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It was thought that all owners would be delighted with the new $74.6 billion TV contract negotiated by the NBA. An agreement that will further boost franchise revenues and cause player salaries to explode.

More James Dolanthe Knicks boss who has been at open war with Adam Silver and the leaders of the Major League for years, has nevertheless split from an open letter to criticize the agreement!

A leveling for franchises

Why? Because he believes that it levels things out even more for the franchises. James Dolan does not support the redistribution system put in place by the NBA during the last collective agreements, which require franchises in large markets to give a share of their revenues to franchises in small markets, so that no one loses money. As he is one of the first redistributors, the businessman is annoyed.

“The NBA has adopted the NFL model of reducing the importance and power of the local market”writes James Dolan. “Soon, your only concern for revenue will be ticket sales and next year’s jersey color. But don’t worry, because through revenue pooling, you’re guaranteed neither success nor failure. Of course, to do that, the league must break up the successful franchises and redistribute to the less successful. This new media deal goes a long way toward that goal.”

For James Dolan, the arrival of a streaming platform like Amazon is also a very bad signal, with franchises having fewer and fewer matches to reserve for their local broadcasters, making these agreements complicated.

The businessman is also annoyed by the percentage retained by the NBA, which will reach 8% (6 billion dollars) while it was only 0.5% (15 million dollars) in the current agreement… READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

New York, an exception rather than the rule?

A levy that he judges as such “without sufficient justification… or transparency about how the NBA arrived at this amount, how these costs will be allocated, or the extent to which the league will use this purported increase in revenue to incur additional costs and further increase the league’s ever-increasing level of spending…”

To summarize: James Dolan criticizes the NBA for having bet on an overall increase in its revenues, which it can then share with its franchises, while the Knicks boss believes that it is rather individually that the franchises should work, so as not to penalize the clubs which earn more money.

Of course, on the NBA side, one can retort that the “Big Apple” franchise is more of an exception than the rule, with the biggest market in the league and huge revenues ensured by the constant influx of tourists to Madison Square Garden. Furthermore, the agreements with streaming services like Amazon Prime Video or Peacock are above all a way for the NBA to compensate for the collapse of a large part of the regional TV networks, rather than a way to torpedo the few still prosperous markets (New York, Los Angeles, etc.) in the field.

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The Blues, without their two players charged with aggravated rape, landed at Roissy on Monday evening.

The French XV, which left Buenos Aires on the night of Sunday to Monday at the end of a South American tour that turned into a nightmare, landed at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday at around 7:45 p.m., two hours late, noted an AFP journalist on board the Blues’ plane.

The French, dressed in their official blue uniforms, travelled on board an Air France commercial flight which also included the Argentine athletes on their way to the Paris Olympics, which begin on July 26, according to AFP.

Some of them took a direct connecting flight to return home, like Toulon scrum-half Baptiste Serin, who was named captain of the French XV for this tour. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Two players are missing

The plane took off from Buenos Aires on Sunday evening with a little over two hours of delay at the end of one of the worst weeks in the history of French rugby, which saw two young players from the team, Pau second row Hugo Auradou (20 years old, 1 cap) and La Rochelle third row Oscar Jegou (21 years old, 1 cap), charged on Friday with aggravated rape by the Argentine justice system.

The two players are accused of raping a woman on the night of July 6-7 in a hotel in Mendoza, in the northwest of Argentina, where the French XV had just played the first match of its tour.

Auradou and Jegou, who talk about sexual relations “consented” according to their main Argentine lawyer, have been placed in detention. The examination of their request for placement under house arrest should take “at least ten days”the Mendoza prosecutor’s office said on Friday.

A few hours before the first revelations about this alleged rape, another player from the French XV, Toulon full-back Melvyn Jaminet (25 years old, 20 caps), had been removed from the group after making racist remarks in a video published on July 7, which he said he was “ashamed”.

The sporting record of the South American tour of the Blues, far in the background, is two victories – on July 6 against Argentina (28-13) then on July 10 in Uruguay (43-28) – and a defeat against the Pumas (33-25) on Saturday.

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