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NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
NBA lockout carries hidden costs
UpdatedOct 15, 2011 12:27 AM ETThe Spurs stand to lose more than $1million in gate receipts, concessions, parking and merchandisesales for every canceled game now that the first wholesale jerseys two weeks of theNBA season have been called off, according to a local marketingprofessor.What will San Antonio lose?Nailing down the precise economic impact of having the city'sonly major professional sports Nnamdi Asomugha Jersey team go dark is as slippery as anowners-players agreement.The San Antonio area gets an estimated $95 million yearly boostfrom the Spurs' presence, said David Bojanic,a marketing Leigh Bodden Jersey professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio whoteaches courses in destination marketing, sport management andevent management. But it's difficult to say how the loss of part -or even all - of a season really would impact the community.The NBA has canceled preseason games and the first two weeks ofthe regular season so far, and no formal talks between owners andplayers are scheduled."Several studies have looked at the long-term macroeconomicimpact of strikes, lockouts or teams leaving, and have found nosignificant impact on the economy," Bojanic said.But in the short term, workers such as parking attendants,ticket takers, concession workers and the like at the ATTCenter will be looking at reduced hours and pay. Businesses such assports bars could see a dip, and hotels won't be housing visitingteam's players, the media or anyone staying overnight in SanAntonio to see a game."It's the small guys that get hurt," County Judge Nelson Wolffsaid.Another immediate loss would be San Antonio's presence on TVscreens across the country during games, Wolff said, adding: "Welose some valuable visibility."Bojanic said the Spurs bring in an estimated $1million per game in gate receipts, and when concessions, parkingand merchandise sales are added in, the per-game total rises toabout $1.2 to $1.5 million.But most of that money goes Matt Schaub Jersey to players and owners, who likelyinvest a large slice in savings, stocks or out-of-town realestate."A lot of the money didn't filter down to the local economyanyway," Bojanic said.Discretionary money that Spurs fans, especially season ticketholders, would have spent on game tickets also now will gosomeplace else, to things such as restaurant meals orvacations."It's all discretionary income," Bojanic said. "If Santana Moss Jersey I decide I'mgoing to do a home improvement on my house, it stays in the localeconomy. The worst thing is if someone says, 'I'll Jeff Saturday Jersey just take a tripto Orlando.' That's a $5,000 trip and Orlando is going to get thatmoney."The team's parent company, Spurs Sports and Entertainment, canmake up some revenue by booking other events for the ATTCenter. The only time the Spurs don't control the arena isduring the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, scheduled Feb. 9 to26.The arena also is the home court for the WNBA Silver Spurs and the Rampage hockeyteam.The Spurs declined to comment oncontingency plans for the ATT Center. A call to the LosAngeles-based AEG Live, which books the entertainment acts thatfill the ATT Center when the teams aren't playing in it,wasn't returned Tuesday."My hope is that it won't be detrimental to anybody's bottomline, but especially the team's," County Commissioner Paul Elizondosaid. "It's real tough to keep a pro team going, and we're not alarge market. Anything would have an effect, but how much I don'tknow."One thing is clear. Bexar County won't forgo or forgive the Spurs' arena rent: about $1.2million a year. The rental payment, along with the hotel bed andcar rental taxes levied on visitors, is security for paying off a$75 million bond issue for improvements to the ATT Center.The Spurs are contributing Ryan Torain Jersey $15 million,but the improvements - and the payments on the $15 million - aren'tscheduled to start for another few years, and so shouldn't affectthe team's bottom line this year.One area where the county might give the Spurs a break: a $1 million annualmaintenance fund the team is responsible for, and for which theteam raises money through a $1 surcharge on parking and tickets forSpurs games. But fewer games meansless wear and tear on the arena, and so the team might get a breakif the lockout drags on."It might be something that is worthy of discussion," Wolffsaid.That leaves the most immediate blow to the city a psychologicalone: the depressing inability of Spurs fans to get their fix."The biggest hit on the city is the Michael Vick Jersey fan identification," Bojanicsaid. "They're going to feel left out. All of the rich players andowners are complaining, and the guy who makes $30,000 a year won'tbe able to watch games."Express-News archives contributed to this report.Terms return false">Privacy |Copyright |? 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wade leery about NBA labor status
UpdatedOct 14, 2011 10:05 PM ETBRADENTON, Fla. (AP)Dwyane Wade thinks it's ''unrealistic'' for the NBA to expect every team to be competitive every season, is bothered by the notion that player greed is fueling the lockout, and sounds less than optimistic that mediation will end the impasse.NBA LOCKOUTSeason's first two weeks canceledAre some players ready to fold?Horrow video: What's at stake?Reiter: NBA really blowing itWitz: Players stand unitedWhitlock: Owners at faultSports' longest work Peyton Manning Jersey stoppages10 biggest lockout losersAnd he suspects some owners are in no hurry to see a new labor deal because of lingering bitterness over what the Miami Heat did last summer.In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the All-Star Heat guard said he's growing increasingly concerned that more games - maybe Jordy Nelson Jersey many more games - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Jersey might be canceled before this lockout ends.''The longer it goes on, the more fans we're going to lose,'' Wade said.That may be the one statement on which both sides can agree.On everything else, as Commissioner David Stern said this week when he canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games, there's a gulf between owners and players. The sides will try to get closer to a deal next week by meeting with a mediator. Stern has said that if progress isn't made by Tuesday, more trouble may loom.Wade said the NBA has done an ''amazing'' job in getting its message out to basketball fans during the lockout. Players, he said, have not wanted to take the same approach as the NBA on the battle of perception.''We haven't done a great job of complaining,'' Wade said. ''That's John Kuhn Jersey what the NBA has done, they've done a great job of complaining. We haven't done a great job of that so no one sees our side. They more so see the owners' side.'' /*.vxpMultiLiteControlBar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteAd { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; }*/ .vxpMultiLiteTitle { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExpandedInfo { visibility: hidden; Ray Rice Jersey height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteExtraRow { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } .vxpMultiLiteMetadata { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } MsnVideoUx.render("StoryPageV5InlineVideo", "fs-article-inline-video-player-2", {"StoryPageV5InlineVideoReferenceId.DefaultVideo": {videoQuery: {videoFilter: {type: "Uuid", uuids: ["f5fb045a-92dc-45a0-a68d-eac61067529a"]}}}}, {csid:"ux-cms-en-us-sports"});And that side is this: Without more competitive balance, the league can't succeed.''There's a real willingness of the high-grossing teams to pitch in and put in some dollars,'' Stern told NBA TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night. ''And there's a real desire on the low-grossing teams to have the money to make them competitive.''Wade and Stern discussed that point during a sometimes contentious meeting several top players attended in New York a couple weeks ago, and just as he did then, the star doesn't agree with the commissioner.''Let's just take the owners and the NBA saying we want every team to be competitive,'' Wade said. ''We want every team to have the same chips to start with. You tell me that corporations and business around the world that every is equal one and I'll show you a lie. You have some up here, you have some down here. That's the game. We have some huge markets. We have some small markets.''To me, it's not about who has the most chips,'' Wade added. ''I think it's about who manages their chips the right way. That's why I think we have a management problem. Small markets have won championships. San Antonio is a very small market and they have four championships in the last 10 years or whatever the case may be. So I don't know how you ever fix it unless you have realistic goals. It has to get a little more realistic and right now, it's not.''WHAT A WASTE!Every NBA owner is throwing away money Tom Brady Jersey on at least one player. Here's the worst contract on each team.To be clear, Wade has not given up hope for the season. Far from it.He was at the IMG Academies in Florida, about a four-hour drive from Miami, on Friday for five hours of testing in Gatorade's new sports science lab, getting poked and prodded with hopes that researchers can find some new way to help him on the court. Wade is a Gatorade spokesman, and the facility at IMG is one of at least four Gatorade plans to open worldwide for new research.That being said, he is realistic.He knows the Heat galvanized both their fans and their detractors - including some NBA team owners - in July 2010, when Miami found a way to not only keep Wade but sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh, among others. Wade took a contract that was worth $17 million less than what the Heat would have been allowed to offer to make those deals happen.Given that, Wade suspects there's some out there that would be thrilled if the Heat were not back on the floor anytime soon.''I'm Lance Briggs Jersey not going to say it's all about the Miami Heat, but it makes it a little easier to sit on your hands. I'm going to say that,'' Wade said. ''It makes it a little easier for others to sit on their hands because I know, I'm sure, teams that have an opportunity and feel like they can compete right now, they're ready to go. If 20 other teams don't feel they have that opportunity, they sit on their hands. So it affects the Miami Heat, obviously.''Wade makes an estimated $25 million to $30 million annually in on- and off-court earnings. He knows why fans are upset that players and owners can't find a solution when the nation's economy is struggling and unemployment is Matt Forte Jersey soaring.''Not at one point have we asked for more money,'' Wade said. ''I've heard people say 'The players are being greedy.' How are we being greedy? ... People need to get in a room and understand what really needs to be done so everyone - not just the owners, not just the players - can continue to grow with the game. That's where we've got to come to an agreement.''
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