moneytalks

I’m a huge NBA fan. The Cavs are my team seeing as how I’m from Cleveland. Being a Cavs fan I hear a lot about 2010, that is the year that Lebron James becomes a free agent and he is supposedly going to New York to play ball in the biggest market in the country. Of course he wants to play there, it’s New York City and this is only Cleveland Ohio. Of course a big star would only play in a major market. I think it is more like this, “of course the NBA would only want their biggest star in their biggest money making cities”.

When the referee was caught for fixing games it came as no shock to me. I’ve claimed that the game was fixed for quite a while now so I was more shocked that they are claiming that only one ref was fixing games. David Stern, the commissioner of the NBA, has made a point to give the big markets special treatment.

L.A., New York, Chicago, Boston and New Jersey seem to be the teams that are getting the big pushes. Meanwhile teams like Memphis and Philly, Charlotte and OKC are struggling to sell out half the arena. Only caring about the cities that have multi million person populations gives the heart of the league, the small markets, the short end of the stick. The fans AKA the ones who give the players, owners and league all that money are the ones suffering. The Spurs winning all those championships was the worst nightmare for Stern considering that they only play in San Antonio. Boston and the Lakers in last years finals was the dream but that dream will be for not if all the smaller market teams fold. My advise to Stern is to quit having your refs cheat for all the big city teams and try embracing the T-Wolfs and the Cavs. Try embracing all those teams and encouraging big name players to play and stay in those cities or else you’ll be watching a basketball league that only has 4 teams in it.

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