Yeah man. My dream of owning an NBA team ended when I asked Robert Sarver if I could buy a small stake in the Suns and he said “who are you? How did you get in my house?!”

he’s one of us for real

No you should be scared that the moment of silence everyone does for ⁹⁄₁₁ is going to be a lot more awkward.

if the goddamn celtics sold at a \(6B valuation why on earth does the NBA think it can charge \)8B for an expansion fee???

Seems a lot cheaper to just buy an existing franchise.

Bezos doesn’t live in Seattle any more.

The punishment for Ballmer is going to be selling the Clippers, taking 2-3 years off, and then he has to buy back in for $8B and own the Sonics

Imagine if Musk buys it…

1% of Musks net worth ($832B)

About half of 1% of Broadcom or Taiwan Semiconductor

Google had a profit of $132B last year. Thats a new team every 3 weeks.

I assume he will be, but I also don’t think he’s any worse than Ballmer.

Be scared it might be Bill Gates and use it to improve his image

I know MLB was looking for in the neighborhood of \(2 Billion about 5 years ago, which makes me believe that price would go up considerably if the NBA got anywhere near \)8 Billion. The two sports had nearly the same revenue in 2024-2025.

No we should be more scared of what these billionaires end goals are on our society.

Going from 0 sports franchises to one in all 4 major leagues in like 10 years lmao

Vegas is more than just the strip, the actual city is growing really fast. It looks like a giant perpetual strip mall tho lol

Vegas is a great city and most tourists never actually experience it (because the strip technically isn’t Vegas, it’s Paradise)

The Golden Knights were the test case and proved a responding success.

My guess would be that the rise of sports betting has made it a more lucrative place for sports than before, but I definitely agree with you 100%.

LOUISVILLE

I feel like there are enough people there at all times to support all the sports but the tourism in Vegas has dropped since Covid

Raiders sell out every game. Golden Knights sell out every game. So far this “story” is true and the only “suckers” are the ones who think Las Vegas can’t handle another sports team.

Haven’t the hockey and wnba teams been successful?

Tourism with the bs that trump is pulling?

Vegas sports crowds SUCK. especially in MMA.

Almost guaranteed to sell for more just via other teams selling for more yup

Yeah but Vegas is a rather unique city and by all accounts, it’s been dying.

Yeah when you can buy a team at the right time. Having to pay $8 billion in expansion fees is pretty brutal. You aren’t making that money back for a while unless you sell the team.

Anyone who bought more than 5 years ago has made an amazing investment. I think people are getting more cautious as the value can only rise this fast for so long.

Will this \(8 billion team be \)15 or $20 billion in 10 years? Probably not

For sure, NFL is on a league of its own. They print money. That’s where the real money is at lol. You can have a the jaguars and browns playing and they will do crazy tv numbers.

Basketball and basically all other sports more regional. Tv media isn’t as lucrative with the other sports

I even think the nba team might be more popular than than the knights. I grew up in Vegas and people don’t really watch hockey like that. I go to my barbershop and it’s always nfl and nba on the tv. Vegas was originally a basketball town with UNLV winning the national titles. Lakers even played a regular season game in Vegas and it was packed.

Knights got popularity being the first sports team but I think the nba team can steal a lot of the locals interest.

Congratulations Vegas you get one of the cheapest and worse owners in all of MLB! I’m still floored they’re letting Fisher do this move. There is no way they’ll fill that stadium for 81 games. FJF.

Californian here. I feel personally attacked. Went to a VGK game last night because I was bored and the ticket price was fairly reasonable. VGK does a very good job marketing their team and there were many tourists like me who just went cuz it was something to do.

Jordan looking at xDAWG per36 and wondering why he’s not drafting correctly 

Dodgers.

No. I don’t watch baseball.

Sure, but why would a group want him at all then? It’s not like he attracts talent or know how the league works.

Yes and it’s not to say that LBJ wouldn’t be a good business partner or that he’s done anything close to really bad, I think he would be just fine as an owner.

But if you’re short on funds you better be extremely popular or exceptionally talented at business to join the fraternity. It’s easier for the league to just find a more qualified buyer than push him.

Would be crazy if he got the Busses to go in on it with him

Sorry English isn’t my first language

I meant improved in the way they improved the Red Sox - they built up the stadium, made it better, restored a log of things, improved the front office - and it worked - they won four titles and made the stadium a much better experience.

Precisely. The fees are more than most current teams in the league would go for plus you’ve got more investment required to get the operation off the ground. Why wouldn’t you just go and buy an existing franchise when it comes available

At 8 billion dollars that puts them above clippers (ranked 7.5 billion and sitting at 4th most expensive) in terms of value according to Forbes. But that franchise probably won’t be worth anything close to 8 billion probably in the next decade or so. In the past you could have bought an NBA team believing in its projected growth but this would be just straight throwing away money just to be in the big boys club

Yep, that’s the only bad roster. I’m just glad all of the other teams have pretty good rosters.