For years, the Web site of the National Basketball Players Association has been fairly basic: the text of the league's collective bargaining agreement, a few dated press releases on awesome and worthwile union activities, mention of the Association's leadership and -- the truly crazed will miss this; consider me guilty -- the embedded sound of a bouncing basketball when you first visit the site.Again, it was a basic, useful site. Hardly third-millenium stuff, though.
With negotiations for the 2011 CBA heating up, the union apparently decided it needed a new website more pleasing to the eye. And ... success! The new site looks sharp. Well, almost.
Visit the page in which the NBPA introduces its executive committee and you come across this.
Yep, the union's web dude has misspelled the names of two members of the executive committee. That'd be Theo Ratliff and Etan Thomas, not Theo Ratlif and Eaton Thomas. What's worse is that these fellows aren't exactly new to the league.
Of course, innocent mistakes happen all the time. Please don't put me on trial for all my misspellings here at FanHouse; I don't look good in orange jumpsuits. But at a time in which more attention than ever will be heaped on the union, a mistake like this is going to win some laughs ... which isn't exactly what NBPA bosses should be after.
