Why fans should embrace a competitively balanced NBA
James Dolan is screeching about the NFLification of the NBA. But it's good for a wide swath of team fans.
Good morning. Happy Blue Screen of Death Day. Let’s basketball.
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The other day, I mentioned James Dolan’s screeching letter to his colleagues on the NBA Board of Governors and their appointed commissioner as primarily an attempt by a wealth corporate leader to protect his corner. Dolan, who inherited the high-revenue Knicks and the associated businesses like Cablevision, Madison Square Garden and MSG Network, is mad that the NBA will now be doing business with non-cable actors and, by his report, de-emphasizing reliance on regional sports networks (RSNs) to deliver games to fans. He’s also mad that this more centralized media rights arrangement will effectively transfer revenue from high-resource clubs like his to lower-resource clubs like the Hornets and Thunder.
How does that work?
