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It's worth noting that the commissioner of the NBA (the league in which Cuban is an owner) recently announced that they'll likely be putting sponsors' logos on

by jmduke 13y ago

It's worth noting that the commissioner of the NBA (the league in which Cuban is an owner) recently announced that they'll likely be putting sponsors' logos on NBA jerseys within five years: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10637752/commissioner-adam-silver-says-nba-jerseys-sponsor-logos-future http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10637752/commissioner-adam...

runevault 13y ago
To be fair, Cuban's already complained about the stupid short sleeve jerseys, I would guess he'll complain about this too. He's often in hot water for not toeing the party line about various stupidities in the NBA (which IMO is only not the worst run league in the US because Hockey in NA is so poorly run).
- matwood 13y ago
  The NBA is not run well, but they have grown a lot under the last commissioner while things like baseball and hockey have shrunk in popularity. The NBAs biggest problem is lack of talent and the long, meaningless regular season. The best regular season in recent memory was the strike shortened season where they played maybe 50 games. The talent issue is harder to solve because in a 5 person game you need a least 1 super star per team to really matter. The be a super start in the NBA you need so many skills that it is similar in rarity to being a top QB in the NFL. There just are not many athletes at that level.
  - jmduke 13y ago
    I think those two issues are somewhat related: the 'lack' of talent (I'd more call it an uneven distribution of talent) leads to a lack of parity amongst teams, and a lack of parity amongst teams leads to a pointless regular season where you have a pretty accurate idea of the playoffs before even the All-Star break.
  - theklub 13y ago
    I think they should add a mid-season or pre-season tournament and shorten the regular season. Play some of the tournament games overseas.
  - cjf4 13y ago
    "The NBA is not run well" There are certain things they could do better (the cap, age requirement, too many teams) but I think this is a stretch. The Association does the best job of any American sports league with globalization, no one else markets its stars better, and no one else has done as good a job leveraging technology as delivery medium.
KC8ZKF 13y ago
It's also worth noting that Mr. Cuban is not allowed to criticize NBA policies.
- jmduke 13y ago
  I don't believe that's correct -- though he certainly receives more attention and scrutiny when he does so. Recently, he (along with pretty much everyone else) criticized the new sleeved jerseys: http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/10198314/mark-cuban-dallas-mavericks-says-nba-made-mistake-new-jerseys http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/10198314/mark-cuban...
- cjf4 13y ago
  He's not allowed to criticize officials, big difference.
bestdayever 13y ago
People always point to soccer(football everywhere else) as a sport that has done this successfully. Wasn't the original driving reason that they don't have commercial breaks. If NBA took out all commercial breaks (maybe except team timeouts) I don't think ads on the jerseys would be a horrible trade off.

by jmduke 13y ago

runevault 13y ago

To be fair, Cuban's already complained about the stupid short sleeve jerseys, I would guess he'll complain about this too. He's often in hot water for not toeing the party line about various stupidities in the NBA (which IMO is only not the worst run league in the US because Hockey in NA is so poorly run).

matwood 13y ago
The NBA is not run well, but they have grown a lot under the last commissioner while things like baseball and hockey have shrunk in popularity. The NBAs biggest problem is lack of talent and the long, meaningless regular season. The best regular season in recent memory was the strike shortened season where they played maybe 50 games. The talent issue is harder to solve because in a 5 person game you need a least 1 super star per team to really matter. The be a super start in the NBA you need so many skills that it is similar in rarity to being a top QB in the NFL. There just are not many athletes at that level.
- jmduke 13y ago
  I think those two issues are somewhat related: the 'lack' of talent (I'd more call it an uneven distribution of talent) leads to a lack of parity amongst teams, and a lack of parity amongst teams leads to a pointless regular season where you have a pretty accurate idea of the playoffs before even the All-Star break.
- theklub 13y ago
  I think they should add a mid-season or pre-season tournament and shorten the regular season. Play some of the tournament games overseas.
- cjf4 13y ago
  "The NBA is not run well" There are certain things they could do better (the cap, age requirement, too many teams) but I think this is a stretch. The Association does the best job of any American sports league with globalization, no one else markets its stars better, and no one else has done as good a job leveraging technology as delivery medium.

KC8ZKF 13y ago

It's also worth noting that Mr. Cuban is not allowed to criticize NBA policies.

jmduke 13y ago
I don't believe that's correct -- though he certainly receives more attention and scrutiny when he does so. Recently, he (along with pretty much everyone else) criticized the new sleeved jerseys: http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/10198314/mark-cuban-dallas-mavericks-says-nba-made-mistake-new-jerseys http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/10198314/mark-cuban...
cjf4 13y ago
He's not allowed to criticize officials, big difference.

bestdayever 13y ago

People always point to soccer(football everywhere else) as a sport that has done this successfully. Wasn't the original driving reason that they don't have commercial breaks. If NBA took out all commercial breaks (maybe except team timeouts) I don't think ads on the jerseys would be a horrible trade off.