Notes & Insights > Basketball

• Brooklyn beckons

  12 March 2010 | Feature | Basketball

  Brett Yormark is renowned as one of the most innovative executives in the sports industry. The youngest chief executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he is almost certainly one of the most progressive.

• Orlando Magic’s dream move is becoming a reality

  12 January 2010 | Comment | Basketball

  The NBA's Orlando Magic have one of the busiest chief operating officers in sport, with Alex Martins overseeing not just the day-to-day running of the franchise, but the team's upcoming move to the Amway Center, scheduled to open in October.

• Bright lights for New York Knicks

  07 October 2009 | Comment | Basketball

  The New York Knicks have become the first National Basketball Association franchise to install LED courtside technology as they seek to boost revenues at Madison Square Garden.

• British basketball looks to Premier League’s American owners for help

  06 October 2009 | Rumour | Basketball

  The British Basketball Association, a new organisation set up by former NBA executives, hopes to appeal to the American owners of Premier League soccer clubs to enlist support in setting up a model common across Europe. Many of the continent's biggest soccer teams are part of a larger sporting club, usually including a basketball team.

• NBA and Uefa executives heading for Stamford Bridge

  07 September 2009 | Comment | Basketball, Soccer

  Adam Silver, the deputy commissioner of the National Basketball Association, and Philippe Le Floc’h, marketing director of Uefa, are two of the key figures selected to speak at the Leaders in Football conference, to be hosted by Chelsea FC in October.

• Heidi Ueberroth: The NBA’s goddess of wealth

  31 August 2009 | Feature | Basketball

  In 1984, Peter Ueberroth became commissioner of Major League Baseball. 25 years later, his daughter Heidi seems set to follow in her father’s footsteps. She is being touted as a successor to current NBA commissioner David Stern. Should she assume the role, she would become the first female commissioner of any major sports league anywhere in the world. For now though, at least, she is spearheading the NBA’s global push.

• History of Sport: A tale of two dynasties

  26 August 2009 | Comment | Basketball

  The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics are indisputably the greatest franchises in National Basketball Association history. Their rivalry, spanning 50 years, is one of the most intense in international sporting history and, at its zenith in the 1980s, was responsible for transforming the NBA from a fringe organisation into the worldwide commercial powerhouse it is today.

• Scott O’Neil: Marketing made simple

  05 August 2009 | Feature | Basketball, Ice Hockey

  Scott O’Neil is a man on a mission. Having being named as one of the top 40 sports executives under 40 years of age by Sports Business Journal and as one of the top marketing executives by Advertising Age in 2006, the 39-year-old now has his sights set on continuing the commercial development of New York’s legendary sports venue, Madison Square Garden.

• Houston Rockets star Yao Ming to buy basketball team

  09 July 2009 | Rumour | Basketball

  NBA giant Yao Ming is set to launch a bid to buy his old team, the Shanghai Sharks.

• Michael Jordan confirms interest in buying NBA franchise

  29 June 2009 | Rumour | Basketball

  Michael Jordan, indisputably the biggest NBA star of all time, is one of the men keen to buy the Charlotte Bobcats NBA franchise.

• Cavs break bank but Shaq trade could be commercial gold

  28 June 2009 | Comment | Basketball

  Shaquille O'Neal will team up with Cavaliers star LeBron James next season after the Cleveland franchise pulled off a sensational trade hours before the NBA draft.

• Chicago Bulls: The world’s 84th most valuable sports property

  12 June 2009 | Analysis | Basketball

  An unprecedented and unique SportsPro report ranking the world's 200 most valuable sports properties has identifed the Chicago Bulls as the 84th most valuable on the planet.

• New York lights begin to dazzle LeBron James

  09 June 2009 | Rumour | Basketball

  The Cleveland Cavaliers’ exit from the National Basketball Association (NBA) PlayOffs could have serious ramifications for LeBron James’ future with the franchise.

• New York lights begin to dazzle LeBron

  01 June 2009 | Comment | Basketball

  The Cleveland Cavaliers' exit from the National Basketball Association (NBA) PlayOffs could have serious ramifications for LeBron James' future with the franchise.

• Chinese group to take stake in Cleveland Cavaliers

  26 May 2009 | Rumour | Basketball

  The Cleveland Cavaliers NBA franchise has agreed a preliminary deal that could see a Chinese group take up to 15 per cent of its shares in a move welcomed by the league's undisputed star, LeBron James.

• Page 1 of 1 pages