A little over a year ago, NBA “experts” were telling us that the Knicks are now much better – and the Nuggets are now in trouble — because Carmelo Anthony was playing in New York. The Knicks clearly concurred when they gave Melo a maximum player salary. Now we are …
My latest for Freakonomics (yes, I wrote two posts this week), focuses on competitive balance in college basketball. One argument the NCAA offers when people ask why the labor that generates multi-billion dollar television contracts are not actually paid is that paying the student-athletes would disrupt competitive balance. As I …
Dre and Dave discuss the good and bad aspects of Sloan.