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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.”
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”
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 …”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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…”