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The Length and Success of NBA Careers: Does College Production Predict Professional Outcomes?

Coates, Dennis; Oguntimein, Babatunde - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 1, pp. 4-26

the length of the career. At issue is the effectiveness of NBA executives in identifying college players who will be …

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How Much Trouble Is Early Foul Trouble? Strategically Idling Resources in the NBA

Maymin, Allan; Maymin, Philip; Shen, Eugene - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 7 (2012) 4, pp. 324-339

We analyze a large and comprehensive play-by-play dataset of professional games in the National Basketball Association using tools from financial economics to explore the optimality of strategically idling resources in the face of uncertain future demand. We find that starters ought to be idled...

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Individual Tournament Incentives in a Team Setting: The 2008-09 NBA MVP Race

Nutting, Andrew W. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 3, pp. 208-221

The 2008-09 NBA Most Valuable Player race is modeled as a tournament between LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade …

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Did the Players Give Up Money to Make the NBA Better? Exploring the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement in the National Basketball Association

Berri, David J. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 7 (2012) 2, pp. 158-175

The NBA and its players union reached a new collective bargaining agreement in 2011. As a result of this agreement, the … players will now be receiving less money. The NBA argued that a pay cut for the players was necessary to make the league … better. More specifically, the NBA argued that if the players accepted less money, more teams could afford to field …

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