Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.

+ The NBA’s All-Glue Team. {The Hoop Doctors.}

+ Duke slowly wading into murky recruiting waters. {The Dagger.}

+ Hasheem Thabeet throws a barbeque. {The Blowtorch.}

+ What’s left in Sheed’s tank? {Basketball-Reference.}

+ Paul McCartney dedicates “Michelle” to the first lady. {MSNBC.} Microsoft’s long, slow decline. {Daring Fireball.}

Quotable:

“Reportedly half of the NBA’s teams lost money last year. In that environment, there are real hard-and-fast limits on how much anyone can ask owners to invest in long-term goals like the economic diversification of the in-arena audience.

There’s precious little anyone could do to make most owners relax about the short-term outlook for their teams. But giving them a new and meaningful revenue stream would be a powerful step in the right direction.

Uniform placement would get a sponsor into every sports section and highlight reel every day. It’s a mammoth opportunity, perhaps the most valuable thing that could be sponsored in the NBA. The income to the teams would be non-trivial.

A new influx of cash may not lead to any more cheap seats. But it could not hurt, and if there is still the will around the NBA to get many different people into games, found money is probably the surely the biggest obstacle to overcome. This would give more owners more leeway to consider the concerns of the ‘let’s figure out this long-term issue’ crowd.” – Henry Abbott