Rome's professional basketball team Virtus Bologna has offered a multi-million dollar one-game contract to get the NBA's greater star, Kobe Bryant, to play a tribute game in his own honor.
The deal implies many things when it comes to both the future of the Lakers star and the NBA as a whole.
Long known as the game's greatest stage and platform for players to both join the entertainment world and model their blacktop skills, the NBA seemingly is losing its footing from the Macro sense of things.
Multiple trends are engaging this proposition, evolving the professional experience for the American and international hoops star, and recreating the overall experience of professional basketball.
A league that long held its world grandeur by dangling mega guaranteed contracts, ultimately shot itself in the foot, endorsing poor...
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