Sports Biz
- NBA D-League On The Rise
- Weis' Deal Likely Won't Change Big Money Contracts
- Time Lapse World Series Is A Great Play
- Boise State Stock Plan: An Early Success
- Dollar Signs Seen In Young "Buck" Jennings
- Iverson Wasn't A Popular "Answer"
- My Top 10 Marketing Ideas For Winless Nets
- Airlines Add 'Super Bowl' Tax
- Chicken Wing Finder Makes Debut
- Michelle Wie Wins, Now What?
RSS FEED
MOST SHARED
- The 'Real' Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed
- Amended Berkshire Hathaway Filing Indicates No Secret Stock Stakes at End of Q3
- CNBC Anchor Takes a Sabbatical
- Privately Held Facebook Creates Dual-Class Stock
- NBA D-League On The Rise
- On Twitter, Beware False Prophets
- Oil Tomorrow
- Citi Mortgage Reveals What Treasury Won't
- Novartis 'Cells' Its Flu Vaccine Technology
- Is Genius Contagious?
- Citi Mortgage Reveals What Treasury Won't
- S&P to Hit 1,200 by Year-End: Chief Investor
- Amended Berkshire Hathaway Filing Indicates No Secret Stock Stakes at End of Q3
- Facebook's Biggest-Ever Holiday Shopping Season
- Facebook's New Dual Class Structure - Slow Steps to an IPO
- 5 Big Bank Stocks Investors Should Consider: Strategists
- Gambling Drunk, Texting to Live And America's On Sale - Your Emails
- Nov. 24: Unusual Volume Leaders
- NBA D-League On The Rise
- Call Me Crazy: Confessions of a Black Friday Shopper
- US Firms Hit by Payroll Taxes at Exactly the Wrong Time
- Citi Mortgage Reveals Something the US Treasury Won't
- Fed Sanguine About US Recovery, Worried on Jobs
- Amended Berkshire Filing Reveals No 'Secret' Holdings
- In Time for Holidays: More Gloom and Doom on Economy
- Market Pros Reveal Top Black Friday Trades
- Holiday Guide to This Season's Smartphones
- Turkey Day 101: How Well Do You Know Your Bird?
Text Size 
Sports Business Reporter
On Saturday, the NBA announced that Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals would take place at 9 p.m. ET.
This became an issue last night when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Houston Rockets. Why? Because this made the Lakers the top seed and thus put the Denver Nuggets at home for Game 4.
The problem is that the Pepsi Center [PEP
Loading...
()
] was already booked by World Wrestling Entertainment for its "Monday Night Raw" show.
As of now, CNBC has learned that the WWE [WWE
Loading...
()
] and the Pepsi Center are at an impasse. The WWE has had the date and venue booked since Aug. 15, 2008. This didn't make WWE chairman Vince McMahon too pleased.
Said McMahon: “Even though the Denver Nuggets had a strong team this year and were projected to make the playoffs, obviously Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold the May 25th date for a potential playoff game."
It should be interesting to see how this shakes out.
Update: Folks, this is really shaping up to be a battle royale. We just heard from the NBA.
"The Nuggets and the WWE understand that the date of Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals cannot be changed," said NBA spokesman Mike Bass. "We are confident that the Pepsi Center and the WWE will resolve their scheduling conflict."
Questions? Comments?
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes