While in camp with the Pacers, I still kept a journal of my experience, took pictures during our...

While in camp with the Pacers, I still kept a journal of my experience, took pictures during our trips and used my personal gift from David Stern (a Flip camera that everyone got) to record plenty of video.

BDL's Too Much Rod Benson column is back up now that Rod Benson is back in the D-League, but even more than his talking about training camp or the video of him in China and Taiwan with the Pacers, the line above stuck out to me, for two reasons:

1.) The NBA was figuring out its social media policy, and ended up cracking down somewhat, at the same time it was handing out cameras for guys to take pictures and record video, theoretically to post online? Is that not a mixed message?

2.) Those phones may themselves have been "donated" from the company, but if the league paid for them, couldn't that money have gone towards narrowing the gap in what the refs wanted and what the league wanted to give them? I know the impasse was about more than just money, but for the league to be handing out cameras at the same time it's calling for fiscal prudence on some level strikes me as, again, a mixed message.

Or am I making too much of this?

10 days ago Jon L 4 comments 0 recs |

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I would think...

that all the swag the players got was from sponsors. Kind of like they do in college when the teams go to bowls. But, this is just an assumption.

by rickpidero on Nov 11, 2009 3:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

yeah i doubt it was really paid for by the league

but that is a good point if Rod is right

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Vonnegut

by Ice_9ine on Nov 12, 2009 7:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Rod tweeted me only the players that went to China got the Flip cameras, not as I and maybe Jon had assumed all

But slowly things happen that they cannot help and the Blazers Fellowship of the Ring begins to break apart

by Norsktroll on Nov 13, 2009 2:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I thought it might be only the guys who went to China and those who went to London

and I also assume (hope, I guess?) that the cameras were provided gratis by the company/sponsor, but it seems seems like a mixed message to tell guys “there are only certain times when we want you posting on Twitter and Facebook” at the same time they say “here are some free cameras, go nuts.”

Ridiculous Upside, where developing talent and winning are not mutually exclusive.

by Jon L on Nov 13, 2009 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs