I know thats hyperbole but Gilbert probably only spent around 600-800k. He’s worth about 22 billion so that’s like the equivalent of you buying a breakfast sandwich from McDs on the way to work. Tom is worth about 2 billion. So he’d have to spend the equivalent of you buying $50 worth of groceries to do the same. The audacity. Billionaires are fucking wild.

Think of the amount of money that will generate for him in 30 years when hes dead though! Can’t let that slip through your hands /s

thats what a stadium is for

Blazers owner didn’t send any 2 way players to the playoffs, didn’t allow staff to do late check out at hotels, and most recently just fired a bunch of people.

Blazers laid off 20% of their staff today.

Are we forgetting the owner of the Cavs is Dan Gilbert who sent a comic sans letter that sounded too close to like a slave owner after LeBron left. People have short memories

wish someone would hold my team hostage by dragging us to the finals every year

what are you talking about? he had his rookie deal and then signed an extension. where are the non stop short term contracts?

edit: also the only first round pick they traded was for sasha pavlovic in 2004. i think you’re confusing the second stint with the first. Dan Morgan’s letter was petty as fuck

He did, but the failure to get any quality draft picks early on or any competent offensive roster is still a failure.

Monster defensive teams but offensive so limited

Did LeBron try to get the Cavs to go all in without signing an extension ? Like trade whenever firsts left to try and win in his final year

Or am I imagining that

It doesn’t matter what justification he had for being “pissed”. His letter was unprofessional at best, demeaning and racist at worst. Cleveland was a poor organization who won the lottery by being gifted LeBron. Much like Vince Carter to the Raptors, LeBron made Cleveland a household name, and he got them nationally televised games.

They estimated that LeBron getting drafted to Cleveland increased the tourism revenue in Northeast Ohio by \(500 million annually through tourism, ticket sales, and hospitality. When LeBron was drafted the team was worth \)222 million dollars, when he left it had doubled to \(476 million, and then after his return before he left for the Lakers, the franchise was worth \)1.3 billion.

Gilbert’s letter was petulant and read as if Gilbert couldn’t believe that this ungrateful “boy” could leave Cleveland. In the first stint, LeBron did way more for Cleveland than they ever did for him.

The poor billionaire was mad that his cash cow decided to take his legacy into his own hands rather than rely on an organization whose best acquisitions were an old man Shaq and a past his prime, Antawn Jamison.

LeBron is a better man than me and most other people, because I would have made sure that Gilbert didn’t make another cent off my name or talents.

Wait what are you talking about? Lebron didn’t sign short term contracts during his first Cavs stint. Are you just completely making shit up?

A large part of that was him buying real estate. It’s not really philanthropy, he just sees an investment opportunity. 

Young LeBron’s best teammates in his first run in CLE were like Mo Williams, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Wally Sczerbiak. That is such ass, Young LeBron had every right to complain. They literally went from 61-21 and the #1 seed in 2009-10 to 19-63 and last place in the East with him gone lol. Not saying he’s not a complainer but some of his complaints are justified.

spending on players like boobie gibson and writing public delusional diss letters in comic sans

I think he means the whole hissy fit when Bron left, I kinda fucked with it tho

Team been ass for a hot minute. Why wouldn’t you want to get under the tax as an owner? The years where we expected to perform, we were above the cap. Again, what player of any value was given away?

Jesus Christ how dumb are you. They’re not ducking the tax to be cheap, they’re ducking the tax because the penalties are onerous and make trades more difficult. 

If you are a team planning to contend it’s fine but otherwise you should be avoiding it until you have to. 

Second this is the same ownership group that is paying a ridiculous amount of money for the Jays currently. They will gladly spend money on the Raptors. We’re already a capped out team as a non contender. 

Yah at worst all i can think of it was that it sounded a little corny

Fr, Harden got second-string big men looking like a first option on any other team. He got so many bigs the bag

I’m flairless, will fix that seeing this comment. But 👏👏👏👏

Yeah that’s a huge what-if

What exactly has he done wrong in your opinion?

If reaching 5 finals, leading league in wins twice, winning MVP twice is your idea of sabotage then well boy you better head over to kansas