In the NBA there are many teams
who play professional basketball games against each other for the entertainment
of us the viewers, but what about all the stuff we don't see behind the scenes.
I don't mean the trades and the rumors mills I mean other things like food and
drinks being sold at the arenas and the cleaning up of the arenas.
Which brings me to this ethical dilemma
i think most professional sport organizations have, which is the selling of
liquor during sporting events. In the
NBA they have a law or a rule you can call it that states that no arena can
sell anyone any alcoholic beverages once
the 4th quarter starts which makes sense because all these people have to get
home after the game and they are. Assuming you can get one or two beers out of
your system after one quarter of basketball.
I feel this would be the case if
the average person was buying only one or two beers during the course of a game
but I have been to many sporting events were people clearly have had way to
many to drink and the arena people aren't cutting them off., but why would you
they are spending so much money and you're not their responsibility
technically.
I have been to games where they
have sold me beer after the 4th quarter had started and I just assumed they
could but then later found out they are not supposed to but if they are not
responsible for us then why does it matter right make as much money as you can
profit Which brings me back to the question can you ever have too much profit?
Useful links.
http://rossnishionba.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/ethics-in-the-nba/ - Speaks about the 2004 Pistons/Pacers fight
http://www.nba.com/help/NBAP_Code_of_Conduct.html - NBA code of conduct
Brandon Chambers (friday 8am Seminar)
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