Showing posts with category "nba"

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Watching NBA highlights last night on NBATV, I stumbled across this video story on the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Daryl Morey, GM of the

The Short Supply of Tall People is Getting Longer

From a past entry from Dave Berri's Wages of Wins Journal:

Economics of Sportsmanship

Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski blasted LeBron James for his behavior after the Magic series and his "explanation" of it the next day:

Overstating King James' Impact on the Cleveland Economy

Meghan Barr, an AP correspondent from Cleveland, needs a lesson in economics in this article about LeBron James.

If It's Broke, Why Not Fix It?

While spending the fall semester on the West Coast, I attended the MPSF Water Polo championships. (MPSF stands for Mountain Pacific Sports Federation -- a

Sports Econ Musings

A Real-Time Economic Indicator from Sports World: One of my colleagues returned from Talladega, reporting that crowds for the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series

Economic woes for the sports business in Baltimore

The Baltimore Sun had a front page article this morning devoted to the impact of the general economic decline on the fortunes of the Orioles and the Ravens.

An Economist's Quick Thoughts on the LeBron James Decision

LeBron James is catching a torrent of criticism over his decision to leave his "hometown team", the Cleveland Cavaliers, for the Miami Heat.  As an economist,

Bringing the Game Back - The Role of Prices

Responding to some of the doomers and gloomers who see the NBA going to hell in a handbasket, Dave Berri argues that the the association will not suffer any

Carmelo: Subtraction by Addition (So Far)

Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post doesn't exactly offer a resounding endorsement of the February 21 NY Knicks acquisition of Carmelo Anthony, but he does

NBA Locks Out Referees

Labor relations in professional sports are notoriously contentious. Nobody gets along. Players strike, owners lock out players, referees strike, owners lock