Tag: Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant Jersey Number One in China
Kobe Bryant is the NBA’s most popular basketball player in China. Well… according to official* (not those hand stitched fakes seen all over China’s playgrounds) jersey sales. For the fourth year in a row the Lakers no. 24 jersey is the top seller in the Middle Kingdom. LeBron James finishes the season (pre-trade) in second [...]
Kobe Bryant: Still the king of jersey sales
Kobe Bryant’s reign over the NBA will continue for at least another year… …in jersey sales. Bryant, who has had the NBA’s most popular jersey since the start of the 2008-2009 season, has once again topped the list according to NBA.com, The list is based on sales at the NBA Store in New York City [...]
Kobe vs. Melo…in NBA 2k10
Kobe Bryant versus Carmelo Anthony…in basketball. video game basketball. Winner take all. or something like that.
Welcome to New York, Lebron James.
Saturday, the man-child that is Dwight Howard all but ensured that Cleveland Cavaliers Guard-Forward Lebron James is going to New York for the 2010-2011 NBA season. Speculation about Lebron leaving has been rampant for the past few years, in part because the Cavaliers have given James little in the way of a supporting cast and [...]
NBA to world: You like me, you really like me. Will you still like me without Bron/Kobe?
NBA fans love watching basketball on TV. That’s always been true, but never in the numbers that exist now. It’s almost…Amazing (cue Kanye West…) TNT broke another record Tuesday night, as its coverage of Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals drew 10.1 million viewers, making it the most-watched pro hoops playoff game in [...]
Nike: Cutting Jobs, signing Cristiano Ronaldo, making me hate them
Is it possible for Nike to still mean “victory” in the current economic recession? The shoe/athletic apparel giant has decided to strategically realign its business. And yes, realignment is a lot easier when there aren’t as many people, right? RIGHT! Shoe and apparel company Nike Inc. said Thursday that it will cut about 1,750 jobs [...]
