The sponsors fled for a day or two. Adidas is back already, I think. Anyway isn’t most of the money from TV revenue?
Freegards
NBA isn’t like the NFL, they get good money from TV, but not nearly as high a percentage, they could never function on just TV like the NFL could. And the TV networks get the money to pay the NBA by selling ads, without sponsors ratings mean nothing. One way or the other it’s bad press and nobody want the lead off story for every sports talk show being about how bad a person one of your owners is.