Filed under: Heat, NBA Media Watch, Sports Business and Media
Just how closely will ESPN, and by extension the general NBA media, follow the Miami Heat this season? We'll get a taste next week, as USA Today's Michael Hiestand reports the network will ship an anchor, two analysts and at least one reporter to lovely Eglin Air Force Base in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., where the Heat are scheduled to hold media day Monday and break camp Tuesday. Typically, ESPN sends reporters to a few media days around the league. The Lakers generally receive top billing, even in years in which Kobe Bryant isn't on the trade block. (Lakers' media day 2007 is legend for the media crush.) One would imagine teams in cities where ESPN has local sites (L.A., Boston, Dallas, New York and Chicago) will receive personal attention as well.
But nothing like what Miami -- err, Ft. Walton Beach -- will see. Hiestand writes that coverage will likely "outdo anything it did on Brett Favre's annual summer soul-searching." That's really saying something, considering ESPN ran live helicopter footage of Favre's SUV ride from the airport to training camp. So I suppose we can look forward to seeing Da'Sean Butler picking up the team's donuts via shopping center surveillance camera, or something.
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