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NBA Expansion 101: How adding new teams could help solve league's current financial crisis due to coronavirus
The NBA is a 30-team league. It has been a 30-team league for almost two decades, and if Adam Silver is to be believed, it planned to remain a 30-team league for the foreseeable future. Note the past tense of the word "planned," there, because nothing wrecks plans quite like pandemics.
The NBA is absolutely bleeding right now. March estimates suggested a potential billion-dollar loss for the league based only on the coronavirus' impact on this season. If the pandemic stretches on without a vaccine, billions more could be lost in future gate and television revenue. As Silver himself has said, the NBA's financial infrastructure is not built to withstand a prolonged pandemic. Making it through this is going to require cash that the NBA may not have, or may not have the ability to generate through traditional means.
Which brings us back to the league's commitment to a 30-team model.![]()
If the NBA is willing to be flexible on the number of teams it puts on the floor, expansion could solve many of its short-term financial issues. With that in mind, let's dive into everything you need to know about expansion both on and off of the court, starting with the enormous economic ramifications of adding new teams.
How does expansion work, and how much money could it raise?
The simplest way to view expansion, from an economic perspective, is to think of it as the sale of a team that does not exist yet. A buyer or a group of buyers purchases a team not from an existing owner, but from the league itself. As the league is nothing more than the 30 teams that make it up, the sale price is split evenly among those 30 teams, and because it is not considered basketball-related income, the teams keep every cent of that money for themselves. Players see none of it, and they have no say in whether or not the league can expand.
The price of an expansion team is not set in stone.
Typically, it is a slight inflation of the perceived value of a team in a similar market. The Charlotte Bobcats paid a $300 million expansion fee in 2004. Based purely on potential profit, this was a slight overpay. The Dallas Mavericks were sold for less than that at $285 million only four years earlier despite existing in a stronger market, and the Boston Celtics, one of the league's crown jewels, fetched only $360 million in 2002.
Setting a market price in 2020 comes with some complications, though. Obviously the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the global economy has been pronounced, but the complications surrounding expansion pricing extend further than that.
The last three teams that have changed hands were sold at market-shattering prices. The Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets both sold for at least $2 billion, but perhaps more telling was the $850 million price that the Atlanta Hawks garnered in a relatively modest NBA market. Four years earlier, the Philadephia 76ers fetched only one-third of that price at $280 million with a nearly identical metro population and more concentrated wealth.
Five years ago, the NBA was in the middle of a valuation boom, but television ratings have since declined and the pandemic has put the league in a vulnerable position. They certainly wouldn't settle for those early-decade prices, but buyers wouldn't be willing to pay the premium that Steve Ballmer (Clippers) and Tillman Fertitta (Rockets) did, either.
Even given the current economic state of the world, interest is so great that the league would likely draw hefty fees. While the $2 billion figure an anonymous owner gave The Athletic's David Aldridge in 2017 is likely far-fetched, it is not a stretch to suggest $1.5 billion as a starting point. At that price, each team would get a $50 million payout to do with what they saw fit.
What are the downsides for the league?
Remember that slight inflation of market value I mentioned earlier? It comes because the mere presence of a new team lowers the value of any existing ones. Why? Television. Adding a new market adds very little value to the league as a nationally televised product because the primary drivers of ratings, such as the existing big-market teams and the postseason, remain unchanged.
But because national television revenue is shared evenly among all teams, those new teams cut into the income every other team would generate even if they aren't creating more of it. There are other revenue streams that are affected similarly, but television is the most important. Think of the new owners as angel investors buying stock in the league as a whole. It infuses cash into the business immediately, but dilutes the long-term earnings for any previous investors.
And then there's the invisible cost of leverage. Leagues prefer to keep a deep stable of possible relocation markets in their back pocket to hold over their existing cities. If one of those cities doesn't want to play ball on a new arena, the NBA can merely point to what happened to Seattle as proof that it isn't bluffing when it threatens to move a team. Filling in the best available markets takes them off the board as leverage. Sending a team back to a preexisting market greatly weakens the league's negotiating power as a whole.
What's the harm in losing a team if you can just get a new one in a decade or two?
How would expansion impact the product on the floor?
Cover your ears, children; it's time for the dreaded "D" word. Adding new teams does not expand the existing player pool, so more teams wind up sharing the same amount of talent. That means inevitable talent dilution. Accumulating top players becomes harder for teams when newer competitors for those players arise, but that distribution tends not to be even. Expansion teams tend to serve as roadkill for their contending counterparts. The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls won 72 games, but did so at a point in which six new teams had been added to the league within the previous seven seasons. Servicing all of those new markets wound up fattening the league up for slaughter at the hands of Michael Jordan.
There's also the prospect of realignment. The NBA currently has 30 teams. For the sake of balance, it cannot add a single team. It would be unfair to one conference if the other had fewer competitors, therefore, any expansion plan likely has to account for two new teams.
Where those teams fall geographically means quite a bit. As we'll discuss, most of the best expansion markets would make more sense in the Western Conference. To compensate, that could allow for a current Western Conference team to switch over to the East. Minnesota and Memphis both make geographical sense, and moving one of them would cut down on travel time for both themselves and the rest of the league.
And then there's the matter of the schedule. The current system pits each team against their divisional opponents four times, their non-conference opponents twice, and then splits up the remainder of their conference opponents so that they play six of them four times and the remaining four three times. That math falls apart with two more teams.
There are a few ways the league could go about changing that. If, for instance, the idea of cutting games out of the regular season gains any traction, teams could theoretically play each of their non-conference opponents twice and each of their conference opponents three times.
That would put a total of 77 games on the schedule. If the league remains squeamish, especially after diluting its revenue, it could add extra games against divisional opponents, or even some form of flexible scheduling to accommodate either a play-in or mid-season tournament.
How do expansion teams fill their rosters?
When new teams are born, the NBA fills them with something called an expansion draft. In this exercise, every team in the NBA is allowed to protect a certain number of its players (in 2004, it was eight). If a team has less than eight players under contract, then it must make at least one player available. Any player left unprotected could then be drafted by the expansion team, but no existing NBA team can lose more than one player. Such rules would be subject to change, but that was the system used for the Bobcats in the league's last expansion draft. Typically, the players made available aren't particularly desirable, but occasional gems slip through the cracks.
Gerald Wallace, B.J. Armstrong, Rick Mahorn and Walt Bellamy stand out as some of the biggest names ever selected.
Expansion teams also have picks in the actual NBA Draft. There is no hard-and-fast rule for determining where they select in their inaugural seasons. The then-Vancouver Grizzlies and Toronto Raptors selected No. 6 and No. 7, respectively, in 1995. The Bobcats had the No. 4 pick, but traded up to No. 2. These picks were not awarded in the lottery, but were given out by the commissioner.
Finally, we need to address the cap. Considering their lack of prior financial burdens, the NBA limits how much new teams can spend in order to protect the rest of the league from being easily outbid for free agents. In an expansion team's first season, it can use only 66.7 percent of the cap, and in its second, it can use up to 80 percent of the cap. In its third season, an expansion team has the entire salary cap at its disposal.
How does it impact players?
Players don't technically have a say in the decision to expand, but they hold an unusual amount of leverage at this particular moment.
While no expansion decision is remotely imminent, doing so while the league is still sorting through the fallout of COVID-19 would likely require some degree of cooperation from the players due to the inevitable negotiations that will take place over a number of other coronavirus-related concerns.
If the NBA wanted to scrap the CBA-designated method of setting the salary cap in the interest of a short-term alternative, for instance, it would need the players to sign off. There's also the threat of a strike if players and owners ever disagree on the safety of playing during the pandemic. The two sides will have to work closely together on a number of issues over the next several years. A fully unilateral decision to expand likely wouldn't be well-received.
Fortunately, even if the league did decide to expand without communicating with the union, there are several benefits for players who wouldn't have to be collectively bargained. The biggest is the influx of new jobs. Two new teams mean 30 new roster spots and four more two-way slots to be filled.
For rank-and-file union members, that could be the difference between remaining in the NBA and heading to Europe, and it would certainly help a number of fringe players reach the necessary three years of service for their pensions to vest. For higher-level players, more teams equals more competition for their services, which theoretically drives up price.
There's also valuable optionality in having more markets in the league. Not only does that mean players have more cities to choose from in free agency, but it creates meaningful stylistic diversity. This is especially important in light of the homogenization of playing styles currently taking place around the league. As teams continue to emphasize shooting, extra franchises mean extra chances for deviation. That deviation creates opportunities for different sorts of players to get paid.
The downsides, though, are potentially significant. While the short-term salary cap is in flux, it will eventually revert to its typical state: a predetermined percentage of projected revenue split equally among every team.
New teams do generate new revenue locally, but as we've discussed, have little value on the national stage, so while the league's total revenue would rise with expansion, it would not grow nearly enough to offset the damage of dividing that revenue among 32 teams rather than 30. Put more simply, adding teams lowers the cap.
That impacts players at every level. The maximum salary is defined as a percentage of the cap in a given year. The Mid-Level Exception is based on the average salary in a given year. While the minimum salary is predetermined, a lowered cap limits financial upward mobility through common sense. Teams will always prioritize spending their space on better players, so cutting into cap space would likely force lower-level players to accept minimum deals more readily because there just wouldn't be space available.
While the union would not have the power to demand concessions upon the immediate formation of expansion teams, it could negotiate its way around some of these hurdles.
A possible solution to a lower max, for instance, would be to loosen the eligibility restrictions on both "Rose Rule" (prohibits teams from having two designated players on their roster at the same time), and supermax contracts. Both allow players to earn above their designated max by reaching certain criteria. The criteria for each include All-NBA selections, so perhaps the addition of a fourth All-NBA team would offset some of the damage. If the average salary declines, the NBA could offset some of the lost Mid-Level salary by raising the ceiling on other forms of the exception, such as the Tax-Payer- and Cap Room-Mid-Level Exceptions. These are merely suggestions. The overarching point is that the union could solve many of the problems new teams would present while also reaping the benefits those extra jobs created.
What are the likeliest expansion markets?
Broadly speaking, a city needs to hit a few important checkmarks in order to interest the NBA. It needs to either have an NBA-ready arena or the willingness to build one.
It needs to hit not only a certain population threshold, but contain enough of a corporate presence to fill luxury boxes and other premium seats. It needs to be a certain distance away from other NBA markets so as not to impede on their territory. And it needs to have some interest in either basketball or at least more professional sports.
That describes at least a dozen cities that don't currently have teams, but four stand out. With apologies to Pittsburgh, Anaheim, Louisville and Virginia Beach, these are the four cities that check the most boxes for the NBA:
Seattle: The city that the NBA left over a decade ago is the one it could potentially return to now for two main reasons. The first is the redevelopment of KeyArena. Seattle was not willing to invest in a stadium in 2007. It is already doing so now even without the guarantee of a franchise. When finished, the new KeyArena will be able to support both an NBA and an NHL team.
Seattle's other major advantage? Its status as a tech hub, led by Amazon.
A new team would have no trouble filling its luxury boxes, and while Chris Hansen would be viewed as the heavy front-runner to lead an ownership group, Seattle has so many billionaires in and around the city that the NBA could potentially drum up something of a bidding war for the right to revive the Sonics. Seattle fans have made it perfectly clear that they want a team back. The city has supported NBA basketball before. It is the second-biggest American market without a team right now (behind only Tampa Bay). On paper, this is a slam dunk.
The only concern the NBA might have is setting the precedent that it is willing to send teams back to abandoned markets. If Seattle gets a team back, what would stop any other city from assuming it could lose a team and get it back down the line as well? This would appear to be more of a concern under David Stern than it is under Adam Silver, but it's the only major hiccup in a potential Seattle bid.
Las Vegas: So far, professional sports have flourished in Vegas.
The Golden Knights have thrived in T-Mobile Arena (which an NBA team would presumably share), and the Raiders are about to move into a state-of-the-art new stadium. The league already has a foothold in the desert, thanks to summer league and the G League Showcase. Vegas is a relatively small market, beating only New Orleans, Memphis and Oklahoma City in size, but it draws such massive tourism traffic under normal circumstances that filling an arena likely wouldn't be a problem.
But the tourism industry is a double-edged sword. Vegas is getting slammed by the coronavirus because it is almost entirely dependent on tourism revenue. Even if a vaccine is found, it will take the global economy years afterward to recover to the point at which people will have enough disposable income to travel at prior levels. Vegas made perfect sense a year ago. Now? The city is facing so much economic uncertainty that its NBA dreams may no longer be viable.
Kansas City: Another fairly small market, but a potentially valuable one.
There isn't another NBA team within 350 miles of Kansas City. A territory that has been casually divided among the Bulls, Pacers, Grizzlies and Thunder could belong to a Kansas City expansion team. The city has a top-notch arena in the Sprint Center just waiting to be filled.
Corporate presence will be Kansas City's greatest challenge. Missouri has a few big ones in its backyard such as Sprint and Anheuser-Busch, but it trails significantly behind Seattle and the Vegas casinos in that way. There is also the question of interest. Yes, the state of Kansas supports its Jayhawks, but the Kings spent over a decade in Kansas City without making much of a dent.
Mexico City: The ultimate wild-card in any expansion talks. Mexico City is the NBA's dream market. It has a bigger population than New York, and a more densely populated one at that. It has a fairly new arena that has hosted NBA games before (albeit with some incidents, including a fire in 2013). International expansion has real momentum right now in light of Toronto's ascension to the top of the league.
If a team can succeed in Canada, then theoretically, it could succeed in Mexico.
But for every benefit, there is a major concern. Mexico City is not particularly wealthy. It is not especially safe either. The NBA had trouble convincing players to move to Vancouver. Mexico City would be an even tougher sell. The altitude would create a potentially unfair home-court advantage and perhaps even some medical concerns. Mexico City has the highest upside of any potential expansion market. It also comes with more risk than literally any city that any North American professional sports league has ever expanded into.
So is this going to happen? And if so, when?
Inertia is the most powerful force in sports. Convincing 30 billionaires to try anything new is difficult because, well, they are already billionaires. What they're doing seems to be working. That was largely true in the NBA before this pandemic. While there have been some notable hiccups, revenue continues to rise annually.
As recently as a year ago, Silver shot down imminent expansion.
But necessity is the mother of invention, and it cannot be argued how badly the NBA needs cash right now. The league already nearly doubled its line of credit. It cut player salaries by 25 percent for the time being, but that measure is temporary, and even with escrow withholdings and the force majeure clause, it is unlikely that teams will be able to shave enough expenses to offset the massive losses they are currently sustaining. With no vaccine in sight, there is no telling when fans will be able to return to arenas. They account for an estimated 40 percent of league revenue.
Some owners can weather this storm. Steve Ballmer has $50 billion. He is going to be fine. Not every owner is so fortunate. Houston's Tilman Fertitta needed to take out a $300 million loan at a 13 percent interest rate just to keep his restaurant empire afloat, and his purchase of the Rockets in the first place already left him heavily leveraged.
Some families that bought their franchises decades ago, including the Buss (Lakers) and Reinsdorf (Bulls and White Sox) ownership groups, lack other significant streams of income outside of professional sports. The same could theoretically be said of Michael Jordan, as premium sneaker sales are likely to decline sharply as well. It's easy to think of owners as a monolith, but the truth of the matter is that their wealth varies wildly and some are significantly better prepared to handle a prolonged loss of revenue than others.
At the moment, it would be naive to assume that expansion is imminent, but it would also be naive to assume that owners aren't considering the prospect. The odds are substantially lower than 50 percent, but the unique circumstances the league now faces ensures that they are higher than zero.
Were the NBA to seriously entertain expansion, the earliest possible timeline would have new teams playing by the 2022-23 season. The Bobcats were announced roughly 18 months before beginning play, but that time frame does not include what were doubtlessly months of negotiations prior.
If the NBA is desperate enough, those negotiations could be expedited, but there is no guarantee. Even if the league decided tomorrow that it wanted to expand, it would likely need at least a few months to find buyers, and then more than a year to integrate those new teams into the league.
Even now, it makes sense to characterize this scenario as "unlikely." There are significant long-term costs associated with expansion that most teams would strongly prefer to avoid. But desperate times call for desperate measures. The NBA may never have faced more desperate times than it is now, and if it is seeking a desperate measure to compensate, expansion is by far the best one available.
How To Build a Championship Basketball Team | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
Every year a champion emerges from the NBA.
Each year, another team has that right balance of chemistry, team spirit, talent, and coaching to bring the team to the top.
As a middle school basketball coach, I have had the pleasure of coaching this great sport, and the way to make a winner is universal from middle school to high school to college to the NBA.
5. Have an intelligent and strategic coach
Having a great coach is a no brainer. A coach has to be able to adjust to game situations and be willing to adjust his offensive system from game to game.
Being knowledgeable as to what plays and players will counteract other teams players and plays is essential.
However, some coaches can have success with talented players, even if the coach lacks in game skills. Stan Van Gundy is a prime example of this. He has talented players in Orlando, and yet he does not have the sense to utilize his talent.
4. Have a Go-to Guy
Kobe Bryant. LeBron James. Carmello Anthony. Dirk Nowitzki. Ray Allen. Dwayne Wade. Chris Paul.
These names strike fear into the hearts of all NBA opponents. In the fourth quarter when you need a big run or a big score, these guys get you going. When your offense is struggling and you need a spark. These guys get you going.
Every team needs a go to guy.
If not, you can let big leads dissipate and be unable to make comebacks of your own. Usually, this player is also your team leader on the court. EVERY champion has one of these on their team.
3. You must have depth at every position
Go to guys can come in a wide variety of flavors. Some are forwards, some are guards, and there can be a few centers here and there.
Take those away though, and you have to have a talented core around the player. To me, this is the order of importance in position.
A-Point Guard
The Current Prototype: Chris Paul
Necessary Skills: Must be an incredible ball handler. Must be the best passer on your team and avoid turnovers. Should be able to dribble penetrate to create open shots for the guards and forwards. Should be very quick, and defend well.
A good point guard should have a wide variety of ball fakes and fade moves to create shots.
Secondary Skills: Should be able to be a shooting threat.
Hopefully, a great point guard can play like a shooting guard to create points. You would also hope that the point guard has great leadership skills.
The point guard is the quarterback of your team. He should be the person who calls plays, and the ball always goes through this player. He should be able to produce points in the lane. Championship teams always have championship point guard play.
B-Center
The Current Prototype: Dwight Howard
Necessary Skills: A Center must be tall AND strong. Just being tall is not enough to be a center. If you are a little weaker, you are a power forward. Must have a plethora of post moves to compliment his rebounding, blocking, and interior defense.
Should be a good dunker/lay-up shooter. Needs to be able to establish position inside the paint by using his body and his strength. Must be a good passer with excellent vision.
Secondary Skills: It is a luxury to have a center who can shoot outside the paint.
(See Brad Miller, Yao Ming, and Big Z.)
A center is a critical component to any team. Not because of plays that run through him, but because of the play extensions a center can bring to a team. Rebounds, put backs, easy buckets, the inside/outside strategy for the guards to get open threes, and drawing a double team are all things that a dominant center can bring to your team.
My suggestion: Find this piece first if your are building a team, regardless of level.
C-Shooting Guard
The Current Prototype: Kobe Bryant
Necessary Skills: Must be a shooting assassin from all ranges. Must be able to dribble off screens and split double teams. Should be an excellent passer. Usually the top defender of the team.
Secondary Skills: Should be able to run the point. Should be able to dribble penetrate and be aggressive towards the rim.
Having a great shooting guard is a luxury. These guys should take the most shots and should have a high shooting percentage.
They should also be able on the most explosive player on the opposing team.
D-Small Forward
The Current Prototype: LeBron James
Necessary Skills: Usually the most talented player on the team in terms of skill sets. Should be a bigger body, able to shoot from all over, and have a great inside presence. Honestly, LeBron James is the player everyone wishes their small forward is.
Secondary Skills: Could be large enough to play power forward or be quick enough to run as a guard (a la LeBron).
This is the ultimate pacifier. The position is not as important as some of the others, but have a great scorer here causes defenses to concentrate on this player also causing mismatches for your guards.
F-Power Forward
The Current Prototype: Kevin Garnett
Necessary Skills: Should be a great defender. Does not need to be a tremendous scorer, but should have a good inside game. Usually the second largest member of the starting squad, should be faster then most centers and capable of playing center in a smaller/quicker lineup.
Should be able to rebound well.
Secondary skills: Shooting range is nice to have for a forward, but not necessary. Dirk Nowitzki is the best shooting PF. Passing usually is not a strength as plays do not go through PF's as often.
This is your blue collar player. He makes the tough rebounds and plays inside. Players like KG and Nowitzki play sort of in a free style way. Everyone wants a tough player like KG as their power forward.
*A note on depth: Depth means having QUALITY players for each position. Generally, you need players that fit YOUR scheme. This does not mean have a bunch of all stars all over the place. This rarely works. Reason? See my number one.
2. Experience
A fairly important aspect of the NBA. Experienced basketball players generally perform better in clutch situations. Shaq was a great clutch player. Kobe is. Ray Allen is probably the most clutch player I have ever seen.
This comes with experience.
Now, some of your depth can be young, but experience among starters is necessary.
1. Chemistry
To me, the most important aspect of the game. Teams with great chemistry win championships. Great teams with poor chemistry lose championships. This is why the Cavaliers have the best chance to win this year.
The Lakers are everyone's favorite. However, they have looked bad at times, due to their arrogance and lack of chemistry. The Cavaliers can not run with the Lakers talent wise, but their chemistry will push them over the top.
How to get into the basketball club - what is a draft in basketball?
Many of you regularly ask questions about how to get into the Nizhny Novgorod BC, or rather, into the junior team and the junior youth team. After talking with the head coach of BC "NN-2" and BC "NN-3" Roman Gorelovsky, we decided to answer all at once and give you a detailed plan on how to conquer Nizhny. Let's get started!
So, I'm a basketball player.
I think I'm pretty good. How old do I have to be to get into the structure of the club?
Answer: BC "NN" is considering candidates born in 2000 this year. and younger.
Comment: This year we will bet on 2003 and 2004. But do not think that everything will be limited only to these ages. If a guy a little older wants to get into the youth team or junior junior league, then we will definitely look at him so as not to miss anyone. But this is selective. By and large, a boy who comes to play with us must be a practically ready-made basketball player. Of course, we allow a certain level of shortcomings, permissible marriage, but still an understanding of the game should already be formed, because this is the maximum age for the main team. That is, a player who comes to us at the age of 20 cannot be at the same level of development as a guy born in 2004. As for the younger age limit, it is about 8-9Class.
Excellent. I fit the age criteria. What to do next?
Answer: send an application.
We will talk about how to do this a little later.
Commentary: Initially, we look at where a potential player is from. If this is Nizhny Novgorod and nearby cities, then they just need to contact the club management or us, leave a request for viewing and arrive at the appointed time. If these are guys from other regions, then everything is a little more complicated here, but still the principle is the same. The necessary phone numbers and email addresses are publicly available on the site, so there should be no problems with this.
Understood. I sent an application. When can we expect a viewing?
Answer: We usually hold screenings during the May holidays or at the end of April, so as not to coincide with the days of school exams.
Comment: When applications have accumulated, we hold a meeting with the coaching staff, where we determine the date and place of viewings (usually these are May holidays), and even then we invite all the guys who left applications.
We have been following some of the local guys for more than a year, we will see someone for the first time, but we still try to look through everyone in order to find out who deserves special attention in the future.
Let's say I came to this preview and the coaching staff liked me. What then?
Answer: do not rush to relax! Another viewing session ahead.
Commentary: We have a second preview for the guys we singled out on the first one. It passes at the beginning of summer. In fact, these are some kind of fees. Last year we went to the Gorodetsky district, this year, perhaps, there will be the Meshchersky sports complex or the base on the Bor. In a word, at these training camps we make a final conclusion on each player and understand whether he made it to the team or not.
I figured it out. And what happens on the screenings? What to be ready for?
Answer: in fact, this is a regular training, but only with a special purpose.
Commentary: We simply give the guys elementary basic exercises, on which we look at the technical preparedness of the player.
That is, how he handles the ball, his dribbling, how much he controls his body, coordination, balance, how the guy learns information in exercises in pairs and triples, his physical condition and endurance, ability to play 1x1, well, game thinking . Although all this is difficult to see in one viewing fee, since constant communication and observation is necessary to fully understand the level of the player. And yet, some moments are noticeable already at the first interactions.
Will all players have a chance or do you select candidates for certain positions?
Answer: We are interested in absolutely all players, regardless of their role on the court.
Commentary: Absolutely any player can come and declare himself. Most importantly, send applications and indicate your data. We will definitely look at each guy, whether he was born in 2000 or 2004.
I am going to visit you from another region. Is it possible? Or are you looking for guys only from the Nizhny Novgorod region?
Answer: First of all, we are interested in local students who have been trained in sports schools in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
But this does not mean that the doors of the club are closed to players from other regions.
Commentary: A person can come even from the other end of Russia. As, for example, the player "НН-2" this season Yegor Chepik. We saw this guy at the IES-BASKET SBL Superfinal, brought him from Blagoveshchensk, and he has been playing for the youth team for a year now. I can say that he has made great progress this season.
I looked at your current line-up and saw that there are a lot of young guys in the rosters. Does this mean that the set will not be as large?
Answer: not at all. The fact that there are practically no children of the maximum allowable age in the teams does not mean that the squads are completed for the next season. Viewings will take place as usual.
Commentary: We do not have a plan to take as many people as possible or, conversely, to limit the limit. Our goal is to focus on the quality of the players. We want to find guys who can potentially progress better than the rest.
If everything goes according to the best scenario, will I be able to get into the main team?
Answer: of course! You don't have to look far for an example. Ex-youth player Georgy Zhbanov is currently playing for the main team, and in a recent home match with CSKA he updated his performance record (18 points). In a word, everything is in your hands!
Everything is cool, but I sent a request for a long time, and you still have not answered. Why?
Response: We are not currently responding to these applications because the exact viewing dates have not yet been determined. As soon as everything is known, we will definitely let you know.
Can I get some advice from the coach before the screenings? What qualities will help me in the first place?
Answer: in short, you just have to be strong in spirit.
Comment: Unrealistic desire, perseverance and diligence. After all, to become a good player and prove yourself, often enough just a strong character.:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/photo_images/7804002/20120707_gav_sv5_038.jpg)
You may be weaker physically, but mentally you are already ready to endure all the difficulties of the training process and progress every day, and this is the most important thing. All the same, many, becoming players of the youth team and junior youth league, face great difficulties, because here you are far from your home, and being a schoolboy, it is very difficult to take such a step and completely change your life. At such moments, the character comes to the fore, so that in spite of everything, you continue to train and do not turn off the path you have chosen.
I understood everything. Please provide a link so I can submit the application.
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Today we're going to take a look at the main aspects of the NBA draft. It is likely that you have already heard about it, but perhaps you do not know how the procedure itself is arranged.
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NBA Draft takes place annually and serves to attract new players to the league. Most of its participants, these are students playing in the NCAA, also cannot do without European players who have proven themselves well in the Euroleague and in international competitions. Often, high school students take part in the draft, although the league is struggling with this, it wants to see educated basketball players in it. By the way, it was from the school bench that Kevin Garnett and LeBron James came to the league. But Kobe Bryant got into the league after high school, straight off the street.
Let's talk about the draft procedure. Now it consists of 2 rounds. Each NBA club selects fielded players in order of their turn. Priority is given to weaker teams that did not qualify for the playoffs. Recently, a lottery procedure has been introduced. This was done so that the teams did not deliberately fail the end of the championship in order to get the first number in the draft.
A player selected for the draft NBA is obligated to sign a contract with the club that chose him, this is the law. The first contract for young players, as a rule, does not promise much profit, so they are happy to accept an invitation from any team. For them, the main thing is to get and gain a foothold in the NBA.
Quite often our players get drafted, so it was with Andrey Kirilenko, Alexey Shved, Viktor Khryapa and Sergey Monya, the list goes on, but here are those who were able to achieve at least something in the major league. By the way, in his first season, Andrei Kirilenko was one of the league's best rookies, which allowed him to take part in the All-Star game.
But you need to know how to get on the basketball team and what it takes? After all, the skills of the game can only be learned in a team.
Basketball team: what does it take to get into it?
Of course, everyone wants to be on a professional team. But this is not easy to do, for this you need to have 1 category in basketball.
Any men's basketball team, just like women's, needs only professionals. But keep in mind that this sport is divided into two categories: professional league and amateurs.
If you have been playing basketball since your school days, and then participated in university city and district competitions, this is not a guarantee that you will be interested in a basketball club. For them, the main thing is how often your team won. And if the indicators turn out to be weak, then the road to professional basketball will be closed to you. But still, what ways can you take to get there?
- All professional basketball clubs are represented on the Internet. You need to go to the site and submit your application. If they are interested in a high-level player, they can invite you to watch. But if you get a refusal, do not despair, there are other options to get into a professional club.
- In every city there is a weaker both men's and women's basketball team, where it is much easier to get into.
If you think that you deserve the best, then you need to show yourself as a leader in this team. When your team starts to win, then there is a chance to move to a higher level. After all, in professional clubs they are watching which players from the minor leagues they can strengthen their team.
In order to get into a lower-level basketball club, you also need to go online and apply. They will definitely ask where you performed. And then they will check what kind of team it is and how it showed itself in the competition.
Creation of an amateur basketball team
In fact, you can play basketball not only in a professional team, but also in an amateur one. Of course, the conditions here are not so good, but you will be doing your favorite thing. After all, in addition to the professional league, there is also an amateur one. To do this, you need to create your own basketball team with your friends. If there are not 10-12 avid basketball players among your friends, then you can go the other way.
To create a basketball team, a recruitment must be announced. And for this, there are special sports forums on the Internet. You should immediately contact the representative of the amateur league at the regional level and find out what conditions exist so that the team can participate in tournaments. We should try to discuss in advance on what conditions your team will be able to take part in the competition.
If you have leadership qualities, then you can definitely create a basketball team and become its captain. The main thing here is desire. And if you become a great player, you can find a sports agent who will look for a club for you at a higher level.
In the history of Ukrainian basketball there are not many players who have made successful careers abroad. And if it still succeeded, then, as a rule, already experienced basketball players with an established reputation. Standing apart in this row is the pupil of the Nikolaev sport swingman Sergey Gladyr, who left to play abroad at the age of 19.
And no matter how critically someone evaluates Gladyr's successes, he has been spending his fifth season in the strongest leagues in Europe and has become one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national team, which has achieved the greatest success over the years of its existence. Due to an injury, Sergei was unable to enter the court in the Euroleague Kiev match with Budivelnyk, but this did not stop PB from talking to him about basketball and more.
- Sergey, at the age of 25 you managed to achieve a lot in sports with your work. And to whom do you owe your arrival in basketball?
- First of all, I owe it to my parents, since I have a basketball family. My father has been working in a basketball club all my adult life, my mother is a physical education teacher at the university, my sister also played basketball, my godfather is Valentin Berestnev. I often came to my dad to work in the gym and over time I fell in love with basketball. And now, since the age of five, I have not parted with the ball.
- Let's go in order. From Nikolaev, you were drafted to the NBA, and then signed a contract with the Spanish Manresa. Was it your goal to leave Ukraine?
-First of all, it was my desire. As a young ambitious player, I wanted to play at a higher level, I wanted to grow as a basketball player. At that time, I received an offer from Spain, and I immediately agreed. In my opinion, this was the perfect career path.
- You stayed in Spain for four years. How can you characterize the DIA League and how is it most different from the Ukrainian one?
- The difference in championships is big. If you compare me in the last season in Ukraine and the last season in Spain, then everything can be seen without words. More specifically, the leagues differ in the overall level of basketball, the skill of the league players, the organization of matches.
- You were selected in the NBA draft, but it didn't work out with America yet. Will there be more attempts to get overseas?
- To be honest, playing in the NBA is my dream.
But I want to not just get there, but to play. Sitting on the bench and not knowing whether you will go out on the court today or not is not for me. But I would really like to play there and feel all this rhythm and the whole level of the strongest league in the world. So yes, I will try.
- The coach of the Ukrainian national team, Mike Fratello has considerable experience in America. Do you feel its influence on your gaming development? In particular, it seems that you have added in physical terms after the national team?
- Regarding my physical development, I'm just growing up. And of course, years of hard work come into play. Mike Fratello helps me grow both technically and mentally. But what swings physical training, it depends only on the player himself.
- Throwing is considered your strongest point. How would you characterize your weaknesses on the court?
- My weakness is the passage, I'm not too strong in this component yet. Of course, I know how to walk into the aisle, but still not as good as I would like in the first place myself.
Another game aspect in which I have something to strive for is defense. Although I am considered a good defender, I myself am sure that I still need to work a lot on defensive actions.
- The Ukrainian team showed a phenomenal result in Slovenia - you are going to the World Cup. What are the team's ambitions there?
— We are going to the World Championship for the first time. And therefore, by and large, we have nothing to lose there. You just need to go out, play, give your best and that's it! In fact, do everything the same as we did in Slovenia, and then the result may be similar.
- Who is the main motivator of the national team in the locker room. Not counting, of course, the coach?
- Dima Zabirchenko, as a captain, tries to cheer everyone up and create a positive atmosphere. But he can scold, if necessary. In turn, I try to support him in all matters.
— After EuroBasket, where you were one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national team, you sign a contract with Nanterre.
Were there any offers from the Superleague?
- "Nanterre" is my personal choice. There were proposals from Budivlnik, but we did not agree. Among a number of reasons, I was not happy that I would be the fifth or sixth small player in the squad. I would have to share playing time with players like Summers, Ahearn, Minard and Drozdov. Which means I wouldn't get a lot of playing time. At Nanterre, there were not so many quality players in my position. The high level of the French championship also played a role.
- Unlike Spain, many Americans play in the French league. How do you feel in such conditions?
- I'm getting used to it slowly, with each game it's getting easier and easier. I train with athletic and fast guys, and it spurs me on. It is clear that it is not easy physically, you need to maintain a high pace of games and training. Partly because of this, the knee could not stand it again. But we will work further.
- Continuing the theme of the Americans.
At EuroBasket 2013, a new “legionnaire” appeared in the Ukrainian national team - Pooh Jetter. Do you think the Ukrainian national team is strong enough not to attract naturalized players?
- I think that at the moment we still lack the first number. As talented and productive as Mishula is, he lacks international experience. He is young and still needs to learn. For this, he has all the makings. If you take Lipovoy, he can take the ball out, play it, but still he is not the first number. Therefore, the main personnel problem of the national team was precisely in the position of a playmaker. We found a player who, in my opinion, is very suitable for our team. He fit into the team both as a person and as a player. Jeter was often the initiator of evening walks after the game, offering to walk and warm up. As a result, we went out to McDonald's for a bite to eat and talk. Pooh is very sociable as a person. And as a player, he helped us in every match.
- When you throw a three-pointer and hit, you make a characteristic gesture with your hand, putting it to your eye.
What does this mean for you?
- In Spain, the games are broadcast on TV, and two years ago one of my friends told me: "Come on, when you score, show me like this!". So in this way, I kind of said hello to him. Since then, it has become a habit, and I already do it for good luck (laughs).
- Apart from basketball, your wife is an Olympic champion (Elena Khomrovaya, fencer - author's note). And you are considered the most successful sports couple in Ukraine. How do two athletes get along at home?
- Get along very well. Actually it helps a lot. We are both athletes, and both understand what it means to be far from home, without loved ones. What is it like to be tired after a workout, when there is no desire to see anyone, but you just want to watch a movie. In addition, Lena goes to all my games.
— And where did you meet?
Sergey: We studied together at the Nikolaev Higher School of Physical Culture
Elena: We studied in different classes.
But we got to know each other closely in 2008 after the Olympics (Elena became the Olympic champion just in Beijing - author's note).
Sergey: I was also famous then (laughs). It was my first year in the national team.
— What basketball shoes do you prefer?
- I love Nike LeBron James. 10th model.
- Who was your childhood idol?
- I grew up on the games of MBK "Nikolaev". Didn't miss a single match. Then the leader of the team was Sasha Raevsky. For us, then, his level seemed something unrealistic. The most vivid memory is of 1998, when we beat Shakhtar in 3rd place. And the idol was Michael Jordan. Watching the NBA live at that time was not possible, but if I came across some kind of video, I immediately watched it to the holes (laughs).
— What is taboo in basketball for you?
- I never get into any conflicts and fights. Even if they attack a player of my team, I will only separate them. We play basketball, not boxing.
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How does the draft work?
The NBA draft system is constantly changing.
Once upon a time there was an infinite number of rounds, "territorial choice", to stand as a candidate right after school.
All players who meet special conditions can be drafted, which will be discussed in more detail a little later.
Teams also participate in a lottery to determine who and under what number will choose. As a rule, the best players are taken under the first draft numbers, but this does not always happen. For example, Darko Milicic, who was selected at number 2 in 2003 right after LeBron, but never received any big awards in the NBA. On the other hand, there are players who were selected in the second round of the draft but became stars: Nikola Jokic (41st pick), Marc Gasol (48th pick), Isaiah Thomas (60th pick) and the list goes on.
The draft lottery is held one month before the draft. Based on its results, the order of selection of players by teams that did not make it to the playoffs is determined. Playoff teams are assigned a draft pick number based on their final spot in the regular season.
There are 1000 combinations in the lottery. Until 2018, the worst team in the pre-draft season received 250 combinations, which is a 25% chance of getting the first pick, after which the number of combinations decreased among all 14 teams. From draft 2019the rules have changed, now the 3 worst teams of last season get the same number of combinations (140), and the 4th worst team - 125, 5th - 105, 6th - 90, 7th - 75, 8th - 60 , 9th - 45, 10th - 30, 11th - 20, 12th - 15, 13th - 10, 14th - 5. If some teams showed the same result in the NBA regular season, then they get an equal number of combinations by adding the combinations from each team and dividing the resulting number by two. If the resulting number is not evenly divisible by the number of teams with equal scores, then a lot is used.
The NBA is trying to make sure that it doesn't make sense for teams to "merge" the season for the first pick, so they equalized the chances of getting the first pick among the worst teams.
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In my blog, I have already mentioned the Moscow Basketball League, the former KFK championship, which is Moscow's basketball championship.
I am directly involved in the organization of these competitions, and for the fifth year I have been managing a club that plays in the MBL system - BC Berkuty. The club cannot yet boast of an achievement - the best result achieved by the team in the MBL championship was 7th place in group A (out of 10 teams) in the 2008/09 seasonand 15th position (out of 20) in the team standings in the same year. It is worth noting the local success at the closed summer IT-Slam tournament in 2008, when the team won bronze medals, but then success was achieved thanks to the attracted legionnaires from among the top players in Moscow.
The team has an excellent coach, the team's website is regularly updated with a great focus on statistics, which are calculated in full for each of the more than 250 games that the team has played over 4 years of existence. The games are organized at the proper level - for 4 years the team has never been punished with a technical defeat. Other factors contributing to the development of the team: the organization of the training process and selection work are at a fairly low level, largely due to the financial component.
The team is self-sufficient, which translates into expenses that fall on the shoulders of the players. The few basketball halls suitable for full-fledged training and official matches are packed to capacity, and the cost of rent is often beyond reasonable. In such conditions, it is quite difficult to count on attracting strong players and organizing a constant training process.
Let's try together to consider the club as a marketing object that has some potential for attracting sponsorship and spectator interest.
Let's start with the simplest - name, logo, club colors, mission or idea.
Title: Basketball Club "Berkuty". Since the founding of the team in 2006, it has remained unchanged. To some extent, a certain image of the team has already been created in amateur basketball in Moscow. The name symbolizes speed, power, energy.
Logo:
Here the situation is more complicated. Due to circumstances inexplicable by logic, the logo strongly resembles the emblem of the Sibir football club, which has been playing in the RFPL since this year:
Therefore, now there is an idea to change the logo.
