Tag: National Basketball Association

The Seattle City Council will say yes or no to move ahead and turn over the city owned arena to the Oak View Group for renovation.

The National Hockey League is finishing the annual promotion of its product in China with a second pre-season game in the country between the Boston Bruins and the Calgary Flames in Beijing.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Oakland A’s ownership picked up key support from the California legislature in their bids to get new sports facilities in terms of challenges to their plans to build facilities.

Steve Ballmer wants to move his National Basketball Association Clippers franchise from downtown Los Angeles to Inglewood, California at a site near the former home of the NBA Lakers and the National Hockey League Kings.

The July numbers are in from sports betting in New Jersey. Three casinos and two racetracks took more than $40 million in bets. Overall, $57 million has been wagered in the Garden State from June 14, when sports betting started in New Jersey, through July 31.

High school principals beware. If you have a top flight basketball player on the campus, chances are you will have an agent hanging around your school advising your big star if the NCAA has its way.

The National Basketball Association is getting ready for the 2018-2019 season and the schedule includes a pre-season stop in Seattle and a pair of regular season games in Mexico City.

LeBron James is transitioning from being a basketball player into a political activist. LeBron is probably in his last few seasons but he won’t be leaving the stage with the announcement that he will support a school in Akron, Ohio and produce TV shows.

It probably should come as no surprise that the National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver has signed a deal with the Las Vegas-based MGM Grand Hotel, which is also a sports betting casino that allows the hotel to become the Official Data Partner of the NBA.

August 3, 1949 is the official birthday of the National Basketball Association although the league does point out that the NBA began as the Basketball Association of America in 1946.