Timberwolves could Sell for 1.5 Billion

[Klomp]

If Dan Gilbert and the awesome city of Cleveland can win a championship, then so can the Wolves.
Problem is the NBA will never let Glen win anything after the Joe Smith ordeal.
This team needs to be sold. An all in, whatever it takes, Mark Cuban kind of guy would be awesome.

So all we need to do is draft the GOAT?

[Jedzz]

Edwards will be the perfect third option behind Cade Cunningham and Emoni Bates, the new owners will make it happen!

So, somehow the Wolves will get a top 3 pick this year. Then, since Emoni Bates will just be turning 17 this year, he'll be a top pick of some future draft, so you are saying the Timberwolves will be top of the lottery for another 2 to 3 years. Then, because it's another rebuild of rookies at that point it will be another 4 to 6 years before they get into their primes so the Wolves could potentially continue sucking for another 7 to 8 years at the bottom of the league and this is your dream with the new owners?

[m2002brian]

If Dan Gilbert and the awesome city of Cleveland can win a championship, then so can the Wolves.
Problem is the NBA will never let Glen win anything after the Joe Smith ordeal.
This team needs to be sold. An all in, whatever it takes, Mark Cuban kind of guy would be awesome.

Glen is the only reason the team is still here. Much as people want to hate on him for the results, they are still here. He is ready to move on. Someone pitch it to Cuban to back them and buy another.

I understand what Glen has done as far as keeping them here. But lets be real. We all understand what he hasn't done to build a competent NBA organization. We also know what he (and his cronies) did to break the rules in such a way that it low level feels like the NBA is black balling any success this team may be able to enjoy.

I appreciate the fact he has given my home state a team to root for. Yet, at the same time, the team is hard to root for.... and a lot of that is on him.

[m2002brian]

If Dan Gilbert and the awesome city of Cleveland can win a championship, then so can the Wolves.
Problem is the NBA will never let Glen win anything after the Joe Smith ordeal.
This team needs to be sold. An all in, whatever it takes, Mark Cuban kind of guy would be awesome.

So all we need to do is draft the GOAT?

wouldn't that be nice. Although I think having a competent front office and an owner willing to spend when he/she has a player worth spending around, changes players minds about playing here.

On a semi-related note. I don't think many players want to play with KAT and maybe not DLO. They come across as soft, whiny, and entitled. Yet they have accomplished nothing in the league.

additionally... If we could get 2,000,000 fans to put up $1000, then we could make the team fan owned like the Packers.

[Jedzz]

If Dan Gilbert and the awesome city of Cleveland can win a championship, then so can the Wolves.
Problem is the NBA will never let Glen win anything after the Joe Smith ordeal.
This team needs to be sold. An all in, whatever it takes, Mark Cuban kind of guy would be awesome.

Glen is the only reason the team is still here. Much as people want to hate on him for the results, they are still here. He is ready to move on. Someone pitch it to Cuban to back them and buy another.

I understand what Glen has done as far as keeping them here. But lets be real. We all understand what he hasn't done to build a competent NBA organization. We also know what he (and his cronies) did to break the rules in such a way that it low level feels like the NBA is black balling any success this team may be able to enjoy.

I appreciate the fact he has given my home state a team to root for. Yet, at the same time, the team is hard to root for.... and a lot of that is on him.

I don't know about the blackballing. That may be overstepping. Maybe there was something to that 15-18 years ago? Not something I know much of or see now. I don't think there is much evidence of that the last say 7-8 years that I recall. Focusing on these more recent years out of convenience. When it comes to drafts three teams that seemed to have gotten favor in drafts that I remember lately are Cleveland with the back to back #1s bs and then New Orleans possibly because the league itself owned and was trying to jumpstart them. The third team would most recently be the Timberwolves who have gotten two #1 picks overall since 2015. That is if you want to claim any manual adjustments occuring, the Timberwolves have benefitted lately. Wasn't it 2009 when Wolves had great chances such as three firsts? How many years have they had multiple firsts and simply made the wrong picks. This year they had 1,17,33. It's what this team does with this each time. The league hasn't stopped any trade attempts of this team in decades, right? So not sure where that thought comes from.

Watching other teams finagle the purchase of more stars with illegal tampering and not getting slapped with 5 years of draft penalties for it might be the one thing you can point to now. However that could be also a product of the changed times and changed commissioner. If the Wolves pulled something like others, clippers, raptors, Milwaukee, Lakers and got penalized unfailrly these days well then you could more correctly claim that is still occuring. I do think the precedence of what happened to the Wolves should be taken into account when penalizing these other teams now.

[Jedzz]

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additionally... If we could get 2,000,000 fans to put up $1000, then we could make the team fan owned like the Packers.

If only that could happen. Still doesn't assure you of having good people making the right choices at the top.

[shrink]

What is the word on the NBA refusing to allow Glen Taylor to sell to Arctos, a private equity firm that allows investors to buy small shares of sports teams?

Does that impact his refusal to sell to buyers that want to move the team?

[shrink]

Glen is the only reason the team is still here. Much as people want to hate on him for the results, they are still here. He is ready to move on. Someone pitch it to Cuban to back them and buy another.

I understand what Glen has done as far as keeping them here. But lets be real. We all understand what he hasn't done to build a competent NBA organization. We also know what he (and his cronies) did to break the rules in such a way that it low level feels like the NBA is black balling any success this team may be able to enjoy.

For the record, Taylor later served many years as the President of the NBA’s Board of Governors, basically the leader of the owners.

He wasn’t blackballed over the Joe Smith incident,

I hadn’t seen the post, but I thought it should be mentioned with Silver denying his request for sale to Arctos.

[Jedzz]

I read that Arctos has already been turned down while attempting to purchase shares of other teams. So this isn't their first rejection. Maybe the NBA likes having more singular or small group owners. It's probably easier for their bimonthly Sunday morning roundtable where they hammer out the scripts for the next weeks.

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