He was pressured out of the league for being a racist and sexist jerk, so there’s that. Man would go on screaming tirades at women until they cried and then ask, “why do all the women cry around here so much?!” He then set up a luncheon between women from the front office and from his bank, presumably so they could teach them not to cry when he yelled at them. He fully believed his behavior was okay because he was the one paying them.

Also asked why Draymond Green could say the n word while he couldn’t. Complete lack of self awareness.

The guys a cheap mfer but you’re asking how someone became successful and wealthy by cutting costs for max profit? how do you think these people make money lol

And people wonder why we are still happy with Isbia, even if he made a massive mistake.

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More than likely true. This the same dude that moved away from players to avoid paying them. This includes Kurt Thomas, Joe Johnson, and draft picks that would go on to become Rando and Deng.

Sarver was a cheap piece of shit. Current Suns fans complaining about Ishbia have no idea how good we have it right now. We didn’t even have a G-league team for a few years because Sarver sold them

A lot of times someone ends up as a “successful” business person because they just happened to be in the right place at the right time or made one big good decision, not because they made some series of shrewd decisions and actually managed a business well

Helps a lot when you start with a bunch of family money to play with too

These are the same business people that do mass layoffs and bust unions. Works when the workers have no choice, not so much when the workers are highly skilled celebrities.

I don’t know if these stories are true but they 100% line up with the stories about Sarver that I know are true. I have no problem believing these.

Sarver was the worst owner in the league after Sterling got kicked out and I’m going to be pissed if Dundon follows in those footsteps.

That dude was particularly known to be a crazy owner

Tbf Ishbia has definitely opened the checkbook. It hasn’t worked yet but it will in time. He’s a way better owner than Sarver

There is really only one left but he and his lineage of bowtie wearing mofos is like the final boss of cheap owners.

Sarver completely shunning the Coyotes and refusing to share an arena with them is what made them go through the arena fiascos in the first place

Murelo, Bidwell, and Sarver all tremendously cheap pieces of shit. Kendrick is also cheap as hell, but at least he has a championship

They also gave Rajon Rondo to the Celtics for cash considerations (and a future draft pick, but I think they ended up selling that one too…)

iirc Phoenix sold the Luol Deng pick (7th) to the Bulls for a 2nd round pick, a future protected first (became Nate Rob), and cash

Around that time, the Bulls traded fat Eddy Curry to New York for two future firsts that became Joakim Noah and LaMarcus Aldridge lol

Paxson was pretty good until he quasi-gave up the head job to Gar Forman in the early 2010s, and Matt Lloyd (current Wolves GM) left

I like the Kurt Thomas trade, that pick turned into Ibaka to Oladipo/Sabonis to Paul George to SGA and a championship 

But they also got barbosa and dragic from the spurs for cash 

Can’t forget selling the #7 pick (Luol Deng) in that list. Technically, the Suns got a pick back as well as cash, but the Bulls made the playoffs the next year so the pick landed at #21, and the Suns immediately traded it to the Knicks for Kurt Thomas, who 2 years later they gave up 2 FRP to salary dump.

The public shaming has already resulted in the Blazers flying out the 2-way guys for game 5. We have a sliver of hope that the bullying is working.

Suns could have won multiple titles if he just paid joe johnson

Cheap ass

My theory is it’s a strategy to move the team. What do owners love bringing up for moving a sports team? Attendance, viewership, and revenue numbers. What tanks all of those? Incompetence and the crushing of hope for the average fan. Blazers have had a very loyal fan base with not much local sports competition, so theyre gonna have to look particularly cheap and incompetent to empty the moda center.

Which I always say, what’s the point of all that money if you aren’t gonna use it?

Caring about pinching every penny is one thing

But there are levels of stupidity when your attempts to pinch a penny costs you a dollar. You would think a businessmen and billionaires should understand that better than anyone, but no

That’s not why they’re rich. They’re rich because they’re willing to exploit working class people and utilize their fortunes to destroy regulations thus allowing them to exploit the working class even worse.

You don’t get $1 billion by saving up a few hundred or thousand at a time. You get it by systematically stealing from thousands of individuals.

They’re rules by insatiable greed. Especially most at the billionaire level.

The response is even more braindead. Do you really think this guy’s a billionaire because he penny pinched? Are you that stupid to not understand the scale of 1 billion?

Can confirm. My employer cut costs and portrayed it as “an innovative shift in the way we do things.”

It’s been a nightmare for many of my coworkers. I’m pretty sure most of them are going to lose their jobs in the next 2-3 years.

baseball’s grappling with it bad too. Owners have realized they make money off of 1) the TV contract and 2) the fans in the stadium buying their beer, hot dog and jersey. They don’t make (as much money) off of a playoff run or a championship.

So why even field a competitive team? When you can send a roster full of platoon guys out on a random Wednesday and still ‘get the job done’ (entertaining fans)

Diehard fans get pissed off and boycott? Casuals take their seats and buy their trinkets like good little soldiers.

They’ve got it cracked.

Just imagining mid 50s D’Antoni trying to keep up with Leandro Barbosa

Cables everywhere would create an unsafe work environment. I can only imagine what the IT guys had to deal with.

It’s Amin, so yes it would be Sarver

Given the mention of Aldrige’s free agency, has to be since that was mid 2010s

They do use pickles instead of jalapenos

Kinda like how in money ball the players have to pay for sodas so then Brad Pitt during a trade asks the other GM to cover the sodas for a year lol sounds ridiculous but I wouldn’t put it past them being that cheap

I forget the name of the book but it’s one of the reasons I love stories from the ABA. It’s the most mom and pop ridiculous bullshit ever

And it does seem like he’s starting to learn the ropes. But from the beginning, it was clear that he both cares and is willing to spend to win. That’s basically 75% of the game, and the last 25% is getting the hell out of the way and letting the professionals you hire do their jobs. Well and hiring the right people.

If he learns that… then you’re in good shape.

Thanks for that reminder - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=749087875449034

Especially with the level of volume/power required for data analytics using the player sensors.

It’s really hard to force out an owner. And I don’t think the other owners who are trying to win necessarily mind having weaker competition. Although I would be mad that the bad owners essentially get subsidized by the rest of the league with the draft lottery and revenue sharing

When the Buss kids owned the Lakers, they had several players make more money yearly than them.

we’re already getting stories. But you’re not going to get inside information until 1) current employees get fired and 2) they’re long past the time where they want to be re-hired in the business