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...Cleveland team has ever played in the NBA Finals. Ever...
...that I ever really followed any of those teams. I went to about five Orioles games every year, but I only had a vague idea of where they were in the standings. Besides, it’s a little depressing when the owners of our NBA franchise came just a few thousand votes away from switching the team name “Bullets”—which they said was a “violent stereotype”-—to the Sea Dogs before settling on Wizards (though I still maintain that the Bullets...
...there would be no confronting Kobe about his anger and selfishness. And no championship trophy. In The Last Season (Penguin; 288 pages), the man who coached nine NBA champions in Chicago and Los Angeles describes the turbulent year that ended his career as leader of the Lakers. While the book is a hoot for basketball fans, Jackson's experiences also offer lessons for anyone dealing with chaos at home or work...
...that amounts to a frayed shoelace compared with losing China's most famous living human. Yao Ming had worn Nike since Rhoads discovered him as a skinny kid with a sweet jumper--and brought him some size 18s made for NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning. In 1999 he signed Yao to a four-year contract worth $200,000. But Nike let his contract expire last year. Yao defected to Reebok for an estimated $100 million. The failure leaves Nike executives visibly dejected. "The only thing I know is, we lost Yao Ming," says a Shanghai executive who negotiated with...
Nike is determined not to repeat the mistake. It has already signed China's next NBA prospect, the 7-ft. Yi Jianlian, 18, who plays for the Guangdong Tigers. And the company has resolved problems that dogged it a few years ago. Nike has cleaned up its shop floors. It cut its footwear suppliers in China from 40 to 16, and 15 of those sell only to Nike, allowing the company to monitor conditions more easily. At Shoetown in the southern city of Guangzhou, 10,000 mostly female laborers work legal hours stitching shoes for $95 a month--more than...