This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:49 pm
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Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:37 pm
Damn you!
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:48 pm
Terrible. I am **** by this. ****.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:55 pm
It's amazing they couldn't just reduce the salary like with others.
Furloughed is supposed to be a leave of absence and temporary though, and it does kind of make sense with COVID not to be around players, travel with the team, etc. I do wonder if there are rules in place by the NBA that wouldn't allow her to do the types of stuff she normally does.
If this is the case though, they easily could have taken whatever precautions they needed to.
Furloughed is supposed to be a leave of absence and temporary though, and it does kind of make sense with COVID not to be around players, travel with the team, etc. I do wonder if there are rules in place by the NBA that wouldn't allow her to do the types of stuff she normally does.
If this is the case though, they easily could have taken whatever precautions they needed to.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 12:04 am
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 12:27 am
That **** with the afro better be out too then, cannot stand him.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 5:10 am
Lindsey was one of the few things that made watching the Suns bearable over the last few years. This is a horrible move.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 5:32 am
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 5:35 am
TASTIC wrote:That **** with the afro better be out too then, cannot stand him.
Oh you are not down with Weezy?
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 6:25 am
Sucks that she was hyping up this team when there was literally nothing to be hyped about. Now that we're starting to become good and she gets let go....some might argue she had as tough a job as any trying to keep even Suns fan interest during the McD era
I get it, it's a business but man....
I get it, it's a business but man....
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 9:30 am
Mentioned this in the off season thread before I saw this one but it’s truly terrifying how broke Sarver is (for professional sports team owner). He already was one the poorest sports owners in professional sports and now the pandemic has probably drained him even more.
I don’t understand the stubbornness of guys like Sarver and Fertitta in not selling their NBA teams. Must be some kind of an ego thing.
NBA should institute some sort of policy that only those who have a net worth of at least like $5 billion at the time of sale can buy an NBA team. They would still have tons of wealthy billionaires lining up to buy teams.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 1:15 pm
If I lived in Phoenix I'd be looking for my torch and pitchfork. Damn you, Sarver!
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 6:10 pm
You're absolutely onto something with the league having some mendoza line for an ownership groups financials. Having poverty franchises isn't good for the product as a whole. Broke boy Sarver should sell to someone who has enough money to treat a team like a toy not a business.Revived wrote:
Mentioned this in the off season thread before I saw this one but it’s truly terrifying how broke Sarver is (for professional sports team owner). He already was one the poorest sports owners in professional sports and now the pandemic has probably drained him even more.
I don’t understand the stubbornness of guys like Sarver and Fertitta in not selling their NBA teams. Must be some kind of an ego thing.
NBA should institute some sort of policy that only those who have a net worth of at least like $5 billion at the time of sale can buy an NBA team. They would still have tons of wealthy billionaires lining up to buy teams.
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Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 7:10 pm
WeekapaugGroove wrote:You're absolutely onto something with the league having some mendoza line for an ownership groups financials. Having poverty franchises isn't good for the product as a whole. Broke boy Sarver should sell to someone who has enough money to treat a team like a toy not a business.Revived wrote:
Mentioned this in the off season thread before I saw this one but it’s truly terrifying how broke Sarver is (for professional sports team owner). He already was one the poorest sports owners in professional sports and now the pandemic has probably drained him even more.
I don’t understand the stubbornness of guys like Sarver and Fertitta in not selling their NBA teams. Must be some kind of an ego thing.
NBA should institute some sort of policy that only those who have a net worth of at least like $5 billion at the time of sale can buy an NBA team. They would still have tons of wealthy billionaires lining up to buy teams.
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The guy who bought the Jazz almost bought the Suns. He is worth 8B. Not sure why it fell through - maybe Sarvers ego or hubris - but I think many Suns fans would have been happy with that guy owning the team. Smith probably wasn't making much - hard to think they couldn't keep her. They just hired Mizell too.
But its just not less rich owners like Sarver - the Nationals baseball guy, Lerner is worth 5.3B. Now I get it probably is very diversified in stocks real estate, etc. But a guy like Lerner has 2B in the stock market, 10% return, which is very doable these days is $200m. That would easily cover support staff, minor leaguers and probably most of the big club salary. And yet I think the Nats laid off some people, stopped paying minor leaguers $400 per week.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 7:41 pm
Oh yeah plenty of billionaires are actually cheap **** too. It's pretty funny that Paul Allan owned Blazers and the Kronke owned Nuggets have never owned their own gleague team...they are literally some of the most wealthy people on the planet.BobbieL wrote:WeekapaugGroove wrote:You're absolutely onto something with the league having some mendoza line for an ownership groups financials. Having poverty franchises isn't good for the product as a whole. Broke boy Sarver should sell to someone who has enough money to treat a team like a toy not a business.Revived wrote:
Mentioned this in the off season thread before I saw this one but it’s truly terrifying how broke Sarver is (for professional sports team owner). He already was one the poorest sports owners in professional sports and now the pandemic has probably drained him even more.
I don’t understand the stubbornness of guys like Sarver and Fertitta in not selling their NBA teams. Must be some kind of an ego thing.
NBA should institute some sort of policy that only those who have a net worth of at least like $5 billion at the time of sale can buy an NBA team. They would still have tons of wealthy billionaires lining up to buy teams.
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The guy who bought the Jazz almost bought the Suns. He is worth 8B. Not sure why it fell through - maybe Sarvers ego or hubris - but I think many Suns fans would have been happy with that guy owning the team. Smith probably wasn't making much - hard to think they couldn't keep her. They just hired Mizell too.
But its just not less rich owners like Sarver - the Nationals baseball guy, Lerner is worth 5.3B. Now I get it probably is very diversified in stocks real estate, etc. But a guy like Lerner has 2B in the stock market, 10% return, which is very doable these days is $200m. That would easily cover support staff, minor leaguers and probably most of the big club salary. And yet I think the Nats laid off some people, stopped paying minor leaguers $400 per week.
Sarver is a **** owner for multiple reasons and frankly I doubt he couldn't afford to pay some employees that he's furloughing but it is noteworthy that he's probably the least wealthy nba owner.
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Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2020 9:33 pm
LV-Suns wrote:TASTIC wrote:That **** with the afro better be out too then, cannot stand him.
Oh you are not down with Weezy?
Not gunna lie i dont like him either lol
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Wed Dec 2, 2020 5:10 am
Wait, aren't all local broadcasts using sideline reporters still? Home much could the poor girl be making, not to mention things are probably going to be back to normal by the end of the season with the vaccine expected to be widely available around April/May.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Wed Dec 2, 2020 1:41 pm
If people are mad at Sarver for layoffs they need to take it up with coronavirus. Lol. Smh. Let people handle their business the way they handle it. Most of y’all don’t even have a business much less a job for anyone to criticize you on your business decisions.
Side note: I don’t care about Sarver. Don’t care to defend him or bash him. I’m neutral. But all the former employees who have spoken negatively on sarver and he never strikes back. He just keeps paying them. So don’t let media brainwash you. Media paints Sarver as some evil man but yet we have 2 of the nicest most respected individuals in james Jones and Monty Williams.
Side note: I don’t care about Sarver. Don’t care to defend him or bash him. I’m neutral. But all the former employees who have spoken negatively on sarver and he never strikes back. He just keeps paying them. So don’t let media brainwash you. Media paints Sarver as some evil man but yet we have 2 of the nicest most respected individuals in james Jones and Monty Williams.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Wed Dec 2, 2020 2:36 pm
SlovenianDragon wrote:LV-Suns wrote:TASTIC wrote:That **** with the afro better be out too then, cannot stand him.
Oh you are not down with Weezy?
Not gunna lie i dont like him either lol
He makes my skin crawl.
Re: This time, Sarver has gone too far
Posted: Fri Dec 4, 2020 9:35 am
dautjazz wrote:Wait, aren't all local broadcasts using sideline reporters still? Home much could the poor girl be making, not to mention things are probably going to be back to normal by the end of the season with the vaccine expected to be widely available around April/May.
In a full year she probably makes less than half of any one of Booker's or CP3's game checks. Forget half, less than a fourth of either one's game checks actually.