Rumblings have surfaced on Thursday morning that make it appear to be more probable that LeBron James will be coming aboard with the New York Knicks following this year.
When LeBron becomes a free agent after the end of the 2010 season, the Cavs will be in the best position to extend him. This is because of the Larry Bird clause, which lets a franchise to go over the salary cap in order to sign their own free agent.
The New York Knicks will offer LeBron a huge deal, but they won't know how to offer LeBron as a lot as the Cavaliers. So they became innovative in the Big Apple and came up with a way to sidestep that blasted salary cap.
The chitchat is that New York won't only offer James a max deal, but furthermore his own cable channel. As you might know, the Knicks are wholly owned by Cablevision, a cable television company.
LeBron would get profits from the advertisers on his cable network. As per basketball rules, the team might not be allowed to set up these sponsorship deals/advertisers for LeBron; he might have to do that on his own. Although I believe we would all concur that LeBron possesses enough acquaintances in the commercial sphere to make that happen.
Speculation is that the channel would show reruns of Knicks games (where the rights belong to Cablevision), in addition to other programming about James, the Knicks, and the NBA. Some have even speculated that Nike would hope to be drawn in and create their own TV show.
The giant question is whether the league might allow this. It appears to be to be entirely within league regulations. The cable television network might be seen as a marginal advantage of playing in NY, similar to many other marketing benefits that come from playing in a particular city. The income would be seen as non-basketball associated revenue.
This is a newborn and attention-grabbing twist in the LeBron-to-be-a-free agent story. The wide-ranging consensus is that Cleveland is leading the stakes. Possibly that is starting to change?
When LeBron becomes a free agent after the end of the 2010 season, the Cavs will be in the best position to extend him. This is because of the Larry Bird clause, which lets a franchise to go over the salary cap in order to sign their own free agent.
The New York Knicks will offer LeBron a huge deal, but they won't know how to offer LeBron as a lot as the Cavaliers. So they became innovative in the Big Apple and came up with a way to sidestep that blasted salary cap.
The chitchat is that New York won't only offer James a max deal, but furthermore his own cable channel. As you might know, the Knicks are wholly owned by Cablevision, a cable television company.
LeBron would get profits from the advertisers on his cable network. As per basketball rules, the team might not be allowed to set up these sponsorship deals/advertisers for LeBron; he might have to do that on his own. Although I believe we would all concur that LeBron possesses enough acquaintances in the commercial sphere to make that happen.
Speculation is that the channel would show reruns of Knicks games (where the rights belong to Cablevision), in addition to other programming about James, the Knicks, and the NBA. Some have even speculated that Nike would hope to be drawn in and create their own TV show.
The giant question is whether the league might allow this. It appears to be to be entirely within league regulations. The cable television network might be seen as a marginal advantage of playing in NY, similar to many other marketing benefits that come from playing in a particular city. The income would be seen as non-basketball associated revenue.
This is a newborn and attention-grabbing twist in the LeBron-to-be-a-free agent story. The wide-ranging consensus is that Cleveland is leading the stakes. Possibly that is starting to change?
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