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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-year-old NBA from a business perspective. Covering the late 1940s to 2009, it focuses on the league's expansions and mergers, team territories and relocations, franchise organizations and operations, basketball arenas and markets, and NBA domestic and international affairs. Readers will gain an insight into when, how, and why the NBA emerged, reformed, and gradually matured to become one of the world's most dominant, prosperous, and popular professional sports organizations today.
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Measuring players’ importance in basketball using the generalized Shapley value
Measuring players’ importance in team sports to help coaches and staff with the aim of winning the game is gaining relevance, mainly because of the advent of new data and advanced technologies. In this paper we evaluate each player’s importance - for the first time in basketball - as his/her average marginal contribution to the utility of an ordered subset of players, through a generalized version of the Shapley value, where the value assumed by the generalized characteristic function of the generalized coalitional game is expressed in terms of the probability a certain lineup has to win the game. In turn, such probability is estimated by applying a logistic regression model in which the response is represented by the game outcome and the Dean’s factors are used as explanatory features. Then, we estimate the generalized Shapley values of the players, with associated bootstrap confidence intervals. A novelty, allowed by explicitly considering single lineups, is represented by the possibility of forming best lineups based on players’ estimated generalized Shapley values conditional on specific constraints, such as an injury or an “a-priori” coach’s decision. A comparison of our proposed approach with industry-standard counterparts shows a strong linear relation. We show the application of our proposed method to seventeen full NBA seasons (from 2004/2005 to 2020/21). We eventually estimate generalized Shapley values for Utah Jazz players and we show how our method is allowed to be used to form best lineups.
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The 2020 NBA Orthobiologics Consensus Statement
This 2020 NBA Orthobiologics Consensus Statement provides a concise summary of available literature and practical clinical guidelines for team physicians and players. We recognize that orthobiologic injections are a generally safe treatment modality with a significant potential to reduce pain and expedite early return to play in specific musculoskeletal injuries. The use of orthobiologics in sports medicine to safely reduce time loss and reinjury is of considerable interest, especially as it relates to the potential effect on a professional athlete. While these novel substances have potential to enhance healing and regeneration of injured tissues, there is a lack of robust data to support their regular use at this time. There are no absolutes when considering the implementation of orthobiologics, and unbiased clinical judgment with an emphasis on player safety should always prevail. Current best evidence supports the following:
Key Points
There is support for the use of leukocyte-poor platelet-rich plasma in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.
There is support for consideration of using leukocyte-rich platelet-rich plasma for patellar tendinopathy.
The efficacy of using mesenchymal stromal cell injections in the management of joint and soft tissue injuries remains unproven at this time. There are very few data to suggest that current cell therapy treatments lead to any true functional tissue regeneration. Meticulous and sterile preparation guidelines must be followed to minimize the risk for infection and adverse events if these treatments are pursued.
Given the high variability in orthobiologic formulations, team physicians must stay up-to-date with the most recent peer-reviewed literature and orthobiologic preparation protocols for specific injuries.
Evidence-based treatment algorithms are necessary to identify the optimal orthobiologic formulations for specific tissues and injuries in athletes.
Changes in the regulatory environment and improved standardization are required given the exponential increase in utilization as novel techniques and substances are introduced into clinical practice.
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The Division of Gains from Complementarities in Human-Capital-Intensive Activity
This study uses data from the National Basketball Association to explore organizational mechanisms that affect the division of firm surplus in human-capital-intensive activity. It builds on the idea that reciprocal interdependence among team members creates the potential for complementarity. Complementarity, in turn, translates into higher firm surplus. The division of this surplus is subject to bargaining between the firm owner and labor. We argue that when complementarity increases, the firm owner's share of surplus will grow
if
interdependence among team members is symmetric. Furthermore, we identify three levers that make complementarity amenable to managerial design: the nature of
interaction
among team members, the relative
dominance
of team members, and the
composition
of a team. We find that greater interaction among team members and higher recruitment of team-oriented individuals are associated with increased complementarity, whereas dominant team members are associated with reduced complementarity. The study contributes to the literature on organization design by extending its implications to the division of surplus in human-capital-intensive activity.
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Sports team success and managerial decisions: the role of playing-time concentration
PurposeProfessional sports teams employ highly paid managers and coaches to train players and make tactical and strategic team decisions. A large literature analyzes the impact of manager decisions on team outcomes. Empirical analysis of manager decisions requires a quantifiable proxy variable for manager decisions. Previous research focused on manager dismissals, tenure on teams, the number of substitutions made in games or the number of healthy players on rosters held out of games for rest, generally finding small positive impacts of manager decisions on team success.Design/methodology/approachThe authors quantify manager decisions by developing a novel measure of game-specific coaching decisions: the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) of playing-time across players on a team roster over the course of a season.FindingsEvidence from two-way fixed effects regression models explaining observed variation in National Basketball Association team winning percentage over the 1999–2000 to 2018–2019 seasons show a significant association between managers’ allocation of playing time and team success. A one standard deviation change in playing-time HHI that reflects a flattened distribution of player talent is associated with between one and two additional wins per season, holding the talent of players on the team roster constant. Heterogeneity exists in the impact across teams with different player talent.Originality/valueThis is one of the first papers to examine playing-time concentration in the NBA. The results are important for understanding how managerial decisions about resource allocation lead to sustained competitive advantage. Linking coaching decisions to wins can help teams to better promote this core product.
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Schools for scandal : the dysfunctional marriage of Division I sports and higher education
For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education.This book chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA’s attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the student-athlete, along with the attendant fiction that the players’ academic achievement is the top priority of Division-I athletic programs. It is an indictment of the current system, making the case that big-time college sports cannot continue its connection to universities without undermining the mission of higher education. It concludes with bold proposals to separate big-time college sports from the university, transforming them into on-campus business operations.
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Sunk costs in the NBA: the salary cap and free agents
The previous research on the role sunk costs play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) has come to mixed conclusions. We use a direct measure of sunk costs, player compensation, and a quasi-experimental method that considers the endogenous relationship between compensation and productivity. Using the spike in salary cap for the 2016–2017 season, from new television broadcasting contracts, we find compensation has a significant effect on playing time. Specifically, we use players signing free agent contracts in 2015–2016 or 2016–2017. For both groups, we analyze the change in salary from the pre-contract season to the post-contract season. Using the difference-in-differences, we find the inflated salary cap, from the new television contracts, increased player compensation by 81.7%, on average. Instrumental variables estimations show the increase in compensation significantly affects playing time. The change in salary yields an additional 1.93 min played per game, which is approximately equal to the effect of a one-standard deviation increase in contemporaneous productivity. Furthermore, we find that our conclusions are robust to the use of various advanced analytical measures or traditional box-score statistics.
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Salary Determination in the Presence of Fixed Revenues
The assumption that workers are paid their marginal product underlies the theory of competitive labor markets and is the basis for comparison with non-competitive markets. Many firms, however, generate revenue in fixed lump-sums that are unrelated to the efforts of current workers. For example, many professional sports receive substantial income from broadcast rights, which are negotiated at wide intervals. We develop a theory of compensation in the presence of “fixed revenue” and test our theory using data from the National Basketball Association. Our results indicate that TV revenue tends to equalize players’ salaries. Players’ performance and popularity tend to enhance players’ bargaining positions. Popularity with fans particularly helps players with greater bargaining power.
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Mitigation of Perverse Incentives in Professional Sports Leagues with Reverse-Order Drafts
Efficacy of industry policy implementation is enhanced when governments expedite resolution of private sector uncertainty. This study reinforces the mechanism through which production outcomes improve, via program evaluation analysis from professional sports. An alternative determination rule for allocating picks in reverse-order drafts—fewest games played when eliminated from playoffs—is considered in comparison with the current standard (fewest wins at end-of-season). Elimination timing is estimated via Monte Carlo simulation. Using MLB and NBA data from 2005-2013, results from a quasi-natural experiment show that when a team's perverse incentive to underperform is effectively removed prior to its final game of the season, its subsequent performance improves significantly.
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