to watch the NBA on TV and not get pissed. But the fact is I do. Too much money and not enough product make it not affordable.
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Why aren't there any words on this blog post? Just a title and a lot of blank space. Weird.
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