Michael Jordan Tribute Video

Here’s a great Michael Jordan Tribute video.  Michael Jordan is now a NBA executive and minority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.  He will soon become the first basketball player to own a NBA team.  Will he succeed?  I hope so.  Do you think he takes the job as serious as a NBA Playoff game?  I just can’t help but question his work ethic as an executive and owner.  The game is about to begin.
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Michael Jordan Tribute video on Ball Nation.

Peak Sport Deal with NBA

Peak Sport, a well-known branded sport products company in China, held a grand ceremony on January 21, 2010 in Beijing to announce the kick off of “Peak – NBA Youth Basketball Development Plan”, which aims to cultivate reserve forces for the China basketball industry and further promote its development.

“Peak – NBA Youth Basketball Development Plan” is a large-scale nationwide basketball promotion campaign jointly launched by Peak Sport and NBA. “Peak NBA 5 on 5 Basketball Tournament” will be the highlight of the Project. The targeted participants of the tournament are the young basketball enthusiasts aged between 18 and 24.

Basketball games will be held in 12 major cities all over the country including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Shenyang, Chengdu, Chongqing and Qingdao. The winning team from each city will join a comprehensive NBA training camp conducted by athletes and coaches from NBA, NBDL and WNBA, and will undergo a series of professional basketball training. During the training, the participants will have a chance to play in courts with NBA stars Jason Kidd and Ron Artest. All the winning teams will compete in the National Final and the champion will visit the US, watching the home matches of the Lakers team and the team’s pre-match training. The visit will provide a great opportunity for the participants to learn the world-class techniques from the NBA stars. They may even have a chance to have dinner with Ron Artest.

With respect to the kick off of “Peak – NBA Youth Basketball Development Plan”, Mr. XU Zhihua, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Peak Sport, said: “We have been contributing our effort to the development of the basketball industry for the Chinese youth for years. However, as the events held in the past were not systematic and inter-related to each other, the promotional effect might not be maximized. The launching of “Peak – NBA Youth Basketball Development Plan” is an important development strategy of Peak Sport, which consolidates the Company’s basketball promotional activities into a planned and systematic long term development project, and it also helps raise the standard of the China basketball industry to an international level.”

Mr. Xu considered that apart from being a social responsibility which a branded sport products company should take in the fast-growing economy of China, the project also helps enhance the exchange of basketball culture between China and the overseas. Meanwhile, the project is a long term strategy to enable Peak Sport to maintain its unique positioning in the China professional sport products market, to boost its brand recognition, and to increase its market share.

FSV Acqures HoopsHype Basketball Website

Fantasy Sports Ventures (FSV), the parent company of the FantasyPlayers.com Network, has acquired the premier independent basketball content site, HoopsHype.com, it was announced today by Fantasy Sports Ventures CEO Chris Russo.

FantasyPlayers.com network includes over 100 owned and affiliated websites.

HoopsHype.com, launched in 2002 by founder Jorge Sierra, is one of the most well respected and successful basketball content sites on the Web. It is widely read among basketball and streetball players, agents, coaches, executives and fans around the world. Columnists who regularly contribute to HoopsHype.com include former pro hoopsters Eddie Johnson and Dee Brown as well as prominent basketball scribe Sam Smith.

HoopsHype is an important addition to FantasyPlayers.com’s robust basketball channel which also includes HoopsWorld.com, Collegehoops.net, DraftExpress.com, HoopsKlyce.com, BasketballProspectus.com, EmptytheBench.com and many other leading independent basketball sites. In addition to basketball, the FantasyPlayers.com Network offers deep channels of sports specific content in pro & college football, baseball, auto racing, hockey and several other sports.

“HoopsHype’s unique mix of news, rumors, opinion and access will continue to provide FantasyPlayers.com users with the best independent basketball coverage available,” said Russo (who was formerly the Senior VP of New Media at the NFL). “Whether our readers are looking for the latest news, rumors, fantasy tips or draft analysis, our basketball channel gives fans everything they need in one place.”

“We are excited about the opportunities that FantasyPlayers.com brings to the evolution of HoopsHype,” Sierra said. “We look forward to adding resources like video and additional columnists for our readers.

The FantasyPlayers.com Network includes more than 100 fantasy sports and related web sites, delivering approximately 5 million unique users per months. These owned and affiliated sites provide high-quality fantasy news, information, analysis and game products across all major sports. As a part of the Network, affiliates receive a range of benefits, such as research, content, promotion, and monetization services. The primary goal of the Network is to provide affiliate sites with new revenue opportunities while enabling advertisers to reach the avid fantasy user through high impact marketing programs.

About Fantasy Sports Ventures (FSV)

Fantasy Sports Ventures is an integrated marketing and media company with two key business units: the FantasyPlayers.com Network, a dynamic fantasy sports portal featuring 100+ leading fantasy websites and FSV Advisors, the firm’s consulting practice leveraging the principals’ decades of collective experience in professional sports, new media and technology. www.fantasysportsventures.com

About HoopsHype.com

HoopsHype.com is the premier independent basketball source on the Web. Online since 2002, it is a must-read for pro basketball players, agents, coaches, executives and die-hard fans. You can visit the site at www.hoopshype.com.

Streetball.com Traffic and Alexa Ranking Continues its Staggering Pace

Streetball.com, launched in late 2007 has seen extraordinary growth in terms of website traffic, page views and its overall ranking. Site metrics are rumored to mimic the NBA.com’s traffic in terms of growth, content being searched and overseas traffic percentages. Traffic from China, with an estimated 350 million basketball and streetball players constitutes roughly 20% of Streetball.com’s overall traffic followed by the UK, Canada and Germany.

Streetball.com’s 7 day average alexa ranking compared to all other sites on the internet continues to outpreform many name brand basketball and hip-hop websites.

ComScore Report Analysis of Basketball Traffic to NBA Website

Demonstrating streetball and basketball’s worldwide audience is on the rise, internet research firm comScore reported that 54% of traffic to NBA.com in April 2007 came from overseas.

North America represented 46% of the basketball website’s visitors, the Asia Pacific region accounted for 36.6%, followed by Europe (11.7%), Latin America (3.5%) and the Middle East-Africa (2.1%).

China accounted for the most international visitors overall with 2.8 million.

Basketball Market Research reports that there are over 300 million people play basketball in China.

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