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Old 05-29-2014, 11:52 PM   #394
nfotiu
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Originally Posted by darklord700 View Post
Or the Knicks, the Bulls, the Celtics. There's a podcast saying there's a sports team valuation bubble. The Pistons and the 76ers were both sold below $500M before the lockout season.
A lot of the sports bubble is based on the RSN bubble. And the Dodgers may prove to be the pin that pops that bubble.

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The deal may turn out to be a tipping point in the escalating costs of sports programming. How the Time Warner Cable deal plays out may affect player salaries, ticket prices and the entire economics of the game.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodger...29-column.html

I think the 2 billion dollar figure is at least partly based on the anticipation of a rich tv deal in the huge southern California tv market. But I don't really see it being that big a windfall with the debacle the Dodger's tv deal is turning into.

The other big boost for valuations is the lowered salary cap. I got to wonder how that will play out in the mindsets of the nba players. The racist owner just pocketed $2 billion because the players agreed to a lower cap. They probably start to see all the owners as the old white men they are getting rich on their backs...
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