The Dallas Mavericks are holding Tim Hardaway Bobblehead Doll Night on Saturday as scheduled despite the fact the veteran guard was traded Thursday to the Denver Nuggets.
Matt Fitzgerald, Mavericks vice president of marketing and communications, said the promotion will go on because it’s sponsored by Dr Pepper and has been advertised for quite a while.
“There are a lot of fans who specifically buy tickets to our games to receive one of these bobblehead dolls,” he said. “I think it’ll become even more of a collector’s item now.”
Hardaway follows Seattle’s Rashard Lewis, Miami’s Brian Grant, Phoenix’s Stephon Marbury and former Denver coach Dan Issel as NBA figures who have been struck by the Curse of the Bobblehead Doll this season.
To the rescue
World light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. has added ownership of the National Women’s Football League’s Pensacola Power to his outside interests that already include playing minor-league basketball and recording rap songs.
Jones purchased his hometown team for an undisclosed sum after former owner Mary Hartzog lost rights to the Power when she failed to pay $11,000 owed to the league.
Say what?
`There always comes a time when you have to finish your career and it’s the right time to finish with football after this season.’
-NFL Europe placekicker Manfred Burgsmueller, who at 52 surpasses George Blanda by four years as the oldest man to play pro football
