Getting your player ready...
If you’re a basketball fan, you’ll hear the name American Airlines a lot over the next couple of weeks. American slapped its name on the arenas of both teams playing in the NBA Finals back when stadium naming rights were a hot commodity — the American Airlines Arena in Miami and the American Airlines Center in Dallas. American bought the naming rights to those arenas a decade ago. According to published reports at the time, which American wouldn’t confirm or deny, it agreed to pay $195 million over 30 years for the Dallas rights and $42 million over 20 years in Miami.
