NBA

also referred to as: national basketball association

includes NBA Top Shot, NBA Finals, NBA Teams

8 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 13, 2018 by Ben Reiter · said 95 times in 36 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Ted Seides (21), Ari Paul (7), Doc O'Connor (6), Alex Rodriguez (6), Seth Ginns (5), Jon Wertheim (5), Ben Reiter (5), Michael Schwimer (4)

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Everything said about NBA, oldest first

Aug 13, 2018 positive
Opinion
Ben Reiter: Reports of baseball's business demise are exaggerated
“I'm somebody who thinks that reports of baseball's demise are kind of exaggerated. It is a different sort of business from the NFL and the NBA to which it's always compared. It's a much more local business. It's much more like steady business. You know, it's o…”
Ben Reiter Aug 13, 2018 ▶ 44:18 Ben Reiter – Moneyball 2.0 (Capital Allocators, EP.64)
Oct 15, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: Three NBA Teams Asked to Outsource Analytics to Big League Advance
“And two NBA, actually three NBA teams now called us and wanted to fire their entire advanced analytics department and have us be the analytics department for those teams remotely.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 45:12 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
Jun 17, 2019 negative
Opinion
Wertheim: Tennis lags behind other sports in data analytics adoption
“Tennis does not do very well on the analytics front, and I don't know if that is just It hasn't thought creatively. I don't know if it's the fact that it's not like you can rig up an NBA arena and you're good for 40 days, right? I mean, this is a circuit, so i…”
Jon Wertheim Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 13:57 Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102)
Jun 7, 2021 bullish
Insight
Rodriguez: NBA franchises operate as global media and entertainment platforms
“So I look at these platforms today more like media, sports, entertainment platforms that are, when you look at the NBA, it's a great league. It's a league that's global. It's a league that has joined its tailwinds. It's a league that has young demographics and…”
Alex Rodriguez Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 38:26 Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
Jun 7, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
A-Rod Corp prepares to acquire an NBA team and launch a SPAC
“The other thing is I have to be able to think about big ideas and then go out and execute those ideas, whether that's the NBA team we're about to acquire Whether that's our SPAC business, which is, we're very, very excited about, or whether it's creating this …”
Alex Rodriguez Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 23:10 Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
Dec 6, 2021
Assertion Supported
The average Big Four sports franchise is valued around $2 billion
“I think the average evaluation for one of the teams in Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NFL, NHL, I think it's about two billion dollars, 2.2 billion dollars, something like that.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 28:19 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
The losing Knicks led NBA revenues until the Warriors' new arena
“The garden was at capacity, or certainly near capacity, and we sat atop the revenue food chain for the entire time until the Golden State Warriors came along and beat us in many revenue categories with their new arena”
Doc O'Connor Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 53:07 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Oct 3, 2022
Assertion Supported
Duke: NBA draft order predicts playing time independently of player skill
“Draft order was predictive. Independent of the skill of the player, for how much playing time the player got, and for how long their contract was.”
Annie Duke Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 45:35 Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
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