NCAA No Longer Mandating Dome Regionals Sources: USA Basketball HQs To Relocate NBA Approves Ranadive Group Colangelo Staying With Raptors, Loses GM Title NBA Kings Tix In High Demand NBPA Meets With NHL, MLB Union Heads Sacto Group Looks To Finalize NBA Kings Deal Collins: U.S. Ready For Gay Basketball Player ESPN Issues Apology For Broussard Remarks What Marketing Opportunities Await For Collins?
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NCAA Scrapping Requirement For Tournament Regional Games To Be Played In Domes
Published June 13, 2013The NCAA is "no longer mandating" that a men's basketball tournament regional be "played in a dome a year i... ...tmosphere compared to what the comforts of a true basketball arena can provide.
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USA Basketball Reportedly Planning Move To Tempe As Part Of ASU Project
Published June 11, 2013USA Basketball "plans to relocate to Tempe" as part of an Arizon... Sources said that USA Basketball, currently located in Colorado Springs, is "expec... " This marks the second time that USA Basketball has "chosen to relocate to the Valley." The timetable for USA Basketball's relocation "is unclear.
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NBA BOG Unanimously Approves Sale Of Kings To Ranadive Ownership Group
Published May 29, 2013" Bhathal said, "After soccer, basketball is the largest global sport and, in our opinion,... We believe that basketball will be the leading American sport of the 21st ce... Basketball is global, multicultural and talent-driven. ...cramento, Jason Jones reported Kings President of Basketball Operations Geoff Petrie, whose contract "expires...
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Bryan Colangelo Staying With Raptors, But Will Cede Control Of Basketball Operations
Published May 21, 2013...n with the team as President but will give up all basketball-related decisions to an incoming GM. Colangelo wi... ll advise Leiweke on basketball-related matters while contributing to the busines... ...Sports over the weekend reported Nuggets Exec VP/Basketball Operations Masai Ujiri is at the "top of that lis... ...that Colangelo still "considers himself to be a 'basketball guy,' so how long he remains with the Raptors in...
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NBA Kings Taking Ticket Renewal Calls At "Frenzied Pace"; Hansen Not Done In Seattle
Published May 21, 2013NBA Kings officials yesterday said that they are receiving season-ticket renewal requests at an "average of one seat per minute," according to Lillis & Bizjak of the SACRAMENTO BEE. Kings PR Dir Chris Clark said, "That's a frenzied pace." Clark said that the team's ticket sales operations will broaden at 9:00am PT today to "include accepting reservations for full-season tickets from fans who currently are not season ticket holders." The team is expected to "launch sales sometime this summer f...
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NBPA Leaders Meet With NHL, MLB Union Heads To Figure Out Potential Hunter Successors
Published May 21, 2013NBPA officials met with NHLPA Exec Dir Don Fehr and MLBPA Exec Dir Michael Weiner last month as "part of their effort to find a new head for the players union," according to Liz Mullen of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. NBPA Exec Committee member Jerry Stackhouse and NBPA Deputy General Counsel Ron Klempner, who has been acting as the Exec Dir since Billy Hunter's departure, "attended a meeting with Fehr and Weiner at the MLBPA headquarters." Stackhouse said that the players are "in 'no rush' to repl...
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Sacramento Group Looks To Finalize NBA Kings Deal At Upcoming BOG Meeting
Published May 01, 2013Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson yesterday said that the group bidding to keep the NBA Kings in the city “will push to put a finalized sales deal in front of” the NBA BOG when it meets in mid-May, according to a front-page piece by Bizjak, Lillis & Kasler of the SACRAMENTO BEE. Johnson said that he and the group “think the path is now clear for them to negotiate a deal” with Kings Owner the Maloof family, which “wants to sell its majority stake in the team.” The Seattle group, led by hedge fund...
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Collins Details Reasons For Coming Out, Says Country "Ready" For Gay Basketball Player
Published April 30, 2013...the country is ready for supporting an openly gay basketball player.
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ESPN Issues "Tepid Apology" For Broussard's Remarks On Collins' Sexuality
Published April 30, 2013...pressed goes well beyond his role as an expert on basketball.
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Collins Could Land Lucrative Marketing Opportunities Following Announcement
Published April 30, 2013Wizards C Jason Collins’ status as the first active male athlete in a major U.S. pro sport to announce he is gay "could reap huge rewards" from a marketing standpoint, according to advertising experts cited by Marie Szaniszlo of the BOSTON HERALD. Ft. Lauderdale-based Gay Ad Network CEO Mark Elderkin said, “The gay market is a big market, so this is a tremendous opportunity for Jason. He’s an all-around good athlete with a clean record -- all the attributes of a spokesman for a national brand...
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Collins Has Good Shot At Making NBA Roster; Age, Productivity Of Most Concern
Published April 30, 2013...t season, “It might not be the best fit for their basketball team, but it’s a fit for where we need to go as a... Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge said, "He may or may not b... ...make him the bigger deal by making him an active basketball player” (“Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable,”... ” As a “pure basketball decision, it looks like a pretty close call” (NYT...
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Welts Nearly Gets Traffic Ticket After Receiving Call About Collins' Announcement
Published April 30, 2013Warriors President & COO Rick Welts nearly got “into $200 worth of trouble” when he was called “to give him a heads-up” about Wizards C Jason Collins’ pending announcement he was coming out as gay, according to Tim Reynolds of the AP. Welts, who two years ago publically revealed he was gay, was “driving, and not using a hands-free device that California law dictates,” and was pulled over. But Welts said that he was “let out of the costly ticket after telling his story to the California Highwa...
