If you gerrymander the plane across 5 seats correctly, you’d actually get 4 non-Saudis and 1 Saudi.

I’m a wrestling fan and over the past few years it definitely worked with other wrestling fans. It went from “wow they showed an ad of a Saudi woman crying in the first show because they are now allowed to drive” to “these people love wrestling just like us!”

Yes that ad was real. They showed it during the event. Also female wrestlers have to wear body suits because of their fucked society.

But hey they’re super progressive now because they cheer for wrestlers like America! /s

the online left’s biggest prognosticator thinks America deserved ⁹⁄₁₁, that’s not a detraction

Jamal Khashoggi is one of the billion crimes the Saudis commit everyday, but the ⁹⁄₁₁ reference is just straight up misinformation.

Osama was expelled from the country in 1991 and stripped of his citizenship in 1994. As was any other Saudi origin person confirmed to be working with him. That’s why the terrorist org operated out of Afghanistan, where the Talibans were anti-Saudi royal family and even had future plans to attack Saudi Arabia to take over the Islamic holy sites.

This is silly. Sports washing doesn’t work. Who is the first German you think of , Boris Becker, Franz Beckenbauer , or someone having to do with WW2?

It won’t be on their own. Kushner is head of a VC firm with billions of AUM. There’ll be loads of minority investors but listing them isn’t a fantastic headline

Kushner has Saudi prince oil reserve money.

His organization whatever the fuck it was had money to buy and turn Fifa into corporation(around 10 billion btw). Football world fucked them and cancelled the entire thing. So they probably have extra cash.

FBI(Kushner’s brothers daddy in law) also had investigation on Walter. So i am guessing that investigation will be cancelled.

Because they couldn’t strong arm Europeans on football, they optioned to strong arm corrupt American businessman. I really hate “new World order”. Fuck you Trump.

The number of people who can afford professional sports teams is rapidly shrinking with how fast the valuations are rising. We’re going to see massive ownership groups as the new normal.

Bro it’s the Lakers, it would be pretty easy to get a loan or something I’d imagine.

Josh Kushner is actually super rich. His VC firm is worth billions (his ownership stake alone is estimated at ~$5B). So with some basic debt, they probably could afford to do it on their own. But I agree with what others have said.

Thrive had a bunch of middle eastern sovereign wealth funds lined up for the FIFA thing and has done deals with Abu Dhabi’s fund before. Given Abu Dhabi was probably heavily involved in the Walter acquisition, I could see them also being heavily involved in this one. Who really knows.

Well that’s obviously not the reason

Ya, idk if it’s the same in the NBA as in the NHL, but the NHL owners get the expansion fees to incentivize expansion.

I think the latest price tag was around 3.5 billion.

Its so crazy to me that the Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in the world still, considering how ass they are. The warriors are still behind them while winning 4 championships in the last 10 years

Dodgers?!

You could pivot to playing good videogames

sale went through officially last week. but wait, its gets better – it was the largest leverage buyout in history (not just games). They now have 21 Billion in debt to manage.

totally a huge coincidence that College Football 27 launched with specific dynasty mode settings that have existed for years, being behind a paywall.

Youre going to see micro transactions like you’ve never imagined before. EA is cooked.

Tell me you’re a normie without telling me you’re a normie

I think they probably want an audit so that the IRS gives them another $1.8 billion slush fund tbh

its actually wild

We have lakes of piss downtown.

Do the la brea tar pits count?

Seattle has a big lake

Those good old Vegas desert lakes

Yeah that’s about the level of intelligence you expect to go with that flair lol

u/Exzibit21 you gotta put the /s for these short bus Laker flairs bro

It must be hard being such an imbecile as to not catch very obvious sarcasm -_-

Are all Laker fans too stupid to see an obvious joke or are you a unique snowflake?

Depends on the Las Vegas ownership group, as some wanted to build a whole new sports hotel/arena complex

I think they will get it easy because vegas has a built in advantage very few cities in America have, a shit ton of tourists who for the novelty will go to an NBA games. The overall visitor numbers are down, but it’s still leagues and bounds ahead of all but a few cities. Makes it much easier to sell tickets for a high price as a “experience”, and vegas still has a ton of rich companies/people which makes selling suites/sponsorships easier. I think people will be queuing up for Vegas, Seattle may be the tougher sell but I assume they will get that too.

I don’t think that money was there last year. This is a follow up to the FIFA fall out.

But her siblings are going to be apoplectic anyway. What a terrible look. One year later!?

Considering that the Clippers stadium cost $2B and who knows how much goes into the training centre. Probably at least another billion to get that set up.

So probably would cost $15B range to set up a tram

For Seattle, we already have a brand new NBA ready stadium and a training facility. They built Climate Pledge Arena (where the WNBA and NHL teams currently play) with the idea that NBA will be played in there one day.

So the real price tag for the Vegas franchise would be 10b+ I assume?

Same with real estate, if only I had been rich fifty years ago, I’d be Jerry Jones today.

He argued before that the Lakers weren’t *really* worth $10 billion after the previous sale.

This is different, now that it’s part of their family. Dolan was “just a friend”

Ours is literally from a mafia family out of Galveston, Texas.

Are you person with Rocket’s flair?

Mark Walter already had a $10 billion investment by a sovereign wealth fund from Abu Dhabi as part of his investment group when he bought the Lakers

This is Josh Kushner. Not Jared Kushner.

The valuation is the juice

Does the NBA not have a salary cap? Must’ve missed that

So did the owner selling the team