Author Topic: Do you need a good PR Dept to improve your chances of winning in the playoffs  (Read 890 times)

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Offline Ogaju

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The NBA is first and foremost an entertainment business. It thrives on ad revenue ultimately, and the ad companies need viewers. The NBA has a marketing strategy based on star players, especially when their flagship team The Lakers aren't that good. To go deep in the playoffs it helps your cause to have a compelling marketing story...usually a superstar people want to see for whatever reasons.

Toronto carries a whole nation on its back so it is going to be competitive.

Other than individual compelling stories, the NBA can sell Giannis to the European basketball community and thereby expand its market,

Therefore I summit that a good PR dept that enhances its players marketability is perhaps as important as the x and is.


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Sounds like excuse-making.  Milwaukee isn’t 2-2 due to marketing.


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The point is NBA is a superstar league, you want success you better make sure your stars are recognized by the NBA.

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Or maybe these marketable superstars improve a team's chances because they are, in fact, better than the players they play against. 

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Or maybe these marketable superstars improve a team's chances because they are, in fact, better than the players they play against.

Kinda chicken and egg....easy to dominate when you get superstar calls directly and by proxy. Just call it both ways kinda like the Indiana Cavs game...looks like the NBA is ready to move on from LBJ.

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Or maybe these marketable superstars improve a team's chances because they are, in fact, better than the players they play against.

Kinda chicken and egg....easy to dominate when you get superstar calls directly and by proxy. Just call it both ways kinda like the Indiana Cavs game...looks like the NBA is ready to move on from LBJ.

Moving on from the best player of this era sounds like a sound marketing decision.


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