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Originally posted by Halx
I dunno about all that Kurant.. they market the "I Love This Game" campaign pretty aggressively and just leave the individual player endorsements up to the corporations.
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Your right, they do, however. Basketball woulden't be basketball without the personalities and the people they market. Every Wizards game (During the Jordan time) and now every Clevelend game sells out, why? It's surely not because of good marketing. Then again, in Lebron's case, it's all about marketing. People couldn't give a shit less if the Cavs win or lose, as long as they see Lebron.
In the NFL it doesn't matter who plays, every team, every week almost every stadium sells out, because the game is marketed, and it's a well played, and refined product that's shown to the public. People come to watch football, not Randy Moss, not Ricky Williams, they come to see football. That's whats being sold.
Basketball is generally selfish play, bad attitudes, whiners and people bitching about needing more money, because they spend more money (The famous Patrick Ewing line). It's a bad product. It's bad basketball. I'd rather get run over on I-5 then watch the NBA regular season.