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Blazers win NBA promo award
The Portland Trail Blazers have won this year’s NBA award for best local team promotion held during the recently completed regular season. The Blazers were recognized with the award at the NBA’s annual sponsorship meetings, held last week in Los Angeles. As was the case last year (th ...
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NBA ready to discuss rights deal
The NBA plans to start informal negotiations on its next media rights deal this summer, two years before its current ESPN and Turner Sports deals wrap up, according to several sources. The current contracts run through the 2015-16 season. On average, the networks are paying the league a combined ...
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Progress slow on new NBPA chief
It took just one short meeting to oust Billy Hunter as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. Finding a new union leader is proving to be a far more drawn-out effort. The union has yet to hire an executive search firm to replace Hunter, who was fired in February. And w ...
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Leiweke: Don’t underestimate me or MLSE
As Tim Leiweke heads to Toronto to begin putting his imprint on the Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment conglomerate, the newly hired CEO knows the talk that is following him north of the border. “I hear people saying that the MLSE platform is not near the platform of AEG and that I won&r ...
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Pricing helps NBA set record
NBA franchises posted record revenue at the turnstiles this year, as teams reported more per-game gate revenue for the 2012-13 season than in any prior campaign, according to league officials. The NBA declined to disclose the specific amounts, but it did report closing out its regular season this ...
Stern sees opportunity in India
NBA Commissioner David Stern recently returned from his first trip to India. The twofold mission of the trip: Help grow the sport of basketball in that country and help develop the NBA’s brand there as well. NBA Commissioner ...
NBA playoff activation has global flavor
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Scouting Kings' bidders
The NBA is closing in on selecting one of two groups that are bidding for the Sacramento Kings. On Thursday and Friday, the league’s owners will meet in New York for further discussion on the matter, and while a vote on the future of the franchise isn’t likely then, a decision on the Kin ...
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The NBA's ticketing tactics
With the Miami Heat in Chicago to face the Bulls on a Thursday night in February, a fan who needed a ticket would have found only a smattering of seats available, all of them scattered singles, on the team website. A click away, on StubHub, tickets were moving briskly, albeit expensively, as they us ...
NBA eyes Kings financing plans
With the NBA considering two competing bids for the Sacramento Kings, league scrutiny is falling on the financing differences between the investor groups, one of which wants to keep the team in its current home, the other wishing to relocate the franchise to Seattle. The Sacramento group, which i ...
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