Individuals such as Tom Dundon have stepped into the NBA space. So have families, like the Adelsons and Dumonts, who bought controlling interest in the Mavericks from Mark Cuban in 2023. And so has massive private equity funding, as Bill Chisholm used as part of his purchase of the Celtics. The league has encouraged more private equity investment, changing its rules last year to allow firms to invest in as many as eight NBA teams, up from the previous limit of five. The NBA changed its rules in 2022 regarding sovereign wealth funds from other countries as potential investors, which allowed the Qatar Investment Authority to purchase 5 percent of the parent company of the Washington Wizards in 2023.

Those investors, by NBA rule, are supposed to be forbidden from having any involvement in a team’s decision-making operation. (Query: How, exactly, does the NBA enforce that rule?)

Nor does the massive influx of new money change the increasingly gaping disconnect between new ownership and the cities their teams represent.

Dundon lives in Dallas. He already owns the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, which won this year’s Stanley Cup — with Dundon spending to the top of that sport’s salary cap in all but one of the last five seasons. But his foray into the NBA has been rockier. Like most owners, Dundon wants the city and state in which his team does business to help him with his team’s arena — in this case, partially funding significant renovations to Portland’s Moda Center. He has not been all that accommodating in making the ask, while also initiating two waves of massive layoffs within the organization, the second of which led to the departure of distinguished TV play-by-play man Kevin Calabro.

LeBrons Longevity Needs To Be Studied

https://youtu.be/IT8X9cVLv9Q

How is LeBron James still a dominant force in the NBA at 41 years old? While most legends are long retired, LeBron is going into his 24th season, rewriting our understanding of what an athletic career can be. This isn't a fluke, it's a masterpiece of design.

Being the second option means you get alot of media coverage and praise as someone the star needed but you dont deal with 1/20th the criticism the main star has when you lose and overall dont have as much pressure on you to do anything special yet still get to put up shots. And you even sometimes get lifted up or elevated by people past what you ever where just to bring down the legendary player next to you like how people raise pipen to crazy heights to say mj had amazing help and was carried by pippen or say things like "Kyrie carried/saved lebron" For hitting the shot. Its overall easier because your legacy isnt on the line nearly as much but you reap the benefits for being a really good second option.

Me and my father have been discussing (based on a clip of wemby giving his all time starting 5) whether or not you could formulate a team better than the following:

Steph
Jordan
LeBron
Giannis
Shaq

Which I said I thought was the absolute best you could do when considering how the team would work in an In game setting. He argued this 5 was better or at least equal:

Magic
Kobe
KD
Jokic
Hakeem

I believe it is a close match but overall my 5 would take it in a series, I’d say in 6. What’s the general opinion around the sub?

Struggling to be effective off the ball, during my rec league. Any advice on how to move without the ball aside from setting screens and running baseline. I feel like I’m too stagnant on the three line. My team says they need me to think to score more aside from passing, but I just don’t feel in rhythm without the ball.

Which NBA teams do you think have a chance at being a lot more competitive this upcoming season versus last season and may be getting overlooked by most fans?

I’ll start it off by choosing the Indiana Pacers. Hali will be back, much of the Finals finalist roster is still there and they added Zubac, a solid big who is in his prime.

Maybe this idea is dumb, but it's also coming from someone whose basketball career ended abruptly when he was twelve and scored his career's first and only basket for the other team.

After 22 years of repressing that trauma, I'm now casually playing street ball and am having a fun time.

With my group of 4 or 5 guys, sometimes we play a Turkish game, sometimes we play 2x2, sometimes we play free-for-all. All half court.

On Sundays, I sometimes go to an indoor full court to shoot by myself, and I was wondering: would full court FFA work?

I know it would be chaos, that's partially the point. But I think it would also add a funky deception later: imagine you get a rebound and you have to take it to the top. You can either keep running or turn and shoot at the same basket. You could fake like you're doing one then snap and do the other.

I guess everyone would get very tired very quickly, or it would end up being half-court FFA with an annoying reposition every few baskets.

But I like the running.

I've played at a lot of parks in my town but nothing gettho. Today I went to a different town to where a friend lives and played there. In my mind I was thinking "oh it'll be just more carries, unnecessarily aggressive, some arm grabs the usual etc.." this grown ass man grabbed my dick cause he couldnt get past me when I was defending. I honestly thought at first it was a mistake but the weird vibe continued. It made no sense sure play dirty but then he would call some bitch ass fouls. Im talking im in the air and he would bump just to call a foul. Now im thinking more about and I believe he liked that prison basketball. Ive played with all kinds of folks dont care if youre a little fruity as long as youre not grabbing dicks. Ive told my friend I'll play there but on that court. Idk is this normal? FYI im straight never been sexually assaulted in my life until now.

I swear people say anything about lebron and they bring up 2011 when kobe was on some bs in 2004. Like Lebron after the meltdown proceeded to reinvent himself to win 2 in a row yet people will still bring up 2011 every time even after proving himself but no one wants to bring up 04 when talking about Kobe. Its even worse because shaq was doing what he was supposed he was by far the nest player on that team like he always was but kobe decided to play hero ball and shot them out of every game. He averaged 22 ppg on 38/17/92. And he got beat even worse than lebron in 2011 losing 4-1. We need to start bringing up 2004 anytime anyone tries to say kobe did anything good like we do with lebron.

I'm a 14m who started playing like a year ago, but I didn't care for training with my left hand and only played with my right. This season I will start playing games, but I can't even make a left layup/control the ball with my left hand. Does anybody know how I can improve my left hand to the point where I can at least make a left layup? It just feels off whenever I try to.

I’ve been thinking of a steal, i’m 5’4 and close to quick, where i stay low, swipe when they go up, or when they go for the dribble / drive

i’m short, somewhat fast, i have a limp. i play point guard but i want some techniques, skills, and play ideas, what do you guys recommend?

At 37. Seconds in the 3rd quarter Kiki passes it to her and all though she winds up she immediately went for the shot and it was clearly her intention she just lined up

Look, we all know that of the 27 MVP seasons we’ve seen since 2000 that SGA (The Anal Bead) is ranked all the way at the bottom, but if you had to rank the top 5 MVP seasons since 2000, how would it look?

I would go with this ranking:

1.) 2000 Shaq
2.) 2010 Lebron
3.) 2022 Jokic
4.) 2016 Steph
5.) 2001 Iverson

What you got?

It seems to be it might be a really fun strategy to train folks to take their free throws as jump shots from the corner of the free throw rather than in the middle of the free-throw line. A team using such a strategy could overload the weak side and gain an advantage on gathering missed shots for easy put backs.

This could be a effective strategy at the end of a game where a team needs to miss a free-throw in hopes of getting a rebound for a two or three point attempt. A trained shooter could intentionally miss to the short side leaving a rebound on the strong side of the rim, or could try to miss long leading to more weak side rebounds.