Indiana Market Research: Enough "Hip-Hop" Culture Already

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Hip Hop Culture
Published 10/9/2007 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
... Well that got a lot more interesting today when Henry Abbot discussed some market research that went into the Jim O'Brien focus. All this story needs is Larry Bird ...

Racial Insinuation From Pacers Ad Campaign a Joke
Published 10/9/2007 by Cornrows at Indy Cornrows: Front Page Posts
Henry at True Hoop picked up the ...

Fear of a Black Planet
Published 10/9/2007 by Ty Keenan at Plissken at the Buzzer
... away from "hip-hop culture" to appease and market to their fanbase (via TrueHoop) brings up some very interesting points about race, Middle America, and white men's relationships to superathletic basketball-playing black men. While I don't want to paint all Indianans as young American kids just doing the best racist things they can, I do think there's a strong racial component to this story, and it deserves full attention. ...

The Debriefing: This 'Time Out Right Before the Field Goal' Nonsense Has to Stop
Published 10/9/2007 by mjd at FanHouse
... article, via this interesting post at TrueHoop: ...

Pacers to Market Coach, Not Players
Published 10/9/2007 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... to their fan base, not their players. From the Indiana Business Journal via True Hoop: ...

If Jim O'Brien Gets You Excited, You Might Be Slightly Biased
Published 10/9/2007 by Bethlehem Shoals at FanHouse
... Yesterday, True Hoop ran a story about the Pacers' 2007-08 marketing. Henry linked to ...

Cheap Shots #71: Marketing The First-Year Coach?
Published 10/9/2007 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... The Indiana Pacers have an interesting marketing strategy this year. [True Hoop] ...

The Pacers’ Brilliant New Marketing Scheme : Pictures Of Larry Bird
Published 10/9/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Link Dump!
Published 10/9/2007 by McD at Rumors and Rants
... Are the Pacers and their fans having race issues? All I know is that the Jim O'Brien commercials are hilariously lame - True Hoop ...

Wednesday links
Published 10/10/2007 by 100% Injury Rate at 100% Injury Rate
... The Pacers will be marketing their coach this year, not their players. Uh, what? [True Hoop] ...

GSoM 2k7-2k8 NBA Preview: Eastern Conference Power Picks
Published 10/26/2007 by Atma Brother ONE <info@goldenstateofmind.com> at Golden State Of Mind: Front Page Posts
... The playoff drought ended in the Bay last season, but it's just begun in Indy. Hope they enjoy all those vanilla flavored losses- hey they asked ...