[Torre] Grizzlies majority owner Robert Pera reportedly got furious and threatened to buy out the minority owners after a woman he met out didn’t believe he owned the team and thought Justin Timberlake did.
Least insecure billionaire
Imagine having a billion dollars with a fuckin B and being this petty and miserable.
You would never hear from my ass again. I’d just randomly leave insane tips at bars and probably wear nicer sweaters.
You don’t get to that level without a massive ego pushing you.
Anyone with a normal level of ego and narcissism would’ve peace’d out and went off to retire hundreds of millions of dollars ago.
Yeah most people in society would get to \(10m-\)20m and then fuck off to a beach house somewhere. There’s something fundamentally wrong with billionaires brains.
Bezos, Zuckerberg, Elon all became the richest men in history, and that wasn’t even close to being enough for them. Now they’re meddling in our politics so they can further exploit us and control us. These people are fucking sick, and belong in an asylum.
I think people are naturally competitive and these billionaires are chasing numbers similar to how Lebron or Curry continues to play even though they could’ve rode off to sunset as HoFers long time ago. Something in their brain makes it so that they are never satisfied until they’ve achieved more than everyone else. As a society we need to make sure this kind of mentality doesn’t actively harm society.
The docuseries “Explained” on Netflix has a pretty good episode on billionaires and this is one of the aspects they cover. Mark Cuban is one of the billionaires interviewed in it.
I don’t think it is “nature.”
The want all the money and power, but they just get more negative and miserable.
These people are fucking sick, and belong in an asylum.
Bruh
nobody has any idea what tom from myspace is doing right now
I mean why is LeBron still playing? He has achieved everything. They love what they do
Sure, it’s fine for him but less so when it’s billionaires or some politicians because what they love to do is inflict pain on a lot of people for personal gains.
I’m yet to see an “ethical billionaire” as well. No one got to that level of rich without exploring/expoiting someone/thing.
Charlie Munger? Soros?
LOL Soros, he crashed the Great British Pound on purpose to make his money
Which is exactly why you don’t have what it takes to be a billionaire. Takes a special type of scum.
This is what always gets me when people do the hypothetical prompt “if I had a billion dollars…” and it’s a bunch of altruistic things (even in a limited capacity like helping “friends”) because yeah, not doing those things and being wiling to exploit people to a massive degree is one of the major steps to having the mindset to become a billionaire.
When the Powerball was like 1.5B a month or so ago, I easily made plans.
If I clear 500m after tax and all that shit, im buying a ton of land and building homes for friends, family and the like, making sure no bill ever has to go forward, then im Spending the rest aggressively being nice.
Serve me a table at Outback Steakhouse? Surprise 20K tip. Read a story online about needing to pay for someone’s treatment? I’m your dude.
Like fuck it, I’m going Marc Cuban but less of a bitch
Lottery is a tax for people who can’t understand probability
I dunno, I buy a ticket every time it gets really high, and I feel like I get $2 of utility out of day dreaming about what I’d do for myself and others with that kind of cash.
This is a good mindset. 2 dollars for a good day is an easy sale.
You can buy $2 worth of stock of VOO on cashapp. Do that and it’s way better.
I’m sure I will get the same enjoyment of daydreaming about spending the 3.76 in five years time.
You ain’t winning a billy with that attitude…
wrong, people who understand probability buy a single ticket because 0.0…1 is larger than 0
It’s a couple bucks and someone wins.
When the jackpot is a billion 5 and your odds are 292 million to 1 it’s positive EV.
Again, it’s a stupid tax. As seen the stories of the people who win it and then go bankrupt. Smart people never play it.
Athletes also go broke, so it’s not like going broke is some unique phenomenon
Fuck that I would feel like him and powertrip
I’ve always thought like this. If I was rich enough to not care about money, then id just take me and my close family/best friends and get us in a mansion chillin and just leave like 1000 dollar tips for fun.
Like i cant believe people that are this rich just like to be fucking assholes for no reason.
Have you picked out your billionaire sweaters yet? Got them in the cart?
Thats why you will never be a billionaire, me either btw After a certain point it’s not the money, its the game. And to win the game you have to be a cold ruthless pos
He’s worth 26.6 billion.
Coogi down to the socks
what’s a fuckin b if you ain’t fuckin b’s 😭
Might actually be true lol these guys are the biggest losers
No matter how rich or successful you are, you can still be a fucking loser. This guy, Trump, Musk, Bezos etc. they’re all the same brand of fucking loser. Nothing bothers them not than not being able to use their money to change that.
Billionaires can’t stand that money can’t buy being cool or being liked by people, or immortality (yet) and it PISSES them off so much.
There is another
Wait, doesn’t Justin Timberlake own the Minnesota Timberlakers?
I thought he owned The Facebook
Wasnt that Spider-Man?
Turned out to be Lex Luthor…how unironic
No, you’re thinking of that cat that loves lasagnas. The Facebook owner is the guy who directed Airplane (1980)
Noooo that’s Toby maguire. Owner of marguires car wax
He put in the time
No he started Napster I think
No that was Epstein
Drop the ‘The’ …just Facebook. It’s cleaner.
Edit: Getting downvoted for referencing The Social Network with Justin Timerlake’s own line in the movie lmao
Its ok to not get a reference, but i feel like many on this sub don’t even stop to ask if its a reference they just don’t know. How they get into that mindset, when every other post is attempting some type of joke, is beyond me.
I often experience this when I quote the next line to movie quotes.
Heard that line before…downvoted 👎
tbf that movie is ancient
This is going to ruin the tour. The season long basketball tour.
Torre is doing such amazing journalism.
Pablo really got the sources out at bars watching billionaires tryna get laid 😭😭😭😭
Maybe the woman was Pablo in a wig though?
Doing one of those fake woman voices where they sound 30 years older than they look
“Oh my Pabla, I’ve never seen such a sexy looking 6 O’clock shadow before… 🥰”
Hunterbrook Media*
And he did this too.
yes he does. in this case he is platforming and promoting great journalism done by others (Hunterbrook).
Pablo is like Bob Woodward for meaningless gossip
I worry about him
Yeah if you like Bravo TV
I woke up to my favorite franchise being owned by a war criminal
Justin Timberlake?
This is going to ruin the tour.
What tour?
The world tour!
2 tours on the Ukrainian front
this is going to ruin the tour
this is going to ruin the Tour..
The NBA doesn’t care, they have a sponsored Emirates Cup lmao.
Maverick fans know that feeling
Better or worse than waking up to your star player moving like he’s in Iraq?
This is ironic since Robert Pera also had sanction violations similar to this in Iran
I wanted to wake up to some big trade news. Instead we got this
Our president is a war criminal. I doubt this moves the needle
Justin Timberlake has been running that franchise into the ground man. He’s got to step up.
Its time for him to go bye, Bye, BYE!
He better do it quick, in a few months it’s gonna be May
Oh, Cry Me A River over the Four Minutes he has lost.
It’s not like he’s some kind of mother lover.
I know that i cant take no more
For real. It’s tearin up my heart.
Take my upvote
The damage is done so I guess I’ll be leaving
Minnesota Timbalands
I ain’t got no visa has a whole new meaning now
What goes around comes around (interlude)
Oh man this is going to ruin the tour.
Cry me a river
He should look in a mirror and fix himself.
What tour
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/06/22/justin-timberlakes-ruin-the-tour-meme-explained/
I know, I was throwing it up for you
The world tour
Ahh so the team is actually relocating. That’s a bummer.
at least we get to feel constantly tortured in the final years before it happens
Where would the Grizzlies go next? Vancouver?
Moscow
Idaho getting a team before Seattle
Great joke
Boise Bears 🐻
I can’t see it. Somebody do a photoshop to see what that would look like.
Seattle, Vegas, Vancouver in that order imo. And yes. They’re 100% moving.
Please please please 🙏
Seattle already has an arena.
Prolly Nashville.
Russia Grizzlies?
more fitting than the memphis grizzlies thats for sure
I present to you…
Vancouver grizzlies?
Yep it’s over. Things were already bad enough but if pera sells there’s not even a sliver of a possibility the team stays in Memphis. And pera himself moves the team too imo.
i’m out of the loop, is relocation actually coming? or expected soon? why?
Lease up in 2029, no successes and it has become apparent a successful team cannot form in Memphis under this organization. We still sell less merch, even recently, in a whole year than the lakers do on Black Friday. The city is declining and shrinking.
Why tf would any owner who cares at all about winning OR money want that when they could move to Vegas or Seattle and be a top 10 free agent destination, a top 10 viewership market, a top 10 and growing city to be attached to…
I hate it. I don’t want it. But I have an incredibly difficult time envisioning Memphis keeping the grizzlies without public money the likes of which has never been seen in any sport being put into the team. And then they’ll leave next chance they get in 20 years or whatever.
aw man that sucks i’m sorry
Yeah not a good time for the city of Memphis. There’s a lot of denial and cope among our fanbase, simply pointing out the above and being given up on Ja ever winning a ring for us has me banned from our sub I’ve been in since like 2016. But I think even they are starting to realize the same things I did.
But ultimately, what worries me is the city. It has nothing else going for it. Without the grizzlies I see it shrinking and shrinking a lot faster.
Its not as doom and gloom on the relocation front as some may make it seem.
Dont get me wrong, there are always concerns of relocation with us being a small market, but from what I understand, the majority owner contract has a clause that the minority owners, mostly Memphis invested people, can inact to give them leverage in the relocation process.
At the end of the day, relocation would be very expensive, long and drawn out process.
Im not saying it wont happen, again its always a possibility, but its more complicated than the owner just picking up and leaving whenever he wants.
There was an article with the details about it the last time our lease was under deliberation, but its been years so im iffy on the details.
The Seattle Grizzlies kinda works
how dare you
So do the Vancouver Supersonics
That’s kind of funny.
Not funny because I love ubiquity. It’s. A mainstay in IT. Will have to drop them if this coverage comes out and they are complicit. I am doubtful how forthright they will be to many questions.
Real shit
Small dick syndrome
The proper term is “penis.”
Billionaires are so normal
This story tells you how insecure billionaires are and their reason for buying a team is pure vanity.
That sounds like a random redditors encounter with a “celebrity”. Holds absolutely no weight.
Oh cry me a river
No one has mentioned the tour?
Pablo turn down the filter my guy
What ever happened to Torre reporting on that Leonard money and the owner shenanigans. That just got completely swept or what?
Nba said from the start the 3rd party investigation probably wouldn’t be ready until after all star break
Simple. He reported the facts, his job is done. Then the NBA took that information and did fuck-all with it.
He got doubled exposed, one for his insecurity as a multibillionaire but most importantly for his company aiding and abetting in war crimes Russia has done to Ukraine.
Robert Pera is ass and he should sell the team.
Kinda burying the lede that Pera’s company, Ubiquiti, has a shit ton of their IT gear ending up in hands of the Russian military in violation of export control laws.
There’s already several posts with thousands of upvotes on that topic.
That’s not in this clip but it’s all over other posts.
Rich people are legitimately insane. I truly believe in generations to come scientists will deem the levels of greed we’ve been living under as extreme mental illness.
genuinely, how the fuck did he get this info lmao
This is pretty damn funny
Rich people are such sensitive children. It has to warp you to have no one in your life who says no to you or your ideas
Why is this clip still up but the long form about grizzly owner sam pera being a arms dealers go down
You mean this post?: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/dX0WZOQ6BA
forgot how much Dan Le Batard and whoever his cohost is, suck. just let pablo speak without your dumb inputs
Justin Timberlake, the guy from one direction?
I’ll take this sort of billionaire mid-life crisis anyday over whatever it is that Elon is doing
You gotta read the rest of the news. He apparently also committed some light treason.
Yeah true, I was just focusing on the normal mid-life crisis stuff from this article, not the other war crimes mid-life crisis stuff
The United states is currently being governed by a child rapist and profitable child abuser
but somehow grizzlies are the real evil in the world 🥀🥀
yo wtf is going on with the grizzlies
Pera has nearly all of his wealth tied to his company stock and the Grizzlies, but mainly his company.
Every time he’s had a massive financial decision, hit pieces come out. Happened when he wanted to buy the team and he lost enough that he had to take on partners. Then it happened a few years later when he had to make a decision to either buy out or sell to the minority partners. Now he is in the midst of discussions about the Grizzlies future in Memphis.
I’m not saying he is innocent of any of this but the last two situations were also investigations by short sellers
So Justin does not own the team?
I’m tired boss… injuries, star player off court problems, coach drama, owner war criminal allegations…
They’re leaving Memphis, aren’t they….
Pure sigma male energy
Ngl this is hilarious
This is nothing compared to the owner bypassing sanctions and assisting the Russian military drone attacks on Ukrainian citizens
can’t wait until pablo starts digging into miriam
Pera is probably the lowest profile of all NBA owners.
Owning a NBA team in your 30s seems fun but you’d need to be a war criminal to do it
Pera what?
Don’t wanna be a fool for you
Pablo found his next victim. Someone make him lead detective he knows all your dirty little secrets. 🔥
“This is going to ruin the world tour” - JT
Joe Pera always seemed so mild mannered.
small pp energy
Selling to the Russians?
This is gonna ruin the tour.
No wonder Ja loves the rpg cele… Mans been playing 4d chess
How is it that people with allllll the money in the world are still losers? That’s crazy and far too common.
It adds up for what I would expect for most billionaires. Super insulted at the credit they didn’t get to spur them into extreme actions.
Stable
This is going to ruin the tour … the world tour.
10⁄10 troll that woman, incredible
I love that Pablo not only gets people on their real shit, but also catches them on their bitch shit.
If you wanna support the Russians in the war against Ukraine, don’t send routers just send special agent Ja 🔫
This is news? Who cares Pablo.
SDE
and people mad at Chauncey Billups for betting on poker…smh let’s stop worrying about the little guys and do something about these racketeering rings
Torre is a tabloid columnist at this point.
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You gotta have thicker skin than that.
Im guessing this guy is pretty short
Surprisingly 6’3 which translates to 5’11.5
I mean Hes still significantly above average
what an odd comment
Guy is a dick so he must be short. Oh he’s tall? Mentally short.
A stray as old as time
Pretty short in the area that counts the most sadly
The problem here is “ownership of the problem”! If dude didn’t assault her, threaten her life. It’s none of our business! I get the media has to report on stories for a living, but this culture “Me 2 at your expense” by trying to embarrass everyone you don’t like for whatever reason has to stop! I don’t care who Grizzles majority owner Robert Pera is, Who he dates, What goes on during or after the date! I don’t need to know he’s rich, how he made his money. The fact that he has it is more than enough for me. This man can travel the world as many times as he wants. Doesn’t have any cares us regular folk here have! This “gossipy” reporting is the type of shit the women talk about during the holiday’s in the kitchen, while all the men sit in the living room watching sports talking about guy shit!