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Beginning in the 2017-18 NBA season, you will begin seeing advertisements on team jerseys. When this news first broke a few years back, it immediately made the skin on NBA purists crawl. The thought of that is seems very far from anything we’ve seen in major North American team sports. The 76ers were the first [...]

April 29, 2011 – Allen Moll As soon as Amar’e Stoudemire and Chris Bosh moved to more media friendly cities like New York and Miami, I just knew we would be seeing more of the NBA superstars in print and in commercials. Both have sort of taken a backseat lately, Stoudemire with the arrival of [...]

November 12, 2010 – Allen Moll Just when you thought that the newest member of the Miami Heat, Lebron James, was the NBA’s most shameless promoter by appearing in endless commercials and even staging his own nauseating prime-time TV special “The Decision” to announce his plans for this season, Carmelo Anthony’s newest commercial comes close. Now [...]

November 9, 2010 – Allen Moll While some fans feel that Lebron should be applauded , not hated for blindsiding his former Cleveland fans on live national television in the ill-fated “Decision” to play for Miami this season, the majority opinion still chooses to criticize the 2 time league MVP in the manor of which the news [...]

September 14, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Truth in newspaper advertising for once… The Minnesota Timberwolves are nothing if not honest. The team took out a full-page ad in Monday’s Star Tribune sports section, featuring a long open letter to fans that acknowledges the negatives, points to the positives, and spells out the plan for [...]

July 20, 2010 – Dr. Dime Amar’e Stoudemire is leaving Phoenix for New York but that’s not to say he’s not grateful to the City of Phoenix and the Suns organization for the opportunities they provided him. Amidst all the chatter about Lebron James and the bridges he burned in Cleveland by the way he [...]