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Luol Deng: Basketball's $125 Million Real Estate Magnate
It's true that the South Sudanese NBA player Luol Deng has earned 151,000,000 million throughout his fourteen year NBA career. But Deng, twice an NBA All-Star, has developed a complex ... -
Operating Losses in the NBA
From an article entitled "A confidential report shows nearly half the NBA lost money last season. Now what?" from ESPN.com: Despite a flood of new national television cash, 14 of ... -
Income Caps Create Unequal Teams
So argues Daniel Frank in his piece "Inequality in the NBA". Here are a couple of his observations: As American politics gets consumed by discussions on income inequality, a similar ... -
"Termination Risk and Agency Problems: Evidence from the NBA"
Here's a link to new working paper by Alma Cohen, Nadav Levy, and Roy Sasson. Here is the abstract. When agents face a risk of termination by the principal in ... -
NBA Centers Facing Extinction
Russell, Chamberlain, Jabbar, Lanier, Walton, Gilmore, Malone, Olajuwan, Ewing, O’Neal. Over decades, these and other “centers” dominated the NBA. The “association” conducted its annual All-Star game on Sunday. For the ... -
Minimum Age for the NBA
Steve Kerr, former player and current TV analyst, proposes raising the NBA minimum age from 19 to 20 in a recent Grantland column. His argument is simple, the move makes ... -
Sports Commissioners in the "Gangster" Era
"I talked to that whole staff. I said this is my city. I'm cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team is like me. I let ... -
KJ Flunks the TSE Exam
Did he -- Kevin Johnson, ex-NBA star and current mayor of Sacramento -- really flunk the test? Unfortunately, I think he did. USAToday.com records his answers to a series of ... -
Will Sacramento's Arena Negotiations Turn Out Different?
On NBA.com, David Aldridge posts an interesting statement on arena development plans from Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson. Although it contains the usual jobs-related, "transformational" hype, KJ's ... -
NBA on NHL Path, Not NFL
John Chick from Canada's CBC sports nailed the NBA lockout situation: The impetus for the lockout was the owners deciding the league's current financial system was unsustainable. Bettman wanted a ...
