"Inside the NBA didn’t just cover basketball. It changed what sports television could be. And sometimes the best way to preserve a legacy is to know when you’ve reached the final buzzer."
The question isn't whether SiriusXM has tried to diversify. Clearly, it has. The question is whether that effort has gone far enough to change the numbers when a star as big as Stern begins to start talking about life after SiriusXM.
"NBC had the Super Bowl in the middle of the Olympics. Then had the NBA All Star game in the middle of the Olympics. But they’re not going to stop having the Olympics. They still want their Olympics prime time, so they moved everything up."
"If sports radio truly believes its hosts are the most trusted voices in the market, then the time has come to prove it — not after the game, not the next morning, but live, in the moment, as part of the experience itself."
"This is what you're making a year, and with three years left on your deal you'll have to give up this money in order to run for office.' Do I look like a person that's interested in doing that? Hell no."
"Inside the NBA didn’t just cover basketball. It changed what sports television could be. And sometimes the best way to preserve a legacy is to know when you’ve reached the final buzzer."
The question isn't whether SiriusXM has tried to diversify. Clearly, it has. The question is whether that effort has gone far enough to change the numbers when a star as big as Stern begins to start talking about life after SiriusXM.
"I don’t want to be like anyone, because I’ve always wanted to be myself. Everything I’m doing now I literally said I would do. If I put my mind to it and set it in stone, then there’s a great chance it’s going to happen."