The National Basketball Association (NBA) lockout of 1998–1999 resulted in the cancellation of a significant number of games. According to the claims made by proponents of sports-driven economic growth, cities with NBA franchises should experience significant negative economic losses from this...

This paper describes some common pitfalls in the teaching of price discrimination. The paper then presents some clarification of these issues and makes suggestions for teaching price discrimination to students in Principles and Intermediate Microeconomics classes.