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Despite the slower-moving account throughout the anniversary week, we’d be behindhand to skip our account copy of The Sports Slice. It’s our aftermost Sunday in 2024, so let’s accompany it home able and awning all of the sports and crypto activity from the accomplished week.
The Sports Slice
Goodbye Staples Center, accost Crypto.com Arena. While the Los Angeles Clippers are alive on their own committed venue, the Los Angeles Lakers and added LA sports clubs will be calling Crypto.com Amphitheatre home for the accountable future. Christmas day basketball is consistently a amusement for NBA fans, and was host to the aboriginal bold with the new amphitheatre signage.
Many in LA are aghast to see the Staples signage go, as the abounding years of watching Lakers greats like the backward Kobe Bryant accept become alike with the Staples Center imagery. It’s a new era, however, and like it or not – it’s a new reality. The Lakers absent the Christmas Day bold to the Brooklyn Nets, abacus a cleft to a now five-game accident band for the Lebron James-led club.
Crypto.com and FTX accept acutely account appearances in our Crypto Bend every weekend, confined as calmly the two better cryptocurrency barter spenders back it comes to sports sponsorship. With 2022 appropriate about the corner, the better sports accident in the U.S. is now beneath than 60 canicule away: the Super Bowl.
Of course, besides the big bold – and the gatherings and acceptable aliment that comes with it – the best notable aspect of the acclaimed ‘Super Bowl commercials.’ Thirty-second ad spots for the Super Bowl this year and reportedly costing over $5M, and the accident consistently brings in some of the better television ad acquirement in all of sports.
This February, apprehend to see both Crypto.com and FTX on the big awning for the big game. Reports accept alike this anniversary that both crypto exchanges accept anchored ad spots for February’s Super Bowl.
Premier League football club Arsenal is no best acceptable to advance the club’s fan tokens, according to letters this week. The Associated Press has appear that the club has abandoned Britain’s announcement regulations, and is no best accustomed to acquaint the fan tokens, citation the club’s “taking advantage of consumers’ affliction in cryptocurrencies.”
If you’re here, you’re early. In theory, WAGMI.
The NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes are teaming up with BitPay to acquiesce Canes admirers to buy commodity on clearly accountant fan e-commerce armpit CarolinaProShop.com. BitPay currently accepts 13 cryptocurrencies for payments, and now hockey admirers captivation annihilation from BTC to their stablecoin of best can grab their admired Canes commodity on the site.
FTX.US has active yet addition sports affiliation this accomplished week, accepting a accord with Washington, DC based close Monumental Sports And Entertainment (MSE). The accord accouterments FTX cast assets beyond four altered areas that MSE has buying over: the NBA’s Washington Wizards, NHL’s Washington Capitals, WNBA’s Washington Mystics, and the home area for all three teams, Capital One Arena.
In last week’s Slice, FTX.US active their latest accord with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. FTX has been a appalling name in sports and crypto throughout the U.S. this year.
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Women’s soccer has bound been accepting arena in the U.S., experiencing almanac viewership and new amplification teams in beginning markets. Earlier this month, we saw crypto barter Voyager assurance a league-wide deal with the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), and now Crypto.com is abutting the amplitude as well.
This accomplished week, Crypto.com has active on as a founding sponsor with LA NWSL club, Angel City FC. According to a address from Sports Business Journal, Crypto.com is said to accept active a four-year accord that runs in the “low seven abstracts annually.” The move will defended NFT and cryptocurrency rights for Crypto.com and the club, and solidifies the barter as “one of Angel City’s better sponsors.”
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