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Paul Sladkus, Person of the Year Award for Distinguished Community Service U.S., bestowed by Baruch Wall Street Club

Austin Tang — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:57:15 +0000

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Baruch Wall Street Club cordially invites students and alumni to a festive celebration

and Networking Event with Senior Professionals from Finance, Technology and Consulting on

Tuesday December 16th 2025

at The Throwback

Sports Bar & Restaurant

701 Amsterdam Avenue

(btw 94/95 St)

New York, NY 10025

Start: 630pm

End: 830pm

Event Director & Faculty Advisor Professor

Jason Shela MBE FRSA MA

will speak on the subject of

Navigating Finance & Consulting Careers and Social Responsibility.

We are grateful to our distinguished guest speakers and mentors.

Dr. Casey Gafry

Technology Director

Lazard Asset Management

Andrew Danzig

VP Federal Reserve Bank of

New York

Michael Last

Principal, Copernican Consulting

Jeffrey Valenty

Managing Partner,

Fortuna Capital

Oliver Olah

Partner, DLA Piper

Lauren Elliot

Partner, Seiden Law

Cynthia Schwartz

MD Marex

David Quarmby

CEO Marco International

Richard Linhart

Managing Director

Morgan Stanley

Person of the Year Award for

Distinguished Community Service

USA

Paul Sladkus

Good News Broadcast

Shaun Sherrick

Founder Barnet WFC

Live Music will follow the presentations and networking.

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Who Really Invented Basketball? The ‘Human Calculator’ Thinks He Knows.

Austin Tang — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:18:57 +0000

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

Just off the too-quiet Main Street in the upstate New York town of Herkimer, a man sat in a booth at Crazy Otto’s Empire Diner, making his case. Between bites of two eggs, three pancakes and a ham slice the size of a paperback, he politely defied accepted American lore.His case goes like this: Basketball was invented not by Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, Mass., in 1891, as everyone is taught, but by a Herkimer teenager who came up with the idea first, about a year earlier, while tossing heads of cabbage into a basket.

Before you say, “Check, please,” know that this stocky, white-haired heretic isn’t some random Herkimer eccentric; he is the Human Calculator, also known as Scott Flansburg, who has astonished people around the world with his ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide vast numbers with finger-snap speed. He may be the most notable Herkimer native since the Herkimer Hurricane himself, Lou Ambers, world lightweight boxing champion of the 1930s.

But Mr. Flansburg has set aside his wizardry to champion what he argues is his hometown’s rightful place in sports history, and he says he has receipts — well, some receipts. He has assembled a group of local leaders and created the nonprofit Herkimer 9 Foundation, dedicated to an admittedly improbable pursuit: to revitalize this town with a basketball-related museum, a basketball-related events center and even a pavilion topped with the world’s largest basketball.

“Basketball was invented on our Main Street,” Mr. Flansburg, 61, said, nodding toward the nearby avenue where there’s a lot not happening.

The Herkimer origin story has sat on the far end of history’s bench since at least the early 1950s. It has brought pride to a swath of Central New York but exasperation to, among other places, Springfield, home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

When asked if someone at the Hall of Fame might discuss the Herkimer case, its curator and historian, Matt Zeysing, responded with an emailed, “No comment.” When asked if someone else might be available, Mr. Zeysing wrote, “That is the official statement at this time.”

Herkimer, located pretty much at the center of New York State, seems far removed from the multi-billion-dollar industry of professional basketball; it seems far removed, period. But the town is no different than any other community warding against time’s erasure of memory.

Herkimer has had its moments. The murder trial that inspired the Theodore Dreiser novel “An American Tragedy” took place in the old courthouse in 1906. The last woman to be hanged in New York met her fate behind the old jail in 1887.

And at some point in the 1970s, in one of its schools, closed and derelict now, a 9-year-old Scott Flansburg realized he could process numbers at breathtaking speed.

After serving in the Air Force, he began a career as a mathematical savant. Before long, the television personality Regis Philbin had nicknamed him “The Human Calculator.”

Mr. Flansburg, who tends to ask your birth date and then immediately tell you the day of the week you were born, appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”; was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records; published a best-selling math book; traveled extensively as a Pied Piper of numeracy. He settled in exclusive Paradise Valley, just outside Phoenix, and lowered his golf handicap. Life was good.

In 2019, with his father dying, he returned to a diminished Herkimer. Seeking consolation in the Herkimer County Historical Society, he asked to be told something surprising and a volunteer in his 80s said:

Well, how about that basketball began here in Herkimer?

The mere suggestion is basketball apostasy. The official story holds that Dr. Naismith was a young instructor at the International Y.M.C.A. Training School, which later became Springfield College. Assigned to create an engaging indoor activity that provided safe exercise, he came up with a game involving a soccer ball, two peach baskets and a set of 13 rules that he had typed up and tacked to a bulletin board in the gymnasium on Dec. 21, 1891.

But Dr. Naismith wasn’t first, said the volunteer, who directed Mr. Flansburg to a little-known book from 1952 called “I Grew Up With Basketball” by Frank J. Basloe, a Herkimer notable who had managed barnstorming basketball teams in the early 1900s. Mr. Basloe told the story of Lambert Will, the teenage director of the town’s new Y.M.C.A., who was said to have thought up basketball while throwing cabbages into a bushel basket at Ausman’s General Store on Main Street. This was in late 1890, a full year before Naismith was said to have posted the 13 rules.

The first-ever basketball game, Mr. Basloe wrote, was played between the Herkimer Y.M.C.A. 9 and the Herkimer Businessmen 9 on Feb. 7, 1891. A second match, against a team from nearby Little Falls, was played two weeks later. His book includes a photograph of the original Herkimer 9 team, including Mr. Will. One player is holding a ball on which someone has written “91-92” — as in 1891-92 — though it is unclear when that date was added.

Mr. Flansburg’s initial response: Nonsense. “It seemed like an easy thing to negate,” he said.

After his father’s death, Mr. Flansburg went back to his Arizona paradise, only to return to Herkimer in 2020 when Covid restrictions canceled his mathematics roadshow. He decided to dig in and disprove.

Burrowing into the historical society’s dusty corners, among copies of long-gone newspapers (The Mohawk Courier, The Ilion Citizen) and evocative artifacts (the trombone used by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shaul in the 1920s, the high-wheeled bicycle that George Nellis rode to San Francisco in 1887), he found some corroboration in Mr. Basloe’s book, including the locations of the market, still standing, and the Y.M.C.A. building, now a parking lot.

Intrigued, Mr. Flansburg put on a mask and visited the archives of libraries and historical societies across the region. He came away convinced that, at the very least, Central New York — and Herkimer in particular — had been pivotal in basketball’s early evolution (a claim also made by Holyoke, Mass.).

“Something was up,” he said

He tracked down two historians, the brothers George and Darril Fosty, who had written a very brief article about the Herkimer angle in 2010. “We just got ridiculed,” George Fosty recalled. “People just thought we were nuts.”

Or worse.

A few months after the Fostys published their squib online, a wealthy alumnus of the University of Kansas, where Dr. Naismith coached and taught for most of his career, paid $4.3 million for the 13 original rules after the document was put up for auction by the doctor’s grandson, Ian Naismith. (The document, regarded as basketball’s sacred scripture, is now enshrined at the university.)

The Kansas City Star described the grandson at the time as being sick of hearing about Mr. Will. “I want Herkimer out of my life,” he said, before getting really mad.

“I’m ready to kick some ass,” Ian Naismith, who died two years later at 72, was quoted, precisely, as shouting. “I will hurt somebody. Whoever says it can face me, and I’m 260 pounds.”

George Fosty, who weighed about 300 pounds at the time, was not concerned. Still, he and his brother set aside the project until being contacted a dozen years later by a man calling himself the Human Calculator. Soon they were delving deeper into the past with Mr. Flansburg and another Herkimer native, Brion Carroll.

In 2022, the Fosty brothers, with Mr. Carroll, published a book with a flagrant foul of a title: “Nais-MYTH: Basketball’s Stolen Legacy.” It combines circumstantial evidence and what Mr. Carroll called “if this, then that” logic to upend the game’s origin story.

The book recounts Lambert Will’s late-life recollection that in 1890, the Springfield Y asked the greater Y.M.C.A. network for suggestions of new indoor athletic endeavors. He sent in his thoughts, which included the rudimentary rules for what became basketball, but he never heard back. And so, the story goes, Mr. Will arranged for his new game to be played in Herkimer, with two teams of nine men.

The book points to a Utica Daily Press article from 1898 that said Herkimer had a basketball team in 1891. It refers to a Herkimer Evening Times article from 1940, about a 50th anniversary basketball reunion, that said basketball began in the Mohawk Valley “at the Herkimer Y.M.C.A. in the fall of 1890.” It names a man who, in later years, had said he witnessed the first game at the Herkimer Y, and had produced his 1891 Y.M.C.A. membership card as proof.

It raises questions about Dr. Naismith’s shifting accounts of the game’s development, as well as his other odd claims, like eating rabbit could make someone run faster, or that he had invented a stretching machine to make people taller, or that he had invented the hair dryer.

The book also notes a curious detail about the 13 original rules, now displayed at the University of Kansas. A handwritten date at the bottom of the document, “Feb. 1892,” has clearly been erased and replaced with “Dec. 1891” — a date that would better align with the official Naismith narrative.

Dr. Naismith is believed to have changed the date when he signed the document at the behest of one of his sons, in 1931. But a University of Kansas website and the 1996 reprint of Dr. Naismith’s book, “Basketball: Its Origin and Development,” include an image of the document bearing the original February 1892 date.

But, but, but. As with Mr. Basloe long ago, Mr. Flansburg and his team have found no smoking-gun document. No news clippings of games played in 1891, no Y.M.C.A. documents, no correspondence. Some records, in fact, are missing, leading to mutters of a conspiracy.

“It’s like a special ops preceded us,” Mr. Carroll said.

What they do have is the recollection of Mr. Will, who served in the Spanish-American War, volunteered as a firefighter for more than 60 years and ran a printing business. He joined Mr. Basloe in the 1950s in a protracted campaign to have the Basketball Hall of Fame located in Herkimer (1950 population: 9,400) — only to lose out to Springfield (1950 population: 162,000) — and died the day before his 88th birthday in 1964.

“All I know is that I played my first basketball with a head of cabbage in 1890 and played the first game on my mother’s birthday, Feb. 7, 1891, after I had made up enough rules for a game,” he once said. “I am not looking for any glory for what I did for basketball, which I am thankful to think a head of cabbage gave so many people and myself a great deal of pleasure.”

Another day at Crazy Otto’s Empire Diner, Mr. Flansburg sat with one of Mr. Will’s grandsons, Dennis Will. He is 66, with a long gray beard.

Though his memories of his grandfather are faint, he clearly remembers joining two dozen Will relatives on a 1994 trip to Springfield, where the Basketball Hall of Fame held a small celebration of Mr. Will centered on a display of a few mementos borrowed from the family. It was a private videotaped affair, no press, that lasted less than a half-hour.

The display quickly disappeared, and Mr. Will said that the mementos have never been returned to the family, despite repeated requests. The moment seemed to define the decades-long struggle, and Mr. Will choked up in a booth at Crazy Otto’s.

“Credit where credit’s due,” he said, with reddened eyes.

Mr. Flansburg escorted Mr. Will and his wife, Laurie Will, along Main Street, its sun-baked emptiness interrupted by an old bar here, a new restaurant there. They paused in front of the once-grand but long-shuttered building where Lambert Will threw cabbages into a barrel.

The Human Calculator talked of Herkimer: what was, what is, and what, maybe, could be. He talked like every sports fan who ever was, knowing the odds but rooting still for the long shot.

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Ari Ackerman is a successful serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, sports team owner, and powerful social media influencer.

Austin Tang — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:57:47 +0000

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Ari Ackerman is a successful serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, sports team owner, and powerful social media influencer. His entrepreneurial history includes being the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the very popular tech company Bunk1.com. Ari has been featured in dozens of media outlets including CNN, the Today Show, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Ari received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and an MBA with honors from Kellogg. His philanthropic endeavors included serving on multiple boards such as the JCRC, Hillel, UJA, JFNA and was the NYL Cabinet Co-chair for the Jewish Federations of North America. Notably, Ari has been honored by AIPAC, JCRC, Hampton Synagogue as “Father of the Year”, and was recently awarded the Beyond Duke Service and Leadership award from Duke University. For Baseball fans, he is also a partner and board member in the Derek Jeter led group that purchased the Miami Marlins in 2017.

#ariacker #ariackerman

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK AND JERSEY MIKE’S TEAM UP FOR TODAY’S DAY OF GIVING

Austin Tang — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:36:15 +0000

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Media Contact: Casey Vattimo, 518-470-9909, cvattimo@nyso.org

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK AND JERSEY MIKE’S TEAM UP FOR
TODAY’S DAY OF GIVING

100% of Day’s Proceeds at Participating Locations to Benefit Local Athletes

New York, NY – Special Olympics New York is pleased to announce that 41 Jersey Mike’s Subs locations around the state will participate in today’s Day of Giving campaign. Participating restaurants will donate 100 percent of the day’s sales to the athletes of Special Olympics New York.

“Jersey Mike’s is a true champion of champions. Every dollar spent at partner locations today will help change lives for people with intellectual differences,” said Special Olympics New York President & CEO Stacey Hengsterman. “Our athletes, families, and supporters look forward to celebrating inclusion on this special day.”

Please find a list of participating locations in the Central, New York City, Long Island, and Genesee Regions at this link. Members of the media are cordially invited to attend.

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About Special Olympics New York

Special Olympics New York is the largest state chapter in the country, serving more than 42,000 athletes across New York with year-round sports training, athletic competition, and health screenings. The organization also partners with more than 200 schools statewide to offer Unified Sports, where students with and without disabilities compete as teammates. All Special Olympics New York programs are offered at no cost to athletes, their families or caregivers. The organization has earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar.com, making it one of the most trusted charities in the business nationally. For additional information about Special Olympics New York, to learn more about getting involved, or to make a donation, visit www.specialolympicsNY.org.

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5 Gadgets To Invest In If You’re Serious About Golfing

Austin Tang — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:36:54 +0000

Like other hobbies and sports out there, playing golf can be engaging and addictive. The game promotes a physically fit body, enhances problem-solving skills, and encourages a healthy lifestyle. You can never go wrong with golf as your new sport.

However, golf also comes with several considerable investments players should indulge in. If you have just started feeling the golf club and plan to enjoy this game for a long time, you might want to check out some of the incredible gadgets that would accompany you through this new sports journey.

Rangefinder

This device is an easy and effective way to locate distant objects on the comprehensive golf course. This portable gadget that you can effortlessly carry around the fairway is accurate and precise in its measurements.

Using this will cut off a significant amount of time and save your energy by looking through yardage books and additional math games. A rangefinder also utilizes laser technology to determine distances and magnifiers for clearer sight on far reaches.

Golf Simulator

This equipment is a very innovative and helpful way to experience golf. Anyone can easily set it up inside the house. You can conveniently play golf using simulators with your family and friends without thinking about the condition of the weather outside.

The better choice for a golf simulator is the one by SkyTrak. This device comes with many features such as performance metrics, thousands of golf courses, video support, and many other helpful tasks. It has a pro-feel to it as it accurately gives your swing speed, launch angle, ball speed, among others. Its simulation is also at high-definition graphics for more immersive virtual gaming.

GPS Watch

GPS tracking watches are easy and interactive tools that will help you navigate golf courses. Many GPS watches specifically made for golfers have thousands of golf courses preloaded in the device’s operating system. This way, the maps are stress-free and convenient to use. As a handy device, some also have features that can record scores, so you don’t need to memorize them.

Swing Trainer

Having a proper swing is vital as it makes a good hit and prevents any accidents that can affect you and other people. Swing trainers mainly help in the improvement of your swing performance. This trainer will improve your grip and wrist positions, making handling easier to enhance the hit itself. It can also develop a constant swing speed to learn your swing tempo.

Fitness Watch

A fitness watch is not inherently only for golf players, but this is a very helpful gadget to have while playing.

These wearables serve as your monitor to keep your health in check. It comes with important measurements such as blood pressure, pulse rate, and oxygen level. The wristband, however, should be strong enough for harsh environments.

Final Words

Golf was once a hobby for the rich, with all the fancy fairways established in many high-end places. However, one can now enjoy this sport and even make a career out of it by investing in one-time equipment. So if you’re dead serious about breaking through the golfing realm’s A-list, the above are some of the tools to consider greatly.

#golf #invest #club #course #sports #gadgets #range #gps #watch #fitness #swing #trainer #final #words #skytrak #speed #angle #ball #golfer #position #hit #players #tempo #environments #tools

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Rob Davidson – Life Waters CEO, share his Good News

Austin Tang — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:44:19 +0000

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Work Experience and Product Development:
Robert Davidson is Life Waters CEO and Member of the Board of Directors for Cure Pharmaceutical, Rob sits on the board of the Hemp Industries Association the oldest non profit organization representing Hemp as an agricultural crop. Prior to his role at CURE Pharmaceutical, Robert Davidson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Innozen Inc., Chief Executive Officer of Gel Tech LLC, Chief Executive Officer of Bio Delivery Technologies Inc., and has served on multiple corporate boards. Davidson was responsible for the development of several drug delivery technologies and commercial brand extensions. He has worked with brands such as Chloraseptic, Suppress, as well as Pediastrip, Solves a private label electrolyte oral thin film sold in major drug store chains.
Education:
Davidson received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences. He has a Masters Certificate in Applied Project Management from Villanova University, Masters of Public Health from and a Masters in Health and Wellness from Liberty University, Virginia. He attended Post Graduate Studies and earned a Masters in Sustainability Leadership from The University of Cambridge, UK. Davidson is also a Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist and Fitness Nutrition Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Rob spent several years working and volunteering in third world countries where he attended doctorate studies in Public Health, Concentrating on Tropical Diseases at Central University of Nicaragua. Itis there where he collaborated in a health education program to promote the prevention of Cholera in Haiti.
Consulting:
Has consulted for several fitness companies such as Malibu Pilates, Power Pilates and Ab-Cycle as well as non profit Companies such as Operation Underground to fight sex trafficking.
Patents and Publications
Rob has seven patents on drug delivery systems as well as multiple patent spending. He has also been awarded a patent for the design of a proprietary exercise device. Rob also has seven scientific publications.

#rob #davidson #life #waters #cure #pharmaceutical #hemp #pediastrip #chloraseptic #drug #health #wellness #haiti #fitness #cambridge #sports #medicine #pilates #trafficking #sex

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What is your excuse ?

Austin Tang — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:59:35 +0000

You can do it, never give up.

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Rob Davidson, LifeWaters… Interview to be posted shortly

Austin Tang — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:27:24 +0000

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Work Experience and Product Development:
Robert Davidson is LifeWaters CEO and Member of the Board of Directors for Cure Pharmaceutical, Rob sits on the board of the Hemp Industries Association the oldest non profit organization representing Hemp as an agricultural crop. Prior to his role at CURE Pharmaceutical, Robert Davidson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Innozen Inc., Chief Executive Officer of Gel Tech LLC, Chief Executive Officer of Bio Delivery Technologies Inc., and has served on multiple corporate boards. Davidson was responsible for the development of several drug delivery technologies and commercial brand extensions. He has worked with brands such as Chloraseptic, Suppress,as well as Pediastrip, Solves a private label electrolyte oral thin film sold in major drug store chains.

Education:
Davidson received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences. He has a Masters Certificate in Applied Project Management from Villanova University, Masters of Public Health from and a Masters in Health and Wellness from Liberty University, Virginia. He attended Post Graduate Studies and earned a Masters in Sustainability Leadership from The University of Cambridge, UK. Davidson is also a Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist and Fitness Nutrition Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Rob spent several years working and volunteering in third world countries where he attended doctorate studies in Public Health, Concentrating on Tropical Diseases at Central University of Nicaragua. It is there where he collaborated in a health education program to promote the prevention of Cholera in Haiti.

Consulting:
Has consulted for several fitness companies such as Malibu Pilates, Power Pilates and Ab-Cycle as well as non profit Companies such as Operation Underground to fight sex trafficking.

#rob #davidson #lifewaters #cure #pharmaceutical #hemp #agricultural #fitness #nutrition #health #wellness #sports #medicine #diseases #education #pilates #abs #sex #trafficking #drugs

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Judy D. Olian, PhD, president of Quinnipiac University speaks to Paul Sladkus, ’72 Quinnipiac Graduate

Austin Tang — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:59:31 +0000

Judy D. Olian, Ph.D., became president of Quinnipiac University in July 2018.

Prior to joining Quinnipiac University, she served as dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and John E. Anderson Chair in Management for 12.5 years. Under her leadership, UCLA Anderson hired a record number of faculty, expanded its prestigious Board of Visitors, and raised over $450 million for students and faculty support, innovative programming and capital improvements.

Prior to that, she was dean and professor of management at the Smeal College of Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University, and professor and senior associate dean at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Olian has also served as the chairman of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the premier business accrediting and management thought leadership organization in the world.

Widely published in journals on human resource management, top management team composition, and the business alignment of management systems, Olian wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column and hosted a monthly television show on current topics in business. She is a sought‐after speaker and has consulted for major corporations. Olian serves on, or has been a member of, various advisory boards including the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Peking University Business School’s International Advisory Board, the Connecticut Workforce Council, AdvanceCT, the Business-Higher Education Forum, New Haven Promise, and Catalyst, a leading global think tank for women in business. She was also chair of the Loeb Awards for Business Journalism.

Born and raised in Australia, Olian received her BS in psychology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and her MS and PhD in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She currently serves on the board of directors of Ares Management, L.P., a publicly-traded global alternative asset management firm; United Therapeutics, a publicly-traded advanced biotech company; and Mattel, a publicly-traded multinational toy manufacturing company.

#Weldon #Ullman #Ayers #Flanagan #ed McMath #sports #campus #polling #health #medicine #Quinnipiac #1929 #Commerce College #Married #Jazz Festival

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2021’s Best & Worst Cities for Basketball Fans – WalletHub Study

Austin Tang — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:51:15 +0000

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With the NBA playoffs kicking off on May 22 and the NBA recovering from a 50% revenue drop last year due to COVID-19, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2021’s Best & Worst Cities for Basketball Fans, as well as accompanying videos.

We speak to Jill Gonzalez of Water hub, Dr. Larry Gluck and Austin G.-S. Tang also share their thoughts. A Good News time was had by all.

To find the best cities for professional- and college-basketball fans, WalletHub compared more than 290 of the largest cities across 21 key metrics, ranging from the performance level of each city’s NBA and NCAA Division 1 basketball teams to ticket prices to stadium accessibility.

Best Cities for Basketball Fans
Worst Cities for Basketball Fans
1. Los Angeles, CA
283. Santa Clara, CA
2. Boston, MA
284. Berkeley, CA
3. Salt Lake City, UT
285. Evansville, IN
4. Philadelphia, PA
286. Wilmington, NC
5. San Francisco, CA
287. Daytona Beach, FL
6. Miami, FL
288. New Britain, CT
7. San Antonio, TX
289. Montgomery, AL
8. Houston, TX
290. Pocatello, ID
9. Washington, DC
291. St. George, UT
10. Oklahoma City, OK
292. Stephenville, TX

Best vs. Worst

Charlotte, North Carolina, has the lowest average ticket price for an NBA game, $32.05, which is 3.9 times less expensive than in San Francisco, the city with the highest at $125.43.

The Houston Rockets have the highest performance level among NBA teams, 68.34 percent, which is 2.3 times better than that of the New York Knicks, the team with the lowest at 29.31 percent.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs have the highest performance level among college basketball teams, 89.87 percent, which is 8.3 times better than that of the Chicago State Cougars, the team with the lowest at 10.85 percent.

Miami has the highest fan engagement for NBA teams, 43.40, which is 30.6 times higher than in New York, the city with the lowest at 1.42.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-for-basketball-fans/11034 (https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-for-basketball-fans/11034)

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-for-basketball-fans/11034

#best #worst #fans #basketball #cities #sports #football #covid #pandemic #nba #uniforms #teams #revenues #traditions #stadiums #tickets #costs #college #ncaa #winners

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