Preventing Continued Exploitation of Black Communities and the Future Exploitation of the Chinese by the NBA.

-The Chinese government should charge each of the NBA team owners 1 billion dollars each to show games in China. The NBA teams are now worth over one billion dollars each due to insane deals with TNT/ABC and other network providers, with Sprint, with Anheuser-Bush beer, with Pepsi-Cola and with Nike in January of 2016. Part of this huge increase (up 74%) is due to expectations in the Chinese marketplace. These deals are worth over 1 billion dollars per year!!!
-However the product they are selling are Black players from Black communities and Black consumers. WE are what makes the game “cool”. The Black community is also a major source of income in terms of consumer dollars.
-The NBA owners have profited enormously from Black communities without any return to our communities. Los Angeles is a perfect example. Indeed, they have not been loyal (remember the move from Inglewood to Downtown Los Angeles?). The Los Angeles Lakers are now the second most valuable team at over 2 billion dollars and the Los Angeles Clippers are valued at 2 billion dollars. The surrounding Los Angeles market, which includes the Black communities, is a major factor to the appeal of these teams to sponsors. Unfortunately the NBA (the NBA approves approved the moves), with its prior developer team owners (Sterling was the Clippers’ owner when the Staples’ Center opened along with Buss- his friend who helped him get into the NBA and owned the Lakers) and current owners, and their corporate/developer friends used/are using their influence to exploit the local Black communities and make billions from these communities. The ban on Sterling had has not changed any of the development plans.
-Los Angeles’ Black communities are facing redevelopment and relocation at an alarming rate, continuing a development cycle that has relocated Blacks in Washington D.C., New York, Brooklyn, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, the Los Angeles metro area/west coast, and other areas. Inglewood, CA is next. Inglewood and the adjacent Black communities are following the same pattern of development along metro lines as downtown Los Angeles, with centerpiece stadiums being developed by the NBA and NFL and the development of following residential/commercial projects. The Staples’ Center and the NBA were and are the centerpiece of the new downtown, LA Live Complex and expanding development since 1998! The opening of the Staples’ Center began the development rush in downtown Los Angeles, and was marketed as such. The move appears to have been part of a larger development plan to “renew” downtown, and not just about box seats. Yet Inglewood and the Black communities endured property devaluation and eventual relocation. Downtown Los Angeles is now one of the most expensive areas with a new demographic. This development is pushing from downtown south and west along Exposition Blvd into the heart of the Black neighborhoods, and east/north into east L.A. and Boyle Heights. New residential projects have been approved by Los Angeles city council that are located just blocks from the historic Black core.