Cuban might be a switch-hitter (maybe just left handed), but he was right.
The NBA will make money off of the Kobe case. More people will be tuned into the NBA after they finish watching Courtv. More people will go out and buy Kobe jerseys. More people will go to games when Kobe is in town.
I don't even see a long-term negative effect. The American public always forgives. Kobe probably won't go to jail and will be more loved than he ever was in a couple season.
The NBA will be better for it.
Sad to say.
I disagree more people will NOT buy a kobe jersey because of this. laker games were sold out most of the time for road games anyhow IMO.
I will say this though they may make buying single laker vs hometown games impossible to buy though.
and what happens if kobe does go to jail??????????
noone said tyson would.
Cuban's views about Kobe Bryant's case disgusting
Does anybody out there realize Kobe Bryant could go to prison for a very long time?
It sounds like a silly question, given the dozens of KOBE All-Talk Radio stations now operating West of the Mississippi. Not to mention the hundreds of insta-polls circulating on the Internet, the thousands of legal experts who've weighed in on cable television and the millions of words that have appeared in newspapers and magazines.
Obscured in the information avalanche from Colorado, where Bryant will appear today to hear the charges against him, is the possibility the NBA's most exciting player someday could walk out of a courtroom in handcuffs. Because if there's a trial, and Kobe Bryant loses, he'll be slapped with a prison sentence that'll be measured not in mere weeks or months.
The notion of Bryant spending the best years of his life behind thick bars and tall walls should trouble NBA fans and scare NBA owners, but it's as if those who profess to care about the sport are dwelling on everything about the case but the sobering repercussions of a guilty verdict.
The other day, Mark Cuban, Dallas owner/cheerleader, appeared on one of those syndicated entertainment-gossip shows that are the equivalent of a checkout-line tabloid (albeit without the occasional photo spread of Saddam Hussein strolling about a palatial palm court in an evening gown, or exclusive details on the aliens threatening to kidnap Oprah).
Pronouncing his words with a clarity that removed any su ions he was under the influence of an industrial-strength pain medicine when the camera zoomed in on him, Cuban - a smart man and a brilliant self-promoter - put a positive spin on the Bryant case.
"From a business perspective," he said, "it's great for the NBA. It's reality TV. People love train-wreck television, and you hate to admit it, but that is the truth that is the reality today."
Am I missing something? A telegenic athlete marketed as both a transcendent talent and a model citizen is charged with the sexual assault of a teenager ... and it's "great" from an NBA business perspective?
o? According to this spackleheaded logic, the saga of a superstar implicated in an ax slaying would be even more preferable to the Kobe Bryant mess.
Because, hey, as riveting as a train wreck is on television, it can't compare to the who-done-it mystery of a train murder.
Right, Cubes?
I suspect the basketball fan in Mark Cuban envisions Lakers games next season as must-see events, as if any team boasting a starting lineup including Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Payton, Karl Malone and Bryant wouldn't be a must-see attraction, anyway.
I suspect the basketball fan in Cuban is thinking of the buzz that'll accompany wherever the schedule takes them.
Hoo boy, and won't that be fun. Six months of live-remote updates on the evening news, featuring TV reporters standing in front of an arena and saying: "Joan and Lance, the Lakers' bus arrived here 45 minutes ago, and Kobe Bryant had no comment" - cut to a tape of Bryant exiting a bus and walking past several television cameras - "as he made his way to the visitors' entrance on the south side of the building. Back to you, Joan and Lance."
One of these evening-news updates would be enough to feed a gossip-starved nation of 275 million for two months, but they'll become as indigenous to the NBA experience as the flurry of timeouts during the final few seconds of a close game.
At least league commissioner David Stern quickly took Cuban to task for his remarks, not that he isn't practiced in his dealings with the outspoken maverick who owns the Mavericks.
Said the aptly named Stern: "Any suggestion that there will be some economic or promotional benefit to the NBA arising from the charges pending against Kobe Bryant is both misinformed and unseemly."
Unseemly. A great word, one that allows us a rare glimpse into what a league commissioner does when a legal crisis with unprecedented repercussions erupts during the summer. (He pages through the thesaurus on his desk.)
Speaking of unseemly - a tasteful way of saying, "That's in bad taste!" - Bryant will be seen on Fox TV tonight accepting the Favorite Athlete trophy at the Teen Choice Awards. Evidently, he is taking his agents' advice to spend the rest of his summer as usual, which for Kobe Bryant means attending awards shows and going to jewelry stores to purchase $4 million rings for the wife he betrayed.
It's bad advice. True, Bryant is free to live his life however he wants to, but a man charged with sexually assaulting a teenager is a man who should find an excuse to miss the Teen Choice Awards.
For the record, the accusations against Kobe Bryant were made more than a month ago; this is the first time I've confronted the subject. I don't know the facts, and nobody else who wasn't there in the hotel room that night does either. So my thinking has been: It's none of my business.
But I find the cavalier response to the gravity of the situation a little bit bizarre. The focus has been on the courtroom as a media circus, or how the case will affect the marketing arm of the NBA.
Nobody is acknowledging the possibility that Kobe Bryant could go to prison for a long time. This is neither a wish, nor an attempt to infuse some hyperbole into an outrageously public discussion.
It is simply a fact.
As for Mark Cuban and how he sees the box-office benefits of a pending sexual assault charge?
That's a fact, too.
He gives me the creeps. scoop
You brothas get so emotional. You remind me of my b1tch.
What Cuban said is true.
What you simpletons project on top of that is inconsequential.
If you focus on Cuban's words, he is right.
Your feeling regarding the crime should be directed towards Kobe.
Think rationally.
If an anchor for Court TV remarked that the OJ Simpson case would increase his network's ratings, would you be offended? Don't confuse the crime with a correct observation.
Picture Kidman's body after being brutally knifed to death. Her grief sticken parents in tears. Now cut to a court TV reporter blithely saying the case will increase his ratings.If an anchor for Court TV remarked that the OJ Simpson case would increase his network's ratings, would you be offended?
True? Yes. Tactless. Yes.
It's not that hard to comprehend you dullard.
Did Cuban aggressively have sexual intercourse with the hotell attendee?
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Yes. Yes he did, and that's exactly my point.
You look to the media for validation. One article was able to sway your thinking on the Spurs offseason enough for you to start the "We're better" thread.
The article Ducks posted apparently didn't strike your fancy though. Interesting. However it jives with how some feel about Cuban's statements, myself included.
Move on Ghost, if you can't understand my simple point by now then you're thicker than I thought.
People like watching stars fall from grace. People like
contraversy, and people LOVE trials.
OJ, Wynona Rider, now Kobe.
The proof is there to back up what Mark Cuban has said.
Prove it wrong with strong data, not opinions.
It's funny to see "thick" people calling Cuban, or those who
agree with him "thick."
Sith
2Hand, you have no point.,
you are offended by a factual statement by Cuban.
that's your own f'n problem.
Take out your anger on Kobe or stop being a sensitive little biyatch.
I make my own opinions. That SportsIllustrated article helped me see the optimisitc side to this offseason, but nowhere did I write I was convinced that we are better.
Picture Kidman's body after being brutally knifed to death
Who is Kidman?
Do you mean Nicole Brown-Simpson?
Ha! Talk about a Freudian slip there! Good catch Kori, wrong Nicole indeed. I meant Brown of course.
*takes mind out of the gutter*
Pipe down my little conceited one. There's no anger on my part about Cuban as you would like to fabricate. I think he's tactless, that's all. The fact that his statements were true is undisputed and isn't the issue here. I've reiterated this in practically every post in this topic.2Hand, you have no point.,
you are offended by a factual statement by Cuban.
that's your own f'n problem.
Take out your anger on Kobe or stop being a sensitive little biyatch.
I make my own opinions. That SportsIllustrated article helped me see the optimisitc side to this offseason, but nowhere did I write I was convinced that we are better.
Pause. Read. Understand. This means you too, Sith.
I just don't enjoy the mass slander you throw up on this forum when people don't agree with your opinion. I present exhibit A:Grow up a little, eh? It would make things more pleasant around here.What you simpletons project on top of that is inconsequential.
BTW Ghost although it might be hard to wrap you mind around, it is possible to have a factual statement be offensive.
For example, if you had a sister and she was a real hottie, I could say that I would love to strap a saddle on her and have rodeo sex. It might well be the truth, right?
Now imagine me voicing this opinion in a public forum. You might possibly feel a little like the victim's parents in the Kobe case no? I'm sure they were thrilled with Cuban's offhand remarks.
Tactless. That's all.
Another example of something being true but completely innapropriate when voiced in a public forum are the comments made by Tony Parker earlier this summer as it relates to the entire Jason Kidd fiasco.
True, but not meant to be aired to the masses.
Is Mark Cuban dedicated to improving his team and winning in Dallas? Yes!
Is Mark Cuban an outspoken moron that oftentimes resembles a twelve year-old? Yes!
You people need o toughen up.
again, direct your horror to Kobe, not someone who made a factual statement based on the situation.
Pvssies.
Your "b1tch"? I guess you and he take turns now, eh?You brothas get so emotional. You remind me of my b1tch.
Well if it isn;t Archie, the Queen B of 'em all. How's that switchhittin' goin', Arch?
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