NBA

“In his total career from basketball contracts, he made something like ninety million dollars.”

“They're now the official uniform supplier of the MLB, the NFL, and the NBA, and they're throwing huge dollars. Like, the NFL deal alone is something like a two hundred million dollar a year deal.”

“The NFL is a better business as a league than the NBA. No question in my mind. But the amount of value created out of the leagues, I think more value is created out of the NBA. The NFL just captures way more value, and thus is the more valuable league.”

“The big four sports leagues in the US, the MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL, have outperformed the stock market meaningfully, and over a period of 1961 to twenty-twenty-four, it's 13% annualized versus 10% annualized. And I know it doesn't sound like a lot when I bill i…”

“So thus sparks, unquestionably, truly unquestionably, this is in zero way a controversial statement, the most brilliant, most successful sports entrepreneurial business plan Of all time. The Indian Premier League, a domestic, city-based cricket league in India…”

“I saw data that said that the- Lowest free throw shooting percentage of the league for the visiting team is against the wall.”

“The superstars in the NBA, like LeBron James, including sponsorships, makes one hundred and twenty seven million dollars a year. There is no one in the sport of football that comes close. There are three basketball and three soccer players at the top of the li…”

“Variety reports 81% of sports bettors bet On NFL games versus just over 50% for the NBA and 44% for Major League Baseball.”

“The Super Bowl draws one hundred twenty seven million viewers, and that is growing. The NBA Finals per game draws just ten million viewers, down from its peak in the 25 to thirty million during the Michael Jordan era in the nineties.”

“And if you look at the data, US adults as a whole, 33% say the NFL is their favorite professional sports league. But if you look at Gen Z, only 23% of Gen Z say That the NFL is their favorite professional sport, so 10 points less than the broader population, a…”

“LeBron has well over a hundred million social media followers. Instagram alone. And the two largest NFL players by social media following are OBJ and Tom Brady, both of which are in the low teens. So like a 10 X difference.”

“I don't think this ever would have happened or happened in the same way in the NBA. The NBA embraced both social media and the strategy of letting players have their own platforms, be their own voices and promote the league through that.”

“From a revenue perspective, the NFL today makes twice as much as basketball, but that's a pretty damning trend, looking at where Gen Z's interests lie.”

“So in the long run, if the main reason to subscribe to any given channel ends up being actually about the game content itself and not differentiated by stuff around the game, then the excess profits in the long term Will just be captured by the rights holders …”