Of the 30 NBA front offices surveyed by NBA.com, 81% of the league’s GMs picked the Lakers to defend their championship and 32% favored Giannis Antetokounmpo to win a third straight MVP award.
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The Board of Governors voted 29-1 in approving the NBA’s media rights deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon with the lone “no” coming from James Dolan of the New York Knicks, sources tell Tom Friend of the Sports Business Journal. Dolan had sent a letter to his fellow Board of Governors arguing that the NBA was moving toward a model similar to the NFL where local TV revenue was deprioritized.
Some owners sided with Dolan that the NBA shouldn’t point to rising valuations to ease concerns about losing local TV money and sponsorships with the implication being that selling their teams was their best financial recourse.
Sources, however, described the three-hour meeting as a “breeze” as they were also informed that the total value of the media rights package was at $77 billion over 11 years.
The Warriors beat the Rockets, 4-3, in the 2018 Western Conference finals.
The Chicago Bulls have made it no secret that they’ve tried to trade Zach LaVine. Earlier this season, the Bulls held trade talks with the Los Angeles Lakers. Those talks didn’t go very far, and with the Lakers having traded D’Angelo Russell to the Brookly Nets, it’s unlikely those talks will pick back up.
Chicago more recently engaged the Denver Nuggets on a possible deal for LaVine. Those talks aren’t dead, but they have stalled.
Meanwhile. LaVine is putting together one of the best seasons of his career. The veteran wing is averaging 23.6 points on 52/44/81 shooting splits. LaVine is also grabbing 4.6 rebounds and dishing out 4.4 assists per night.
