New York Knicks fans are obviously excited to have their team return to New York City with a chance to close out the NBA Finals on their home court. The only problem is that the average New Yorker won’t be able to watch it in person. While NBA commissioner Adam Silver isn’t necessarily happy about…
President Donald Trump is expected to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals when the New York Knicks host the series at Madison Square Garden, according to reports from NBA…
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The New York Knicks are up 1-0 over the San Antonio Spurs in the 2026 NBA Finals after an impressive second-half performance from point guard Jalen Brunson. Brunson and the Knicks will look to go up 2-0 in the series on Friday night before heading back to New York for Games 3 and 4. It…
As the first year of its new rights deal enters its final phase, the NBA is getting set to crown its eighth different champion in as many seasons by way of what amounts to a dream matchup between the Spurs and the Knicks. It does so on the heels of a seven-game Western Conference finals […]
The NBA board of governors has officially approved severe anti-tanking measures aimed at ending teams actively trying to lose games for the best odds in the NBA draft lottery. “Overall, there will be flattened odds, but most importantly, the bottom three teams will be punished with lessened odds moving forward for the No. 1 overall…
ESPN NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins went off about the league’s officiating during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Friday. The comments came after Thursday night’s Game 2 of the second-round playoff series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder, which featured officiating that drew plenty of criticism from Lakers head coach…
If you paid any attention to the NBA after the calendar flipped to 2026, you were inundated with feverish debates about how to solve the supposedly existential crisis facing the league: tanking. With a strong 2026 draft class awaiting them, the worst 10 teams in the league attempted to lose as many games as possible to maximize their draft lottery odds, resting their good players with fake…
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama made his highly anticipated return in Game 4 of the Spurs’ first-round playoff series, after exiting Game 2 and missing all of Game 3 with a concussion from a nasty collision with the hardwood. The Frenchman shone in his return to the floor, scoring 27 points and adding 11…
The long-rumored sale of the Portland Trail Blazers finally went through this season, as private equity investor and Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon took over the team just in time for the playoffs. Almost immediately, Dundon began cutting costs. Reports surfaced on the team’s slimmed-down travel accommodations and its meager budget for its next head…
First-round bids for teams in the new NBA Europe were due Tuesday, and multiple bidders offered $1 billion to be part of the league. Several others offered at least $500 million, according to someone familiar with the process who was not authorized to discuss publicly. Overall, more than 120 investors, including private equity funds, sovereign […]
This column originally ran in Club Sportico, a Friday newsletter community that discusses sports business with additional opinion and humor. You can subscribe here. The NBA is officially soliciting bids for a new franchise in Seattle. After years of casual discussion and much speculation, commissioner Adam Silver announced this week that owners had greenlit the league’s first […]
In the eleventh hour he WNBA and WNBAPA have finally agreed to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement after it was looking increasingly likely that the start of the season would be delayed. “This marks the beginning of a bold new era for the WNBA – one made possible by the passion and dedication Read more...
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NBA owners approved a plan to explore expansion franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle at their board of governors meeting Wednesday in New York. The NBA, in a statement, said it hired investment bank PJT Partners to “evaluate prospective markets, ownership groups, arena infrastructure and the broader economic implications of expansion.” The league is also […]
It's always good when the NBA tells you when it plans to do something it has already decided to do. You can think of the NBA's all-but-announced expansion gambit as a hamster wheel. Not as a piece of exercise equipment for indentured rodentia, but as a consumer product—you get the wheel either because you already have a hamster or because you're going to purchase one in about 10 minutes, since…
On the 535th Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including a shocker in the NBA, where Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo exploded for 83 points on Tuesday night. The hosts talk about the feat, the second highest-scoring game in league history behind […]
The NBA has shut down a planned promotional event tied to the Atlanta Hawks that referenced Magic City, which was set to take place March 16. League leadership confirmed the…
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NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced on Monday night that the league has canceled an in-arena promotion that the Atlanta Hawks planned for March 16 to celebrate Magic City, a famous Atlanta strip club that the Hawks referred to as an “iconic cultural institution.” The following has been released by the NBA. pic.twitter.com/jzbUW8t73Y — NBA Communications Read more...
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Pablo Torre is still on the case when it comes to the saga surrounding Kawhi Leonard and whether or not a no-show sponsorship circumvented the salary cap when he signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. The initial story sent shockwaves through the NBA and even led to Clippers billionaire owner Steve Ballmer having to do Read more...
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President Donald Trump’s new commission to explore legal reforms to college sports is expected to advocate for an antitrust exemption. The NCAA has pushed for this exemption for years, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 9–0 ruling against the association in NCAA v. Alston (2021). Alston involved a review of NCAA rules governing payment of athletes’ education‑related expenses, and in the […]
Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports reports on Thursday night that President Donald Trump is “convening next Friday a presidential roundtable of more than three-dozen dignitaries and sports celebrities to further explore solutions for the industry’s ills” regarding college sports. While it’s unclear if all of the invitees will attend the White House roundtable on March Read more...
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The biggest business story related to the NBA has nothing to do with tanking, Kawhi Leonard, or the NBA's new national broadcast partners. We are only a little more than a year away from the launch of NBA Europe, a new basketball league across the Atlantic that proposes to upend and Americanize the game.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver is swinging huge: The proposed league would feature 16 teams,…
Just three nights before the NBA All-Star Game, an event which over the last 20 years has become a sort of living monument to half-assery, the league slapped the Utah Jazz with a $500,000 fine for tanking. The weekend ended with an entertaining display of the sort of effort that’s been absent for so long […]
NBA All-Star Weekend was full of fans and pundits criticizing the league (especially when it comes to tanking) and questioning Saturday’s skills events, but the new All-Star Game format was actually well-received. The new format featured two USA teams and a World team competing in a round-robin tournament with four 12-minute games. While the championship Read more...
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Before the season started, the question hanging over the NBA’s new media landscape wasn’t whether the product was good. It was whether anyone could find it. The league had just completed its $76 billion media rights deal — an 11-year agreement that ended TNT’s 40-year relationship with the NBA and split the league’s games across Read more...
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NBA commissioner Adam Silver met with the media at the Intuit Dome for his annual NBA All-Star Saturday press conference. And as part of his opening statement, Silver explained that artificial intelligence will have a massive impact “in how sports are presented.” “Many of you had an opportunity to attend our technology summit on Friday, Read more...
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On Thursday, the NBA fined the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers for violating its player participation policy, citing “conduct detrimental to the league.” The league fined the Jazz $500,000 and the Pacers $100,000 for perceived attempts to tank and lose intentionally to improve their draft lottery odds. NBA commissioner Adam Silver also said in Read more...
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What is to be done about NBA tanking? Based on the pissy administrative response from the league to some recently and spectacularly egregious examples of Tank Mode, you might think it is the most pressing problem facing a league that has a few of those. Thankfully, the solution is easy: Book a fight in the schoolyard, where the people doing the fighting aren't the students but the teachers. Sign…
Because everyone else at Industrial Foundry No. 682 is basking in the joys of publicly libidinous biathletes and their subtly vengeful exes, snow-runners with nuclear quad muscles, credit card-kiting biathletes, deeply sinister ice dancers, free-range groin photographers, and cartoon murder-stoats, some poor mope has to tackle the backed-up septic tank that is the NBA All-Star Game. Not the thing…
Seattle SuperSonics fans were devastated when their team relocated, with the franchise ultimately becoming what is now known as the Oklahoma City Thunder. However, many Sonics fans have always held out hope that one day they’d get their team back, similarly to how the Cleveland Browns returned after becoming the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL. Read more...
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