"It is a significant issue for our league."
"Decisions of this kind do not merely implicate issues of player health and team performance on the court; they also can affect fans and business partners, impact our reputation, and damage the perception of our game."
These statements were made by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in a memo delivered to teams on Monday. Were they regarding a situation that was as detrimental to the league as the rampant cocaine abuse in the 1970s and 1980s? No.
Were they in response to a rise in physical play in the 1990s that led to a more brutal brand of basketball that was curbed in the mid and late 1990s? No.
These comments were made in response to a new epidemic that is allegedly plaguing the league: the resting
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Silver's memo about teams resting players also calls for "significant penalties" if teams do not follow league rules for reporting player injuries and illnesses. The commissioner stated it is "unacceptable for owners to be uninvolved or defer decision-making on this topic to others in their organizations".
What is the NBA's argument for such resistance on prohibiting resting players?
One layer of this onion is how upset it makes the NBA's television partners. That part can be understood. ESPN/ABC and TNT pay a lot of money to broadcast NBA games. The current deal the NBA has with its partners adds up to nearly $3 billion. Multiple games are broadcast per week on both ESPN/ABC, TNT, and to a lesser extent NBA
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Show me a graph. Show me "Joe NBA Fan" on camera saying that the rest of NBA players is upsetting them.
I have not seen such things, so invoking the idea that "fans are upset" is lazy.
If the fans have anything to be upset about, it's that the average cost of an NBA ticket has risen every year since the 2010-2011 season. With new and bigger TV deals coming in, that cost will likely increase again for the 2017-2018 season. As a fan, that's what I'm upset about. The resale market on sites like StubHub or SeatGeek help this problem, but it's not going away anytime soon.
Let's also introduce this argument. If you're a fan of either the Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs, or Cleveland Cavaliers, you know you're in the position to win a championship this year. If a fan of those teams, for example, wins a championship, I can guarantee you they are really not going to care about a regular season game between the Warriors and Spurs when multiple players were given a day to rest. This is a conversation that will never happen during an NBA Championship parade:
Fan 1: "Dude. I'm still upset about that game in March when we couldn't see Steph, Draymond, and Klay beat the
29 Oct 2013. League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis? Dir. Michael Kirk. Prod.
.... Players are also factors in fighting against dystopian way because it inhibits them to freely be themselves while they are playing and working in a association they worked on their whole life to get into. In other words, its bizarre to see players who are the main value in sports such as basketball, however are still able to be confined due to the authoritative power of the basketball association. Overall, since people depend heavily on social media and television, associations use their power such as imposing dress codes to present their players on television so that viewers can be aware and interested in why the NBA is trying to sell such as tickets to stadiums, clothing, and certain messages. IN result, this has lead society to fall under a dystopia, where everything is controlled by higher authority restricting thus the rights us people were first entitled too.
“Football’s Endgame: What would happen if America’s Pastime just...died” is the title that had heads turning when it made its way onto Sports Illustrated. Football is the United State’s favorite sport so an article like this one was sure to shock fans. The article was written to be set ten years from now when the game of football met its death. Giving the ongoing issues surrounding the game in 2016, the author Austin Murphy dated the article September 7,2036. In this article Murphy talks about the factors that led to the end of one of the U.S’s beloved sports. Factors like the AIG not protecting athletes against head injuries in the NFL, Pop Warner settling a death with the family of a former football player who committed suicide at the age of 25 from CTE caused by hits to the head, and the 10% rise in football concussions. A woman whose son had passed away from a motorcycle accident noticed changes in her boy. Playing football for almost a decade he was bound to get hurt, but it was after his death that doctors found he had CTE. CTE is a topic of discussion in this article. Sports Illustrated works to inform everyone about CTE and its effects on the mind. This disease targets the way a person thinks and changes their moods, “He had all these [football-related] problems with his knees and back, but his brain was
College basketball has gone from amateur competition to multi-million dollar tournaments and will continue to get larger and larger. The student-athlete is no longer a student and has become more and more of an athlete. Admissions are loosened and deals are made in order to get the best basketball players in the land. Athletes who are not students are criticized when they leave for the pros even though they are probably doing the right thing by not perpetuating the myth of academics and athletics. College basketball has become a multi-million dollar industry whether schools will admit it or not and the student athlete is the one getting played.
The number of players abusing drugs in the NFL is increasing every year (www.cbs.sportsline.com). This is concerning because it seems like more and more players each year get caught either using drugs, or being involved in some kind of drug activity. The only drug being used that is on the decline is anabolic steroids. This decline is due to several players in the 1970's and 80's dying before they could see their kids make it to high school. The first player to publicly come clean about being addicted to drugs was Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson. He was a Dallas Cowboys linebacker who played in three Super Bowls. He told the world about his addiction in 1981. He claims that a player using cocaine and marijuana was very uncommon at his rookie season. The more he played, the more drugs he began to take. He claims that since he came clean, the problems have been getting worse. More and more players keep doing drugs even after they hear of players having drug problems. If these...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson shocked the sports world when he revealed his HIV-positive status and continued to participate in professional basketball games. He faced varying reactions including scrutiny and acceptance. With rising fears of contracting HIV during sports games that turn bloody, the dilemma exists of requiring athletes to be subject to more testing. With this comes an ethical dilemma due to the stigmatization of individuals with HIV. Considering that HIV is a potentially deadly and dangerous virus, some argue that it should be part of the regular routine testing that athletes already go through. So now the question that exists in the sports world today is: should all professional athletes be subject to regular mandatory
Professional athletes using performance enhancing drugs, are influencing adolescent athletes to do the same. Studies done by psychologist in the past have shown that twenty percent of high school athletes who use performance enhancing drugs, do so because their favorite player does. Young athletes are starting to believe that to be the best, they have to use the best. They believe that if they use the same enhancers as professional athletes than they will be able to make it to the next
Second, market growth, which is measured by attendance at NBA games, has leveled recently, so increasing competition among teams for a fixed number of fans.
Opportunity Untapped market segments in the US – Caucasians, middle-aged people. No other adequate substitutes for professional basketball. Pool of international players. Ability to explore new markets. Emerging technology to engage the fans (TV, Media, smartphones, etc.... ...
The controversy the NCAA has faced over this issue is plentiful and heartfelt, with opposing sides having countless arguments. These arguments are so polarizing, that you cannot be indifferent to the problem at hand, unless you are not a sports fan, in which case this article will not be totally devoid of interesting things. It will contain the argument for basic human decency, giving a person what is fairly owed, and remembering who brought you the fruitfulness of a multimillion dollar business. The NCAA has time and time again given weak arguments in favor of not paying the athletes. These involve saying they cannot afford to pay the athletes to simply not even paying them at all even if the use their likeness. Several current NBA athletes
Even though the NBA is a multi-billion dollar industry, it does not mean that the owners should have to pay over 50% of their revenues in player salaries. Something needs to be done to stop the enormous growth of player salaries that has been taking place the last couple of years. The NBA players union seems to believe that they should have salaries as high as the market can bear. The NBA was started by the owners and others as a business. Therefore, all of the players are employees of the owners and the league. The league and owners are the ones who do all of the advertising, make deals with television stations, sign contracts for licensing and make it all happen. They are the ones who should be reaping the most financial rewards. In his magazine article, "Held Ball", Phil Taylor, a writer for Sports Illustrated lets us know that with the signing of a new four year, 2.6 billion dollar contract with NBC and Turner Sports, the league seems to have plenty of money. But with figures of about a billion dollars being paid out in player salaries, there is not enough money to pay for all the employees, ...
As a result, Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, banned Donald Sterling for life. Sterling could not attend nor participate in any NBA related activities, and he was forced to sell his franchise.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Sports are one of the most profitable industries in the world. Everyone wants to get their hands on a piece of the action. Those individuals and industries that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sports teams are hoping to make a profit, but it may be an indirect profit. It could be a profit for the sports club, or it could be a promotion for another organization (i.e. Rupert Murdoch, FOX). The economics involved with sports have drastically changed over the last ten years.
In today’s game, the National Basketball Association is the best and most expensive basketball league in the world. All thirty teams are worth an incredible amount of money, and the number is rapidly increasing each year. Today, the value of a team is extremely high, with the league average at an astonishing 1.3 billion dollars. This average has increased by 3.5% in just three years (Badenhausen). A large amount of a team's income is from sponsorship deals. The two most valuable teams in the NBA, are towards the bottom of the league in performance over the past few years. Despite a 32-50 2015-2016 season, the New York Knicks are the NBA most valued teams at 3.3 billion dollars (Badenhausen). Starting in the 2017-2018 season, these numbers are
...Though there have been various laws and rules in the sports, athletes didn’t hesitate breaking those rules. Using drugs in the sports a favorable outcome (to win) and gambling have speeded to the maximum. Athletes are cheating in sports through drugs and gambling leads to cheat to get the name, fame, money and rewards and instead of using their own effort and ability to work. They cheat when they don’t have to and when they get caught it ruin their career. In addition, gambling itself is addictive and the athlete who begins losing the money can be dangerously vulnerable to different destructive behaviors. Drug use and gambling are harmful for the career. Finally, all cheating in sports has to eliminate to save the spirit of sports.