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Anyone hear about the expose done on the Dallas Mavericks and how their former president was a scum bag. Of course Cuban is denying he knew anything about it.. but as a hands on owner I'm sure he's full of bull-sh!t:
https://www.si.com/nba/2018/02/20/da...cuban-response
While sources referred to the Mavericks office as a “locker room culture,” the team’s actual locker room was a refuge. Says one female former senior staffer: “I dealt with players all the time. I had hundreds of interactions with players and never once had an issue…they always knew how to treat people. Then I'd go to the office and it was this zoo, this complete shitshow. My anxiety would go down dealing with players; it would go up when I got to my desk.”
A half-dozen female former Mavericks or American Airlines Center employees contacted by SI claim that they left the sports sector because of a work environment and structure that left them feeling vulnerable and devalued while protecting—and continuing to employ—powerful men who misbehaved. “There was built-in protection for a lot of men,” says a former male department head at American Airlines Center. “The lack of oversight and compassion within all levels of the business was alarming.”
“You don’t feel safe going to work and it’s not long before you look for another job,” says one of those women, now employed in a different sector. “And then you wonder why there aren’t more women working in sports. Really?”
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planetmars wrote: View PostAnyone hear about the expose done on the Dallas Mavericks and how their former president was a scum bag. Of course Cuban is denying he knew anything about it.. but as a hands on owner I'm sure he's full of bull-sh!t:
https://www.si.com/nba/2018/02/20/da...cuban-response
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Hotshot wrote: View PostThere were some wild stories and accusations from the Knicks office a few years back involved Isiah Thomas and Marbury if I recall.9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of Forum
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KeonClark wrote: View PostNot just stories and innuendo. It actually 110% happened and Thomas lost nearly 12 million dollars in a lawsuit decided by jury.If we knew half as much about coaching an NBA team as we think, we"d know twice as much as we do.
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TRex wrote: View PostMeh 600,000 is peanuts for Cuban. That's like a $50 fine to a regular person.Fining Mark Cuban $600,000 on his net worth of $3.7 billion is the equivalent of fining the average American $28.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 21, 2018
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This. 100%
LeBron doesn't think the NBA should alter the postseason format, via @SpinDavies
— SLAM Magazine (@SLAMonline) February 21, 2018
"It changes the landscape of the history of the game if you start messing with seedings and playoffs" https://t.co/I3dZdGK5eF pic.twitter.com/riZGbusWBiMamba Mentality
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TRex wrote: View PostThis. 100%
LeBron doesn't think the NBA should alter the postseason format, via @SpinDavies
— SLAM Magazine (@SLAMonline) February 21, 2018
"It changes the landscape of the history of the game if you start messing with seedings and playoffs" https://t.co/I3dZdGK5eF pic.twitter.com/riZGbusWBi
Best in my conference vs best in yours is a tradition of all 4 major sports. You take it out and there's a whole nother can of worms, like the unbalanced regular season schedule for example9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of Forum
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TRex wrote: View PostThis. 100%
LeBron doesn't think the NBA should alter the postseason format, via @SpinDavies
— SLAM Magazine (@SLAMonline) February 21, 2018
"It changes the landscape of the history of the game if you start messing with seedings and playoffs" https://t.co/I3dZdGK5eF pic.twitter.com/riZGbusWBi
This stuff gets fuelled mostly by media types who have no monetary stake in the game.The players aren't screaming for it. The owners don't have it as a must have CBA item. The NBA is a TV money driven league and close to 65% of the eyeballs who watch their product and buy their merchandise reside in the eastern US. No one who has even a moderate grasp of business save for MSM NBA writers would advocate dropping the TV market in say Philadelphia or Chicago or NYC in favour of Memphis or Oklahoma City if a one through 16 playoff structure that the media thumps the tub for under the banner of how much stronger the Western Conference is than the East.
This Western supremacy stuff is starting to get tedious as well... A quick look at the league wide standings shows the following
- of the top 10 teams by win loss record ... 6 are in the East and 4 are in the West
- of the bottom feeders ... the Tanking Ten so to speak....show an even split 5 East and 5 West...
- on win loss.. The East vs West totals are 160up and 176down for the East ... 48% win factor.... not exactly totally lopsided
Hard to see the playoff structure changing in view of the myth of competitive balance of west vs east but even harder to believe that with the basic economics of the idea potentially hurting eastern owners and ticking off the TV guys who write the big cheques to the NBA that their advertising revenue is not reaching the top population markets ...that the changed playoff structure hunts at all.Last edited by Demographic Shift; Wed Feb 21, 2018, 06:49 PM.There's no such thing as a 2nd round bust.
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