Title:
National Basketball Association strategies : business expansions, relocations, and mergers / Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Author:
Jozsa, Frank P., Jr., 1941- author.
Publication Information:
Cham ; New York : Springer, [2015]
Call Number:
GV885.515.N37 J67 2015
Abstract:
This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities in the teams' markets and performances and then as members of divisions and conferences. It measures and compares the emergence, development, and success of the teams by analyzing demographic, economic and sport-specific data. It also discusses the respective mergers of the Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League in 1949, and the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association in 1976.-- From publisher's description.
ISBN:
9783319100579
9783319100593
Series:
SpringerBriefs in economics
SpringerBriefs in economics.
Physical Description:
xi, 125 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- Part I. Expansion franchises -- 2. Before 1976 season -- 3. From 1976 season -- Part II. Team relocations -- 4. Before 1976 season -- 5. From 1976 season -- Part III. League mergers -- 6. National Basketball League-Basketball Association of America -- 7. American Basketball Association-National Basketball Association -- 8. Future strategies.
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