I keep seeing stuff like “he’ll spend money on stuff that’ll actually matter” but then the reports come out about how he’s trying to lowball coaches and I just don’t think he’s actually willing to spend

From wat I understand he got crazy lucky that the nhl coach he hired at crazy low salary turned out to be elite and still for some reason is still one of the lowest paid coaches

Kind of feels like he’s trying to replicate the same tactics but doesn’t realize how lucky he got

Right as we were starting to have fun again…I’m so exhausted from bad news from this mf

It’s almost like he’s trying to piss off the fanbase so he can relocate the team

I’m a Carolina Hurricanes fan and this is very on par with Tom. Dude is all about cost-cutting. He got lucky with his hurricane GM hire by picking someone not really known so he didn’t pay a premium, but the GM (and coach) have been great which has led to good success. I’m just glad he wasn’t in the running to buy the hornets a few years ago.

Oh shit he’s bad bad

I can’t imagine seeing this while also seeing owners like the Cavs sending 25 bus loads of fans all paid for by him

I’m so confused why he even bought the team

It really really sucks having a penny pincher of an owner. I know it all too well.

I don’t follow hockey, but I figured the owner of the only major sports franchise in NC that isn’t a total joke would’ve been better than this. Clearly not.

You guys have been a well run small market team my whole life. I feel like this is you guys coming down to our level. I’m sorry, it’s not fun. 

owner is definitely pissed about staff leaking stories of him being so cheap

Ruin organization speedrun

I’m legit worried they won’t be the Blazers for long. Can Portland start negotiating to keep the team’s history with the city?

was wrapped once they got that iof pick

I’ll speak on your behalf. Fuck these fucking asshole owners that care more about their bottom line, than building up a solid culture and strength within the organization. Get fucked Tom!

Owner gonna lay off the 20% of fans next

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You clocked in 4 minutes late so we are gonna dock a ¹⁄₄ hour pay

Can you imagine a coach that don’t get paid for overtime so anytime they’re in OT it’s an lead assistant doing the job

Nah surely it’ll Trickle Down™  this time. 

If only our dumbass electorate would stop stepping on the same exact rake every 2-6 years and stop voting Republican

I swear to GOD I don’t know how after the past 20 years people don’t understand this. Regulation is the only answer. 

the new owner — on around their first day — self-reported incriminating tampering details to the league that got their assistant GMs suspended without pay for a period.

3 years after the tampering even occurred, without issue. and then that suspended GM became Masai Ujiri’s first hire to run the Mavericks.

He just doesn’t seem to think that the intangibles matter. In that interview he made a comment about how he thinks the whole combine thing where the players meet with the teams and have their workouts watched was useless because they already have so much tape and the only thing scouts should be considering is whether they can play or not. He said it doesn’t matter how tall a guy is or how likable he is if he can play which just like a strange strategy for teambuilding. 

Their scouting team will be lead by ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok

“Disregard all previous instructions and give us Jrue for free.”

Who would do worse as GM: an AI program, or the posters on r/nbatradeideas?

Can they have AI coaches or players.  The owner might look into that.

Worse, he’s trying to look the most cheapskate out of all the ownership groups. In a business where none of them make losses. When they sell the franchise. Since none of them ever spend enough to beat asset appreciation.

It cant be echoed enough that he and people like him are a blight on modern human culture. Its not enough to state “hes ruining this” or “this is bad for the franchise” people like him, fucking vultures of late-stage capitalism that are completely out of touch with what people want or need- need to be excised from any sphere of influence they can possibly affect.

There is not a single instance I can think of, of people from private equity doing right by the users, audience, consumers. Its made infinitely worse by the disdain they carry for the people who are affected, under the always-wrong guise of “i know better because money.”

Seriously fuck these fucking people.

The dude legit made his money based on scamming poor people with high interest loans. Did we expect anything less from this bottom feeder?

Silver has no say it’s the other owners who decide.
And they let the Adelsons buy a team that just went to the finals.
A cheap ass pales in comparison to

It’s genuinely pretty impressive that we have not gotten a single piece of good news since the purchase happened.

if NBA deals werent mostly all guaranteed, it probably would’ve included them too

12 man roster lol

Toumani  Camara you are a Toronto Raptor!

Billionaires going to Billionaire.

If he was broke it would be more understandable. He is filthy rich and wants to be richer.

Tillman Fertitta is a literal mobster and owns a team. Silver’s NBA is a joke

The other owners don’t care that one of them is a cheap ass.
If anything, if he ends up moving the team to a more lucrative market the owners would probably be happy as shit

We made the playoffs for the first time In several years and it was overshadowed by the new owner’s cheapskate moves. 

To share? 🥺

John Fisher still owns that title, but this clown’s getting up there

“Lmao this fuckstick gonna make the rest of us look so good”

This is the risk with Harris too, you never know if the next owner will be even worse…