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If they could figure out a way to collect, I'm sure they would give it some thought.
Guess they're more desperate for cash than ever. They can kiss my behind.
If they could figure out a way to collect, I'm sure they would give it some thought.
Well... it seems i wont be buying the new sweater I needed for this cold south american winter... i'll buy the SL package instead...
yeah that was really crap. This is BS
are they this desperate?
Thats not too bad considering its on-demand and can be watch at any time during that period. You can go back and analyze in depth all you want.(1) Subscribers that purchase NBA SUMMER LEAGUE BROADBAND have access to all game archives on a video-on-demand basis from the time they purchase NBA SUMMER LEAGUE BROADBAND through July 26, 2009.
this is the part that scares me, I will be ing pissed and demand my money back if any Spurs games are blacked out. I will go to my bank and have them reject the charge on my card if thats the case.(2) Local and national market blackout rules apply based on your location.
Supply and demand sucks. So if you demand, suck it up.That's right, and it sucks.
$14.99 is a lot cheaper than a Holt Caterpillar.
Also, that's $14.99/30 more for the 2010-11 salary cap, which is a $1 more for the Spurs ($0.50 in cap, $0.50 off the tax.)
I'll s out the $$$ if its decent quality...guess I'll have to wait on reports after the first broadcast.
It makes total sense for the NBA to do this. The fans that are most likely to watch SL games tend to be the "die hards" who are precisely the ones most likely to pay.That's a weak money grab. The NBA is going to penalize it's hardest of hardcore fans? Sometimes I can't understand their marketing.
Obviously I'm going to purchase it but I feel sorry for the hardcore fans who don't have the money laying around to waste it on this BS
I have to disagree. I major in marketing, and I think streaming SL games for free could attract a lot more awareness for these new players and thus increase in revenue.
Well, I know where to go for me to be able to watch it.
BS!
Damn NBA
So you pay 15 bucks to get every game in ty high school quality.
cool!
Son of a ! They decide to do this when I have absolutely no extra money to spend. Damn, and I watch the Summer League games every year. I'm extremely disappointed.
Awareness from whom? I can't see there being a bunch of prospective NBA fans not currently following the sport who are going to choose the summer league as their introduction to the NBA product. The only people tuning in to summer league are people already interested in the NBA.
What product ? Charging for Summer games is a joke. You have a bunch of scrubs peppered with a few quality players that are trying to either improve or make someone's team.
Most of the guys that play won't even be a part of the NBA. The league should have been satisfied with generating interest in its product in the offseason OR found a happy medium by charging much less $$.
Nah, I blame them for not thinking straight.
I take it it's a test to gauge interest. That's exactly why I'm not going to be paying.
revenue - cost = profit. I'm guessing their costs are going up.
NBA draft picks like Griffen and others playing?
NBA players playing period.
Its the NBA's product and as a fellow businessman I don't believe in giving away your product for free either.
Promotions from time to time sure, but just giving it away is insane.
NBA revenues are def. going DOWN in a major way.
They charge for tickets, so you can't say they were giving it away entirely for free. They're just trying to be greedy and monetize it further.
It's their choice to do that. It's my choice not to pay for it and send them a message.
Is pretty simple. Free=more viewers=more awareness from those typical NBA fans that doesn't normally watch summer league.
Lets put it this way, my brother who isn't a dieheart nba fan but likes the sport might sit down to watch these rookies play for free in SL but no way in he'll pay $15 to watch them with low quality broadcasting. As a result, he bro won't give a about SL and rookies lost awareness.
So in either case the NBA isn't going to get any revenue out of him over the summer league. The question then becomes whether or not your brother and everyone else like him will say "I'm not going to watch real NBA games because the league tried to charge me for summer league games". If those people are truly interested in seeing those rookies, then the answer is no, they're not going to avoid the NBA entirely because they didn't feel like paying $15 for summer league.
I get it that as people who are interested in summer league we're pissed off that the NBA is doing this. I'm pissed about it and I'm not going to pay $15. But I don't see how you can argue that if it's revenue the league is interested in, this will help generate some.
Free = 100% of the potential audience contributing $0.
Not free = >0% of the potential audience contributing $15.
Hm..ok how about this.
Free=audience contributing 0 but more tickets/items/commercials sold due to higher awareness of these emerging players
Not free = audience contributing $15 but only from a few loyal dieheart fans.
Do u get my agruement now?
I agree with this. If a casual fan happens to catch a Spurs SL game and likes, say, Blair, then he's more likely to eventually buy Blair gear, or even the NBA League Pass to follow him.
If he has to pay for the SL games, then that won't happen.
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