why are basketballs so expensive?
sum of all the above discussion is that spalding produces the most expensive basketball ball. although its prize is a bit more than other balls, it has extraordinary characteristics like high grip, less absorption of dust, the ability to absorb sweat, and long durability.
I don`t know why they feel that way.   

  

The 90`s had some of the best compition in any era.More than now,or 60-8`s.They had some of the craziest teams to play with,John stockton and karl malone`s jazz.Isiah thomas`s pistons.Reggie millers pacers.Magic`s lakers.Birds heat.The orlando magic.   

  

They just find it hard to believe that some guy is the GOAT and there favorite player is not good as that player.Witch he is,Everyone need a good team,Kobe lebron is chasing one,so why only bash micheal jordan for that and none of the other teams?There being indenial the he isnt good.'   

  

I mean just look at some of this defence he had to play against,hand checking and what now [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJJNUkrd...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJJNUkrdyQ) it was very phiscal defence back than,20 times harder to score on the defence.   

  

Not only being defended they had to gaurd some of the best players,and hardest to gaurd   

tockton, Larry Jhonson, Allan Houston, Reggie Miller, Bernard King, Magic johnson, Adrian Dantley, Kevin Johnson,larry bird:all very hard to gaurd and great scorers   

  

So the COMPITION is severly underated beck in the 90`s for it is harder than now,or before,perhaps the hardest eras of them all,im a youngster,but i understand the facts unlike the rest of the people who dont. help pay for her/his ballet classes and summer intensives. possibly other costs as well like pointe shoes etc. possibly even room and board. it would depend on what was needed and how much scholarship she or he has.
 
edit: yes ballet dancers have sponsors because training is expensive. sex is not involved as some of the other moronic answers have implied. **gold is gold** and the same price everywhere-very expensive right now-but the low cost of labour here makes it a good buy,plus the amazing designs available. all gold is hall marked. build quality is very bad for activa but sold as indians are crazy abt foreign brand ..tvs is any time best no, the top one is not worth it.

the core i7 990x is a very expensive cpu that's ideal for hardcore number crunching, 3d design/rendering and media encoding. but it's not future-proof by any stretch of imagination, that socket is already obsolete.

for everyday use and gaming, the core i5 2500k is the best bang/buck processor on the market. 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/20

if you're building a rig for movie editing or working in maya/3d studio max/blender, you're probably still better off with the core i7 2600k than the 990x because of the huge price disparity. the $700 difference in price corresponds to a small difference in overall performance. for that money you could have a professional workstation graphics card, triple the ram etc.

for gaming, the most important component in your build is the graphics card, and i don't see one listed? roughly 70% of gaming performance is determined by your graphics card. for gaming, even a core i5 2400 with a radeon hd 6970 or gtx 570 is far superior to the more expensive 990x with some $110 graphics card like a radeon hd 5750 or geforce gts 450.

http://www.techspot.com/review/359-nvidia-geforce-gtx-560ti/page7.html

anyway, it's not possible to buy any computer hardware that will still be considered "great" 5+ years later. you want something great by today's standards, on a socket which provides good upgrade options a couple of years down the road. you may not need to upgrade so quickly, but you'd be able to- that's how you get a system to last 5+ years.

ivy bridge will be released in the next few months, and that will outperform sandy bridge. you might get a couple hundred if you part it out...ram / dvd drive / cpu / heatsink assembly / hdd / motherboard....failing that, maybe $100 for spares/repair on ebay....

the windows license wold be worth a few bucks too....(although technically, you can't resell these)

the laptop market has really dropped lately, and new laptops are dirt cheap, cmopared to what they were...unfortunately that has a knock on effect for us when we try to resell...

best idea is to part it out, or check out ebays wanted posts, see if anyone is looking for one for spares/repair.

if you feel really apprehensive aboutt aking the loss, you could always claim it off your insurance, as it was accidentally damaged, after all.... that is still 135 more than i'd pay you. directions: study the following data carefully and answer the question given below.the circle-graph given below shows the spending of a country on various sports during a particular year. what percentage of the total expenditure is spent on basketball and golf combined? it was a youtube survey. proably a lot of people answring don't even play xbox. also, there was some price hike controversy recently that might have led some people to decide they aren't doing it anymore. gold makes them crazy......😂😂😂😂