FIBA (Basketball) and IiHF (Hockey): Contrasting Management Style
FIBA (Basketball) and IIHF (Hockey):
Contrasting Management Style
By: Graham C. Lim, April 15, 2017
The International Olympic Committee can be persistent – and even abrasive – in its dealings with American major professional sports league whose sport is included in the Olympic charter.
The IOC wants the U.S. National Hockey League to send its athletes to the IOC Winter Olympics. To entice the hockey association to join the Olympics, the IOC and International Hockey Federation are offering to pay all the expenses incurred by NHL players.
The IOC even declared that 90 percent of the revenues from the NHL participation will be given back to the sport of hockey throughout the world.
It was a nice gesture, at the very least, but the NHL stood its ground and rejected the IOC offer.
Following is an April 4, 2017 statement by the IOC on the NHL’s decision in full:
“This must be a huge disappointment for the players who definitely wanted to play at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. The IOC feels very sorry for the athletes.
The decision is even more regrettable, as the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) had offered the same conditions to the NHL as at previous Olympic Games, where the insurance and travel costs were covered.
The IOC, which distributes 90 per cent of its revenue for the development of sport in the world, obviously cannot treat a national commercial league better than not-for-profit International Sports Federations which are developing sport globally.
The ice hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 will nonetheless be a very exciting one, because the players from all the other professional ice hockey leagues and their athletes will participate, and will be very much welcomed by their Olympic teams.”
The IOC’s reaction was understandable.
However, there was none of the acrimony that could have resulted due to the NHL’s rejection of the IOC offer.
That attitude is very laudable.
So unlike the National Secretariat of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) that is run like a family corporation by the racist-infested Patrick Baumann, aging Boris Stankovic and Bob Elphiston.
For the three stooges, it’s all about money derived from marketing ventures they want to impose on some FIBA member countries.
And because the Philippines, Lebanon, Japan and recently, Brazil, resisted in any interference by Baumann in their national basketball federations, and would not accede to their demonic plan to control their marketing strategies, those countries were slapped with suspensions.
Even worse, Baumann forcibly put in his henchmen in the leadership of the national basketball federations of those countries or else their suspension would not be lifted.
FIBA is all about money. In late 2014, just before the start of the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain, the professional National Basketball Association, including Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, took the FIBA to task regarding its policies on NBA players such as the equitable distribution of marketing and television revenues.
To counter the NBA’s threat to send in its 22-and-Under players instead of its pool of superstars, the FIBA lamely offered to share in the revenues.
And what about the development of the sport of basketball in other countries? Nothing of that matter was mentioned in the offer.
That can only mean that all basketball-related revenues from the FIBA World Cup or Summer Olympics go straight to the FIBA coffers where Baumann, Stankovic and Elphiston can dip their hands into.
Shame on you, FIBA secretariat. The International Hockey Federation is run far better than you.
Contrasting Management Style
By: Graham C. Lim, April 15, 2017
The International Olympic Committee can be persistent – and even abrasive – in its dealings with American major professional sports league whose sport is included in the Olympic charter.
The IOC wants the U.S. National Hockey League to send its athletes to the IOC Winter Olympics. To entice the hockey association to join the Olympics, the IOC and International Hockey Federation are offering to pay all the expenses incurred by NHL players.
The IOC even declared that 90 percent of the revenues from the NHL participation will be given back to the sport of hockey throughout the world.
It was a nice gesture, at the very least, but the NHL stood its ground and rejected the IOC offer.
Following is an April 4, 2017 statement by the IOC on the NHL’s decision in full:
“This must be a huge disappointment for the players who definitely wanted to play at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. The IOC feels very sorry for the athletes.
The decision is even more regrettable, as the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) had offered the same conditions to the NHL as at previous Olympic Games, where the insurance and travel costs were covered.
The IOC, which distributes 90 per cent of its revenue for the development of sport in the world, obviously cannot treat a national commercial league better than not-for-profit International Sports Federations which are developing sport globally.
The ice hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 will nonetheless be a very exciting one, because the players from all the other professional ice hockey leagues and their athletes will participate, and will be very much welcomed by their Olympic teams.”
The IOC’s reaction was understandable.
However, there was none of the acrimony that could have resulted due to the NHL’s rejection of the IOC offer.
That attitude is very laudable.
So unlike the National Secretariat of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) that is run like a family corporation by the racist-infested Patrick Baumann, aging Boris Stankovic and Bob Elphiston.
For the three stooges, it’s all about money derived from marketing ventures they want to impose on some FIBA member countries.
And because the Philippines, Lebanon, Japan and recently, Brazil, resisted in any interference by Baumann in their national basketball federations, and would not accede to their demonic plan to control their marketing strategies, those countries were slapped with suspensions.
Even worse, Baumann forcibly put in his henchmen in the leadership of the national basketball federations of those countries or else their suspension would not be lifted.
FIBA is all about money. In late 2014, just before the start of the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain, the professional National Basketball Association, including Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, took the FIBA to task regarding its policies on NBA players such as the equitable distribution of marketing and television revenues.
To counter the NBA’s threat to send in its 22-and-Under players instead of its pool of superstars, the FIBA lamely offered to share in the revenues.
And what about the development of the sport of basketball in other countries? Nothing of that matter was mentioned in the offer.
That can only mean that all basketball-related revenues from the FIBA World Cup or Summer Olympics go straight to the FIBA coffers where Baumann, Stankovic and Elphiston can dip their hands into.
Shame on you, FIBA secretariat. The International Hockey Federation is run far better than you.