The NBA is the perfect sport for edutainment media wave. Massive pool of content to chop up (30 teams, 82 game season plus playoffs, cup etc.); big analytics landscape to spin narratives and wage battles over; league institutions are for player media empowerment; legacy media is pure hot take filth for the most part and people are pushed to look elsewhere for “in depth analysis”; sports gambling capital flowing in and enabling distributed analysis and commentary.

Doesn’t seem like any other sport has this potent a mix.

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what sort of products do you think are best fit for this next wave aside from sports gambling?

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I get so much value out of r/nba and Twitter especially since that’s where most of the drama discussion and memes are posted. Would be interesting if there was a way for the nba to try and monetize it

No idea tbh. Sports gambling seems like a weaponised version of social speculation and not sure how to displace it.

Perhaps consumer-ising prediction markets with a a social layer, normalising analyst/media prediction as a practice and mapping the two together somehow?