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It's ironic to be mocking this Hacker News, where people every day are launching upstart ideas to take on massive incumbents. Launching your own basketball lea
by ngokevin 5y ago
It's ironic to be mocking this Hacker News, where people every day are launching upstart ideas to take on massive incumbents.
Launching your own basketball league isn't even that ridiculous! I could see a basketball league with influencers that's more about the entertainment and characters versus skill level having a chance.
- perardi 5y agoThey sure kept trying that for football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2001) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2001) And it sure went nowhere.
- ngokevin 5y agoI feel AEW is becoming a contender WWE (owner of XFL) in just a couple years, although it did take like hundreds of millions of dollars.
- CPLX 5y agoA national political party is a large group of people united within a formal organization around specific ideology helmed by leaders who hold the support of that group. A national basketball league is a medium sized group of people who play basketball. As you can see, my plan for a basketball league and Andrew Yang's plan for a political party are facing a similar dilemma.
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