Ruma85 wrote:bkkrh wrote:nomansland wrote:
Seems like a better alternative would be to have the NBA invest in the Euroleague and then lend it their know-how to improve the revenue model. Over time they can start integrating the leagues so that you can take advantage of NBA branding, pan-continental cups and challenges, and ultimately a real "World" championship. All of that is probably more realistic, more palatable to European fans/consumers, and more sustainable over time. They don't have to create an NBA Jr.
That "know how" on how to improve revenue would be the exact reason fans would start to riot. The American model does not work in Europe. If you are a fan of a team you generally expect that you can afford to watch every home game in the stadium with an average income. Just as an example, the ticket prices for League games for Bayern Munich are between 10 to 56 Euros. For Euroleague games 10 to 65 Euros. If you are ok with a standing place you can get a season ticket for 258 Euros that allows you to watch all 34 regular season German League and Euro League games. If you are younger than 17, an apprentice, or a student, you get a 30% discount on that. If you are younger than 13, over 65 or have a disability, you get a 50% discount.
The Football departments of Real and Barca are according to Forbes in the top 20 of the most valuable Sport Clubs in the world. Man City is 31st, Bayern Munich is 34th, PSG is 47th. It would be super easy for any of these clubs to sign each offseason some decent starter level NBA player for their Basketball teams (minus Man City & PSG, since they don't have one) and pay that player 10-20 Million Euros in salary. They spend more on transfer fees for some bench players of their Football teams.
The reason they don't do it is that it makes no sense from a financial perspective and that the majority of their fans won't care at all if that player was previously a starter on the Clippers, Grizzlies or whatever. What will be problematic though is if those players earn all of a sudden more than the star Football players from the same team, that have a way higher priority in the first place. So it makes a lot more sense to have the current model, where decently talented players earn around 2-3 Million max, while teams are making a loss that does not have much impact and it can be considered in that sense as a marketing expense.
What will definitely not happen is that European fans will spend 100 bucks or more to watch a Basketball game, especially when it costs them half the amount to watch professional Football, which is already way more popular in the first place.
That's not the only problem, travel is bad from the U.S to Europe, if we are talking about this Expansion being a real possibility technology would have to improve, as it takes too long to fly to Europe and Backs, Also it would be bad to put a team in England other then because the Population is high, there's better choices out there.
Yeah, that of course as well. But even if we consider some "NBA Europe" like the NFL Europe previously, it would fail if they want to set it up similar to the NBA.
What I can see working is some cooperation between the leagues. More like a loaning and transfer system as in professional football. Meaning NBA teams can either loan or "sell" players for development in the Euroleague and free up some cap space that way. While on the other side, it becomes easier for Euroleague players to go to the NBA, meaning that there aren't cases that NBA teams still have draft rights of 29 year old players they drafted as a 2nd rounder 8 seasons ago and that player can only earn a rookie salary and sign with that team. Or that NBA teams can fully buy out contracts.
The details would of course matter here, but this I definitely see potentially beneficial for both sides.
