NBA to have ads on unis by 17-18 season.....

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Natebishop3 said:
They won't reduce costs anywhere else. This isn't going to lower seat prices or LP.

This is another revenue stream. And this is NOTHING like soccer because (as Strenuus said) there are very few commercials in soccer so they have to find revenue elsewhere. The NBA has a million commercials. This just guarantees that I won't ever buy a jersey again.
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that would be an interesting number to see actually
I'm sure they will have some poor sod putting those numbers together when it all starts.
 
Strenuus said:
Soccer: Barely commercials

Basketball: Commercials every 3 minutes of game time, halftime, pregame, postgame, end of quarters.

Yeah. NBA REALLY needs another avenue for revenue.

That's fucking bullshit. And that's mild.
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This is my stance as well. How exactly is more advertisement going to help the consumer? Cable to watch the games is through the roof. League pass is blacked out in home markets. Tickets aren't cheap either. Neither is merchandise. Like Strenuus said, we get bombarded with commercials, pre-game, post-game, halftime, and throughout the broadcast ... will that change? Hell no.

So exactly, how does this help the basketball fan? I could care less if billionaire owners continue to pad their pockets and, to me, this is all that it's about.

Also, tradition. Ads on jerseys is so goddamn tacky. I'm perfectly fine being a walking advertisement for the Trail Blazers but why in the fuck would I wear a jersey with another brand's logo on it?
 
Blazer Freak said:
I think Strenuus is taking a 2.5 x 2.5 patch a littleeeeee too seriously :crazy:
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Because it's more money in the pockets of billionaires and more ads shoved down our throats? I laid it out already.

It's the IDEA of it, not the 2.5x

Think about it for a second, it's not that hard to understand.
 
yuyuza1 said:
I've ordered LP broadband the past three years, and every year it has gone up substantially per team. And nothing has been done to address the farce that is NBA TV. Why the fuck do they black that shit out when it's on your own damn network? Regardless, if jersey ads can mean prices for LP don't go up and it reduces dumbass blackout rules, all for it.
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But it won't.
 
I'm used to it because of soccer. But the clubs usually do a really good job of blending the ads in. And each shirt has just one "sponsor." I'm imagining a local insurance company and a couple of beer logos. This could get ugly.
 
Honey Bucket ads on the ass end of the shorts?
 
Strenuus said:
Because it's more money in the pockets of billionaires and more ads shoved down our throats? I laid it out already.

It's the IDEA of it, not the 2.5x

Think about it for a second, it's not that hard to understand.
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This is really getting you heated? Who cares. Won't change the product on the court at all.
 
ripcityboy said:
I'm used to it because of soccer. But the clubs usually do a really good job of blending the ads in. And each shirt has just one "sponsor." I'm imagining a local insurance company and a couple of beer logos. This could get ugly.
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No, it's one 2x5 patch on the left shoulder. And in soccer, it's the WHOLE front of the uni.
 
HCP said:
This is really getting you heated? Who cares. Won't change the product on the court at all.
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If you can care about the NBA, I can care about the joke they are becoming (and in some facets, are).

I don't watch any live NBA games so I make sure to not give them money for watching their advertising.

Soccer, it makes sense.

Basketball, it's all about greed.

Baseball is my first love. But I don't watch anymore live games, and only listen on the radio as it's a lesser used medium and I don't mind bumping them up. There is free radio to listen to the Mariners, so I don't give them any money, and if I can help it, don't buy products that they try to sell me.

"Just when you thought, it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy, and no
What I'm looking for (for)
Can not be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
Cuz what I want, and what I need, is and will always be free"

"When it comes" Incubus
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Well, if it takes this much process to get the change enacted, we might not see more ads for a while.
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When they see the money coming in, it'll happen much faster.

NBA acts on money. They don't think about the consumer. They may make you think they do, but they couldn't care less about the consumer.
 
Remember the whole nonsense with Sheed and "both teams played hard." ??

I predicted back then that the league was not only going to force players to give interviews against their will, it was also going to start dictating exactly what they said. "Both teams played hard and please drink Miller Lite, proud sponsor of the NBA!"

Mark my words - it's coming.
 
Im not a fan of advertising in this league with so many contracts for the nba and individual players. There is plenty of money already to spread around. With that said, IF, it helps maintain ( no more increases) or lower ticket sales, league passes, etc, then IM with Yuyuza, all for it.
If it doesnt do anything for the fan other than try to get them to buy more pepsi, then fuck this idea with a 50 ft pole up a coal infested asshole filled with crab cakes....
 
Orion Bailey said:
Im not a fan of advertising in this league with so many contracts for the nba and individual players. There is plenty of money already to spread around. With that said, IF, it helps maintain ( no more increases) or lower ticket sales, league passes, etc, then IM with Yuyuza, all for it.
If it doesnt do anything for the fan other than try to get them to buy more pepsi, then fuck this idea with a 50 ft pole up a coal infested asshole filled with crab cakes....
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There's a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% chance prices will raise on everything.
 
Strenuus said:
When they see the money coming in, it'll happen much faster.

NBA acts on money. They don't think about the consumer. They may make you think they do, but they couldn't care less about the consumer.
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No company thinks about the consumer, except in terms of pigs going to market. Companies are practically by definition sociopathic, inhumane, exploitive, and cruel. We choose our hypocricies when we buy products and maintain moral stances on anything.
 
I hate ads if I wasnt renting a room to someone that wanted tv I would still only have netflix. The thing that pisses me off about ads is every time I see one someone some where is getting paid for my inconvenience. And I especially hate tv ads because im paying to be fed this shit. Blazers jerseys have always been sexy but I will NEVER buy one with an ad on it.
 
This could be really ugly. Definitely inevitable though, maybe having one of the richest owners will save us the indignity? Is Tom Peterson's still a thing? His mug on the Jersey wouldn't be too bad.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
It's the refs that should have ads on their uniforms, because they're bought anyways.
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The umpires in the Australian Football League are sponsored by OPSM.... a prescription glasses company.

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HCP said:
Wow. I grew up watching the Lakers and Sixers and Celtics battle it out on TV with a basketball in my hands with hoop posters on my wall. Then at halftime and as soon as the game ended ran outside and played the game till it got dark. I am a fan of the game, pure and simple. They could wear garbage bags and I'd still watch. To each his own huh?
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I feel you on that
 
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