I would hate to see that! It would really crap up the uniform. I am sure the league would then still fine players for wearing non-NBA headbands and other uniform violations while the uniforms look uglier than sin with those corporate logos on them. Say no to ads on the unis!
Montgomery Sterns is no doubt foaming at his whorish mouth with this prime opportunity to fetch a few extra nickels and dimes for his pockets....
I could live with it, but they should be done in team colors and blend in, like dark orange logo on light orange uniform type thing.
I'd be for it if it lowered ticket prices instead of increasing salaries, but i highly doubt that will happen. I guess I should have compassion, maybe it would raise enough revenue that Sprewell could feed his family.
Ads on the unis will make the Euros feel right at home. All soccer teams except for Barcelona have ads on their jerseys.
Advertising on NBA is among the dumbest ideas I've heard in awhile. Unfortunately, the trademarked color and shape of a logo are what makes it recognizable. I don't think they'll do it the way you suggested.
But why stop w/ player uniforms? Why not the refs' unis as well? Why not the court itself and the backboard as well? Why not just put an ad ticker at the top & bottom of each backboard, sorta like Times Square?? Hey the same ticker can be placed right above the Men's Room urinals, too. Hell, why not just plaster up the dancers' asses with mini-billboards as well? That's surely an area of high rating viewership, so Stern would clean some major house on those ads. In retrospect, it is frighteningly clear that Stern could do so much more. He could squeeze oh so much more, and yet he hasn't. His inefficiency in generating new avenues of revenue/cheddar is disappointing, to say the least.
I don't think players should be forced to wear logos on their bodies and turn humans into walking brand machines. It's degrading. I mean, no athletic wears anything with a brand, not Tiger Woods, not famous Tennis Players, not even other guys....swoosh's, lines, and all that stuff is cool man. It's cool. It's not like they pay the athelite anything. And frankly, have you ever watched racing...you don't see them forcing freakin logos all over the car or helmets...no way.
What is so sad about Stern's demonstrated inefficiency in generating ad revenue is that he so obviously has not taken cues from his counterparts in the other major sports. I mean for years now, Nascar, Euroleagues, etc have employed the ads-on-players business model. And the games and performance have simply flourished as a result. Stern has obviously been most oblivious to the universally accepted and idiot-approved fact that if everyone else is doing it, then it most certainly must be if not smashingly brilliant, then at the least A-Okay. Maybe even AAA-Okay. Stern clearly needs to stay with the pack and follow the herd. He needs to get in where he fits in within the sports world and start conforming to the trusted principles and ideals of Maximum Asset Exploitation. His maverick ways are not exactly what Cuban is looking for.
This is just a terrible idea. There are advertisments everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE. Now they're thinking about putting them on the freak'n uniforms? Stern is such a jackass. We saw record lows in ratings last season, maybe even lower this season, we are facing a potential lockout, and now he is thinking about putting ads on jerseys to generate a couple more million?
