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Sarandos predicts sports leagues like the NFL will go direct-to-consumer
“I think the winner will be NFL.com. That they'll just go direct to consumer, and there's plenty of people who pay an outrageous amount of money for a subscription for NFL, or NBA, or MLB, and ultimately the winners will be the league anyway, so.”
Wiener: High school star Mac McClung will reach the NBA despite skeptics
“I would say that most of the basketball population does not believe he's going to go to the NBA. I do, because I'm a supporter.”
Horowitz: College football per-game TV ratings surpass NBA ratings
“The college football Television ratings are much higher than NBA ratings for, you know, any given game.”
Gaskins: NBA instituted dress code after Allen Iverson repeatedly paid fines
“Allen's showing up, like, I'm not going to be like Mike, I'm wearing the white tee with the Yankee fitted with Timbs, and that's how I'm coming to the games, and the NBA's like, mm-mm, that's a 50,000 dollar fine, fine, I'll pay it. Mm-hmm, that's a 100,000 do…”
Seven-foot American males have a 25% chance of playing in the NBA
“If you're a seven foot tall American male, you have roughly a 25% chance of playing in the National Basketball Association. If you are a six-six, which again, is really tall, you have like a .2% chance of playing in the NBA.”
Mark Cuban says NBA could not find a buyer for New Orleans
“In 2010, The NBA couldn't even sell the New Orleans franchise. There were no buyers. And the valuation had gone down.”