A professional sports league is synonymous with its athletes. However, there are different scales for superstars and Stephen Curry stands out. He is an emphatic and intelligent player who has gone beyond local, regional and national status and become a face of the league and a proud athletic icon of not only the Bay Area […]
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NBA, LeBron James and global branding of basketball
The presence of super star players reflects a profitable narrative in the sports-entertainment-nexus of the American sports economy and the NBA. In historic light, the NBA is a sports product, which was boosted by the successful co-branding associated with players like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Julius Erving, Earvin ’Magic’ Johnson and […]
NBA, LeBron James og global sportsbranding af basketball
”For mig handler det om at inspirere ungdommen, de børn som ser op til mig som en kilde til inspiration. Det er, hvad der driver mig hver dag til at spille det spil, som jeg elsker, fordi jeg ved, at der er børn derude, som har brug for hjælp. De har brug for én, som […]
Sports sponsorship case – the airlines industry and the dominant force of Emirates
Airlines are very visible in the world of sports and spend vast amounts of money on sports sponsorship opportunities. As I have covered in other articles, see articles about big spenders in sports sponsorship and the football shirt sponsorship market, the prominent airline brand in that sense proves to be Emirates that supposedly spends approximately […]
Fan engagement in the business of sports in 2015
About a week ago, I came home from a good visit in Boston planned due to an inspirational collaboration with Professor Stephen Greyser from Harvard Business School. In his book The Business of Sports, Stephen deals with a holistic approach in terms of analyzing the vitality and omnipresence of sports fans and how these fans […]