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10-07-2011, 02:01 PM
By Henry Abbott
ESPN.com
Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes does a lot of the work behind the magazine's various sports rankings. Insiders howl about this or that fine point whenever any outsider values sports franchises, and these transactions may be too complicated for outsiders to track accurately. But for the record, Badenhausen cites data that Jordan Brand shoes have a near-monopoly on the basketball shoe market (excluding Nike, just the Jordan brand has nearly 24 times more sales than adidas, reportedly).
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/32354/forbes-bobcats-can-make-mj-very-wealthy
ESPN.com
Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes does a lot of the work behind the magazine's various sports rankings. Insiders howl about this or that fine point whenever any outsider values sports franchises, and these transactions may be too complicated for outsiders to track accurately. But for the record, Badenhausen cites data that Jordan Brand shoes have a near-monopoly on the basketball shoe market (excluding Nike, just the Jordan brand has nearly 24 times more sales than adidas, reportedly).
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/32354/forbes-bobcats-can-make-mj-very-wealthy