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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-yea...

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Main Author: Jozsa, Frank P., Jr., 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2011]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-year-old NBA from a business perspective. Covering the late 1940s to 2009, it focuses on the league's expansions and mergers, team territories and relocations, franchise organizations and operations, basketball arenas and markets, and NBA domestic and international affairs. Readers will gain an insight into when, how, and why the NBA emerged, reformed, and gradually matured to become one of the world's most dominant, prosperous, and popular professional sports organizations today.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
ISBN:9789814313919
9814313912

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