The Ledger
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Cuban: Feuding with NBA referees cost the Mavericks the 2006 championship
“And it set me off with a lot of those guys and probably cost me a championship in 2006.”
Rubin: Major sports leagues now drive one-third of sales direct-to-consumer
“When we started, it might have been one or two percent of business would go through the NFL or Major League Baseball or NBA's direct-to-consumer business. Today, it's about a third would go through their own direct-to-consumer business.”
Simmons: 1976 Celtics-Suns Finals game probably remains the most famous modern NBA game
“Yeah, it became the most famous modern NBA game, and it probably still is.”
Major sports leagues lacked COVID return-to-play playbooks in March 2020
“The dawning realization that there was no game plan to come back. Like whenever, you know, there has to be a game plan for this, right? I kept, I called everybody. You know, I'm a small league. We're very thinly resourced. So I'm calling the NBA. I'm calling p…”
Baird notes soccer's global economy differs from domestic NBA and NFL models
“The fact is that our sport operates within a global economy. We're not, you know, just like the National Football League or even the NBA, where most of the players are playing in one country. Soccer is a global sport unlike no other. So every year there is som…”