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 ...How Much Do NBA Players Make in the Playoffs?
The NBA is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world. Professional basketball players earn an extraordinary amount of money. The minimum salary for rookies is worth $893,310 a ...Overstating King James' Impact on the Cleveland Economy
Meghan Barr, an AP correspondent from Cleveland, needs a lesson in economics in this article about LeBron James. "James has been with Cleveland since he was drafted in 2003 but ...How We Develop Basketball Talent
Today's WSJ has a review of the book, Play Their Hearts Out, by SI reporter George Dohrman. The book examines the world of elite youth basketball in the U.S. I'm ...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 ...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 ...MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Watching NBA highlights last night on NBATV, I stumbled across this video story on the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Daryl Morey, GM of the Houston Rockets, helped establish ...Racism Behind Lack of NBA Interest?
The NBA's popularity vaulted during the 1980s and 1990s with Bird as MVP but also with Moses, Magic, Michael, Charles, David, Hakeem, and Karl -- all African American.Sports Econ Musings
A Real-Time Economic Indicator from Sports World: One of my colleagues returned from Talladega, reporting that crowds for the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races were way off from last ...If It's Broke, Why Not Fix It?
While spending the fall semester on the West Coast, I attended the MPSF Water Polo championships. (MPSF stands for Mountain Pacific Sports Federation -- a "cross-conference" conference of schools that ...An Economist's Quick Thoughts on the LeBron James Decision
LeBron James is catching a torrent of criticism over his decision to leave his "hometown team", the Cleveland Cavaliers, for the Miami Heat. As an economist, and a sports fan, I ...The Short Supply of Tall People is Getting Longer
From a past entry from Dave Berri's Wages of Wins Journal: The statement about competitive balance reflects an argument offered in The Wages of Wins. Specifically, we argue – following ...
