{"id":7767,"date":"2009-05-04T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2009-05-04T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T22:37:25","slug":"nba-sales-talent-comes-to-x-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7767","title":{"rendered":"NBA Sales Talent Comes To X Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sbj200905040802-01jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sbj200905040802-01jpg.jpeg','popup','width=290,height=170,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sbj200905040802-01-tm.jpg\" height=\"117\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sbj200905040802-01.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>ESPN<\/strong> has decided that what they need to sell <strong>X Games<\/strong> sponsorship is someone from their NBA sales team, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/article\/62390\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ESPN has reorganized its X Games sales staff, putting ESPN\u2019s NBA sales executive <strong>Michele Krumper<\/strong> in charge of X Games sponsorships and bringing X Games general manager <strong>Chris Stiepock<\/strong> to more sales meetings. . . . The move is part of an effort to bolster X Games sponsorship sales in an economic period when finding corporate partners willing to align with sports properties has become more challenging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More challenging is such a nice way to say it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/article\/62390\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has decided that what they need to sell X Games sponsorship is someone from their NBA sales team, according to a story in the Sports Business Journal. ESPN has reorganized its X Games sales staff, putting ESPN\u2019s NBA sales executive Michele Krumper in charge of X Games sponsorships and bringing X Games general manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}