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National Basketball Association


7 Leadership Lessons From an NBA Coach

Avery Johnson, coach of the New Jersey Nets, shares his keys to success in management, regardless of your industry.

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5 Team-Building Lessons From the NBA Playoffs

As the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers head to a decisive Game 7 in the NBA Finals, we took a look at the way the teams were assembled and how the coa

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What Businesses Can Learn from the NBA

How to motivate employees. Although the new year has generally sparked an optimistic point of view for many small businesses, there are still plent...  Read more

When a Product's Too Good

Each day,  Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: <...  Read more

Biz Tips from the Boston Celtics; When to Dump a Client

Filing for customer divorce. Some small business owners are finding it difficult (and expensive) to maintain relationships with delinquent or disco...  Read more

Behind the Scenes: Companies at the Heart of Everyday Life

Detroit Pistons Vs. Portland Trail Blazers, The Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan 02.08.08, 8:01 P.M.  Read more

When Disaster Strikes

James Hook & Co. has been a Boston institution since 1925. But the popular purveyor of lobster saw its fortune go up in smoke this spring, after its main fac...  Read more

What You Can Learn from the Hornets

I'm watching the NBA Playoffs as I write this one -- specifically the San Antonio Spurs vs. The New Orleans Hornets. What's interesting to me is that most...  Read more

The Team Builder

Vinnie Johnson | The Piston Group | Detroit Playing for the Detroit Pistons in 1990, Vinnie Johnson -- known as "The Microwave" because he coul...  Read more

Hoop Dream

A happy entry in one entrepreneur's basketball diary: "Today I bought the Atlanta Hawks."  Read more

Her Kind of Town

How landscaper Christy Webber (Inner City 100 2004's No. 54) mowed her way into the hearts of Chicago's elite.  Read more

Why It's Pat Croce's World

During his five-year reign as president of the Philadelphia 76ers, the upbeat, unabashed, and sometimes corny Pat Croce turned the team into the Cinderella s...  Read more

Main Street: Tex Rx

You might guess that a drugstore with a star-studded clientele would be in Hollywood or New York City. But you wouldn't even be close.  Read more

Barbarians at the Watergate

It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com riche.   Read more

Barbarians at the Watergate

It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com I Read more

Helping Kids Is the Ticket

Sometimes the best way to satisfy customers is to help them do something nice for someone else. The Orlando Magic professional basketball team giv...  Read more

Phil Jackson

Inc. talks to the world champion-coach of the Chicago Bulls about the abuse of anger and the handling of key employees.  Read more

Rim Shot;

Bostonians will spend a cold night on Causeway Street to buy play-off tickets for their Celtics, but there were a lot of empty seats when the team went pu...  Read more

Turning Basketball Back Into A Business

A month after Harold Katz purchased the Philadelphia 76ers, a photograph of "Dr. J" -- Julius Erving, the six-foot-six forward for the team -- appeared in...  Read more

How to Build a Corporate Culture of Trust

When trust exists between employees and management, and more importantly with customers, business will thrive. Here's how to implement a trust strategy in yo...  Read more

Who Makes for the ^^comma^^ Best^^comma^^ Hire?

As recruiters and HR professionals, we're often immersed in employment equity and affirmative action initiatives and challenges. The strides that have be...  Read more

Obituary: Larry H. Miller

Larry H. Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, was driven  Read more

What Game Are You Playing?

If you think that business and sports have a lot in common, think again, and again. Are you playing baseball, or football, or basketball? The answer, says Ro...  Read more

The Cash Register Meets its App

The smartphone makes a significant lunge toward replacing your credit card. Plus, what if your product is too perfect, and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Be Like Steve, Suns Owner Tells Grads

Some entrepreneurs look to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos when they want to be inspired. Robert Sarver suggests Phoenix Suns' point guard and 2005...  Read more

48 Hours with the King of Cold Calls

A salesman par excellence talks about the rewards of cold calls.  Read more

Big Easy Entrepreneurs and Turning Buzz Into Bucks

Entrepreneurs help to revive The Big Easy. Four years after Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly 80% of New Orleans, the historic city is in the midst ...  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Elijah Shaw

Elijah Shaw: CEO of Icon Services Corporation, St. Paul  Read more

Obit: Restaurateurs Lose Grip on Star's Coattails

What better celebrity to endorse your restaurant than Michael Jordan? But when the owners' friendship with their celebrity patron deteriorated, it was only a...  Read more

Open-Book Basketball

A quote from Pat Riley's 'The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players' (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993)  Read more

How to Tweet and Mark Cuban Gets Body-Slammed

How to use Twitter profitably. David Spinks of Mashable has comp...  Read more

Good Hoops Player, Even Better Entrepreneur

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Mee...  Read more

Stanford Hosts Technology Summit

Stanford University this month hosts its fourth annual business summit, which will focus on promising entrepreneurial activities and investments in the gl...  Read more

America's Most Productive CEOs

Lessons from 16 super-efficient and highly-productive entrepreneurs including Caterina Fake of Hunch.  Read more

Magic Johnson to Speak at Black Entrepreneur Expo

April 27, 2007 -- Basketball legend-turned-entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson will be a keynote speaker at this year's Black Enterprise ...  Read more

Hoop Dreams: New League Banks on Sisterhood

A look at a women's basketball league that is banking on grassroots marketing and worker solidarity.  Read more

Hoop Dreams

For Rich Baumer, there's the company he's built, and there's basketball. Don't try to take the basketball away.  Read more

Top 10 Awkward Social Media Moments

Inc. decided to rank the top 10 social media embarrassments of the year.  Read more

When New Stadiums Come to Town...

In New York City, where Inc. is located, the city is considering adding two new stadiums: a new Brooklyn home court for the New Jersey Nets and a...  Read more

Leaders Share Their Inspiration: Mom, Dad, and Ayn Rand

Entrepreneurs from the 2009 Inc. 500 talk about the people who inspired them  Read more

King Ink

Tattoos are everywhere. But the tattoo business has yet to outgrow its outlaw roots. Mario Barth aims to change that. His goal: to build the Starbucks of tat...  Read more

Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading

The SEC says the Dallas Mavericks owner dodged $750,000 in losses by selling off shares in Mamma.com ahead of a discount stock offering.  Read more