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NBA Balancing Financial, Safety Concerns Amid Return Talks

Discussion around the NBA’s return has "not so subtly shifted further from player safety and closer to financial security over the past week, leading to increased optimism" about resuming the season, according to Ben Rohrbach of YAHOO SPORTS. The league "now appears to be weighing the economic impact of COVID-19 more heavily than the best practices against its spread." There is "really only one question that needs to be answered, god forbid: What if someone dies as a result of the NBA reopening too soon?" Rohrback: "We cannot let the desire to crown a champion outweigh the resulting losses" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 5/15). 

CP3 SAYS PLAYERS WANT TO PLAY: Thunder G and NBPA President Chris Paul on Friday said the “consensus around the league” is players “want to play badly.” He said there are “a lot of hard conversations that have to be made, but with the team around us ultimately we’ll get to where we want to.” Paul said he does not “have all the answers” regarding the circumstances required for a return to play, but noted “people are working tirelessly trying to figure it out.” Paul: “What is normal now? That’s what we’re trying to figure it out, what it looks like. Until we find those answers and we can come up with an actual plan, right now it’s basically sit and wait. The virus is in control” (“The Jump,” ESPN, 5/15).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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