ESPN HS was a high school sports magazine published monthly during the school year in 25 markets around the United States. Founded as SchoolSports magazine in 1997, the publication changed its name to RISE in 2006 and was purchased by ESPN in January 2008. In 2011, the magazine's title was changed to ESPN HS .
28-531: The magazine ceased publication in September 2012 after ESPN decided to close its high school sports unit. Sensing the high school sports market was being undercovered by local newspapers and television stations, SchoolSports was founded in 1997 in the Greater Boston area. In addition to being one of the first publications dedicated to covering high school sports, SchoolSports also gave student-athletes
56-427: A class action antitrust lawsuit against the league, calling the lockout an illegal group boycott . The NBPA re-formed as a union on December 1, receiving support from over 300 players, exceeding the requirement for at least 260. After the players and owners reached a new agreement, the lockout ended on December 8 and the 2011–12 season began on December 25 with a 66-game schedule. In February 2013, Billy Hunter
84-413: A lockout immediately after the collective bargaining agreement expired. The primary sticking point within negotiations was the shares of Basketball Related income, player movement and the soft salary cap. Basketball Related Income or BRI is profits from ticket sales, merchandising sales, and other profits related to basketball, this revenue is split between players and the team but in initial negotiations
112-414: A lockout, that lasted from July 1 through September 12, when players and owners reached an agreement. Because the lockout took place during the off-season, no games were lost. The second NBA lockout, which ran into the 1998–99 season , lasted almost 200 days, and wiped out 464 regular-season games. After players and owners reached an agreement, the season did not start until February 5, 1999, with each of
140-597: A major professional sports union in North America. She would help avoid an opt-out labor dispute from occurring in 2017 with negotiations taking place early in 2016. In February 2018 at All-Star Weekend , the NBPA unveiled its new marketing and licensing arm, THINK450 , the innovation engine of the NBPA. The union controls the intellectual property rights of the 450 players as a group off the court, giving way for brand partnerships and sponsorship opportunities. After
168-537: A pension planner for an insurance company in his day job, and whose father was a union official in Union City, New Jersey . Heinsohn began negotiating a pension plan for players, asking $ 100 per month for five years of service and $ 200 per month for 10 years of service for players aged over 65. Negotiations stalled with new NBA President Walter Kennedy and the NBP and the league entered a stalemate for most of 1964. At
196-707: A playground director for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation . Rucker started a basketball tournament in 1950 in order to help less-fortunate kids stay off the streets and aim for college careers. The players in the Rucker Tournament featured slam dunks , crossover dribbles , and bravado that excited the crowd, a playing style then foreign to the National Basketball Association (NBA). In June 2017, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio dedicated
224-486: A spray shower. Rucker Park was featured in the TNT television film On Hallowed Ground: Streetball Champions of Rucker Park , which aired in 2000 and won a Sports Emmy Award . It was also featured in the 2018 film Uncle Drew . In 2022, Rucker Park became the first outdoor venue for The Basketball Tournament , a single-elimination winner-take-all tournament with a $ 1 million prize, acting as one of eight regional venues of
252-708: A voice by allowing them to submit articles for publication in the SchoolBeat section. The magazine's distribution model was also unique, as the publication was sent directly to area high schools free of charge. Over the next 10 years, the magazine expanded to 25 markets and was published in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Houston, Colorado, Arizona, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Central Florida, St. Louis, Minnesota, Oregon, San Antonio/Austin, Indiana and New Jersey. All told,
280-511: Is a basketball court at the border of Harlem and the Coogan's Bluff section of Washington Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan , at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard , just east of the former Polo Grounds site. It is geographically at the base of a large cliff named Coogan's Bluff . Many who have played at the park in the Entertainer's Basketball Classic (also known as
308-527: Is the labor union that represents National Basketball Association (NBA) players. It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada . However, the NBPA did not get recognition by NBA team owners until ten years later. Its offices are located in the historic Park and Tilford Building in New York City . It
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#1732801285936336-517: The 1964 NBA All-Star Game in Boston , Heinsohn organised a wildcat strike to force the NBA owners to recognise the union's demands. The game was to be the struggling NBA's first live television broadcast, and the league had to this point ignored the NBPA's demands delivered to league offices during the NBA off-season, and repeatedly refusing to meet with or acknowledge executive director Larry Fleisher as
364-468: The Rucker Tournament ) achieved a level of fame for their abilities, and several have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The park was established in 1956 next to PS 156; the school closed in 1981. The land that the park is on was once the site of the 8th Avenue Railroad Company. Since 1974, the park has been named after Holcombe Rucker , a local teacher and
392-453: The 29 NBA teams playing a 50-game schedule. The current collective bargaining agreement was reached in July 2005, and expired at 12:01 EST on July 1, 2011, following completion of the 2010–11 NBA season, resulting in a lockout , similar to the 2011 NFL lockout . ESPN has reported that the owners and players failed to reach an agreement and broke off negotiations, and that the owners began
420-504: The Year program. Beginning during the 2007–08 school year, RISE began publishing GIRL, a first-of-its-kind magazine dedicated solely to girls' high school athletics. Now- WNBA star Elena Delle Donne , then attending and playing for Ursuline Academy in Delaware , was the first cover subject of GIRL in the fall of 2007. Rucker Park Greg Marius Court at Holcombe Rucker Park
448-590: The competition. Although many professional basketball players have played at the court after gaining prominence, many others developed their basketball skills at Rucker prior to becoming notable in the sport. Notable players who have played at Rucker Park include: Other amateur players who made a name for themselves at Rucker but never played in the ABA or NBA included Earl Manigault , Joe Hammond and Pee Wee Kirkland . National Basketball Players Association The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA)
476-534: The court to Greg Marius, founder of the Entertainer's Basketball Classic streetball tournament held at the park. The park underwent $ 520,000 in renovations between August and October 2021, funded in part by the National Basketball Players Association and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation . In addition to the basketball court, the park has a baseball field, handball courts, children's playground, bathrooms, and
504-692: The league only had 20% of players registered to vote in the 2016 presidential election . The players took multiple actions in the NBA Bubble: writing phrases or names on the back of their jerseys to support the Black Lives Matter movement , boycotting games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake , and taking a knee during the national anthem to protest against racial inequality and police brutality . † First vice president The NBPA organizes Sportscaster U. , an annual broadcasting training camp at Syracuse University in association with
532-420: The magazine had a peak monthly circulation of more than 1,000,000. In conjunction with the magazine's 10th year of publication in 2006–07, the name was changed from SchoolSports to RISE to reflect its emergence as the nation's leading teen lifestyle magazine in addition to its top-notch prep sports coverage. The magazine's name was changed again to ESPN HS in 2011, but that name lasted only one year before
560-463: The players sought basic improvements of conditions including being paid for promotional activities, a limit of twenty exhibition games per season, impartial dispute arbitration, and moving expenses for traded players. While Podoloff granted back pay for players of folded franchises, the NBA refused to acknowledge the players association or make other changes until Cousy approached the AFL-CIO in 1957 and
588-484: The players threatened a strike. After formal recognition by the NBA, the NBPA won its players per diem payments and travel expenses and an increase in the playoff pool payment, and the majority of the previously demanded conditions. In 1958, however, dismayed at the lack of dues payments by players, Cousy would resign his position out of frustration. He was succeeded by Celtics second-year player Tom Heinsohn , who had studied labor relations at university and worked as
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#1732801285936616-474: The players with blacklisting and punishment, league commissioner Walter Kennedy agreed to the player's demands, and the live broadcast went to air after a slight delay. In 1983, players and owners reached a historic agreement, that introduced the " salary cap " era into professional sports. This was believed to be the first salary cap in any major professional sports league in the United States. The NBA experienced its first work stoppage, when owners imposed
644-609: The publication was discontinued. In the summer of 2006, RISE first put on a groundbreaking high school basketball showcase called the Elite 24. The game brought together the nation's top 24 high school basketball players, regardless of school year, for a game at Harlem's historic Rucker Park . The game's official name is the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic. Beginning during the 2006–07 school year, RISE teamed with Gatorade to continue Gatorade's long-standing Player of
672-482: The season had been suspended earlier in the year, on June 5, 2020, the NBPA approved negotiations with the NBA to resume the regular season for 22 teams in the NBA Bubble . During the 2020 NBA Finals , NBPA President Chris Paul announced that over 90% of NBA players had registered to vote for the 2020 presidential election . He also stated that 15 teams in the league were 100% registered to vote. By contrast,
700-431: The teams proposed a reduction players' share being from 57% to 50%. As well, with the forming of Big Three (Miami Heat) and increased player movement towards larger market teams. This concerned smaller market teams and encouraged them to establish a hard salary cap. On November 14, the NBPA was converted from a union into a trade association , enabling the players as individual employees to be represented by lawyers in
728-502: The union's authorized bargaining agent. The NBPA presented the assembled team owners with a list of demands to be met before the All Star game would be played: the pension plan, athletic trainers for every team, and the removal of matinee Sunday games after Saturday night games from the schedule. After 22 minutes of the players holding out in a locker room, the door of which was guarded by a Boston police officer and with owners threatening
756-511: Was briefly a trade association after dissolving as a union during the 2011 NBA lockout . In 1954, Celtics star point guard Bob Cousy and friend and unofficial agent Joe Sharry canvassed long-tenured players on each of the league's teams by mail, including the fledgling NBA's stars Paul Arizin and Dolph Schayes , and received support from the majority to approach the NBA President Maurice Podoloff . Cousy and
784-497: Was ousted unanimously as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) amid charges of nepotism and other concerns. 17 months later on July 29, 2014, Michele Roberts , a Washington, D.C. litigator, was elected as the new executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. She became the first female executive director of NBPA and the first woman to head
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