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David Kahn

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David Kahn has been general manager of the Indiana Pacers, president of the Minnesota Timberwolves, head of the Oregon Stadium Campaign for Major League Baseball and is currently teaching two courses on sports economics at New York University.

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NFL Ratings Slide Doesn't Mean We've Reached Peak Football

As professional and college games saturate the market, and millennials cut the cord, some drop-off should be expected. But the league is still in far better shape than its rivals.

October 27, 2016

October 27, 2016

OpinionDavid Kahn

NFL Ratings Slide Doesn't Mean We've Reached Peak Football

As professional and college games saturate the market, and millennials cut the cord, some drop-off should be expected. But the league is still in far better shape than its rivals.

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July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

OpinionDavid Kahn

How Zika Can Save the Olympics

Golfers and basketball stars are pulling out. Good. They never belonged.

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September 23, 2015

September 23, 2015

OpinionDavid Kahn

Team Tennis Needs Some March Madness

Bringing the dull Davis and Fed Cups into the Internet age.

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April 16, 2015

April 16, 2015

OpinionDavid Kahn

Playoffs Are for Winners

The NBA postseason should belong to winning teams, not losing ones, and every effort should be made to eliminate losing teams from being rewarded.

Not for everyone.

January 28, 2015

January 28, 2015

OpinionDavid Kahn

When Bigger Isn't Better in the NBA

A new arena is going to cost Wisconsin a lot of bucks.

January 14, 2015

January 14, 2015

OpinionDavid Kahn

NFL Can Follow the Money to London

The NFL is currently the only American sports league capable of pulling off overseas expansion. Here's why.

Oakland's Menelik Watson probably wouldn't mind playing at home.

January 12, 2015

January 12, 2015

OpinionDavid Kahn

NBA Can Follow Football's European Drive

The New York Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks are heading to London this week, sparking more talk of the NBA's potential expansion into Europe. It will never happen.

Why not in London?

November 16, 2014

November 16, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

Player-Owner War Isn't NBA's Real Problem

Michele Roberts’ provocative statements about the NBA’s salary-cap system could serve as a starting point to discuss how the league might operate under a new collective bargaining agreement -- and, more important, its new national television contract.

The Jazz can still pack the arena.

October 28, 2014

October 28, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

How to Keep the NBA on Schedule

Worth exploring are several game-shortening initiatives that could be immediately tested in the NBA's Development League -- moves that could fit a 48-minute contest more neatly into a 120- to 130-minute window.

Smart points.

October 22, 2014

October 22, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

LeBron Is Right: NBA Season Is Too Long

Nothing in sports ever shrinks. Sports only expands.

Hey, you getting tired of this?

September 7, 2014

September 7, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

Kids Who Quit Football Won't Quit the NFL

There are 30 million 'avid' female NFL fans. And none of them played a down of Pop Warner.

Snoop says footbizzle is dunkadelic.

August 13, 2014

August 13, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

College Sports Has a 1 Percent Problem

The vast majority of the 85 scholarship football players and 13 basketball players at each Power Five school are not "value creators."

OK, he's a value creator.

July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

World Cup Won't Make U.S. Soccer Popular

The World Cup will reduce the remainder of the MLS season to something like to the NFL Pro Bowl when it’s played the week after the Super Bowl.

The celebration won't last.

June 26, 2014

June 26, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

NBA's Teenagers Should Go to the Minors

Four of the first five picks of tonight's NBA Draft are almost certain to be "one-and-dones." Most are not ready for the pros.

Joel Embiid is big. Is he ready for the Big Time?

June 3, 2014

June 3, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

Ballmer Is a Win for the NBA

For $2 billion,the 58-year-old Ballmer hasn’t just bought a team. He has purchased a lifestyle.

Steve Ballmer's new day job. Ballmer and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver at an Oklahoma City Thunder-Los Angeles Clippers playoff game.

May 8, 2014

May 8, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

Racism Pays: Clippers Can Fetch $2 Billion

The National Basketball Association will soon be offering its owners a foolproof business model, similar to that enjoyed by the National Football League.

Blake and CP3, smiling because they'll have a new boss next season? Photographer: Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images

March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014

OpinionDavid Kahn

Save Baseball: Start Fall Classic in July

How to make baseball truly national again? One solution would be a split-season playoff system, with baseball moving a postseason round from October to July, when no other sport matters.

Hope springs eternal on Opening Day, hope that come fall no one will be watching football. Photographer: Denis Poroy/Getty Images