Kidd gives gold medal to casino...

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Kidd gives gold medal to casino... 

Post#1 » by BillessuR6 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:02 pm

Don't worry. This isn't a case of Jason Kidd paying off a Charles Barkley-sized gambling debt. He's just fulfilling a promise to Elaine Wynn of Wynn Casino fame. "Last summer, we stayed at the Wynn for (what seemed like) a lifetime, close to three weeks," Kidd told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "We met at a banquet, we got to talking, and she really understands the game. I told her I'd make a deal with her, that if we won the gold medal, I'd give it to her. She thought I was kidding. But I told her I had one already, and the way they treated us at the Wynn, it was the least I could do."


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Re: Kidd gives gold medal to casino hostess 

Post#2 » by theTHIEF » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:08 pm

Casino hostess? I thought she was the wife of the owner of the hotel/casino, the Wynn...
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Post#3 » by magicfan4life05 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:12 pm

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Post#4 » by Blackfyre » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:25 pm

Stupid. To me that medal has same worth has championship ring.
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Post#5 » by Collie » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:38 pm

Guess all that Olympic gold = NBA championship was all talk...

Then again, he already has one, and it's that he won that counts. :D
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Post#6 » by raps4life~ » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:47 pm

wow...... :o
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Re: Kidd gives gold medal to casino hostess 

Post#7 » by Dozer! » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:50 pm

He gave it to the owners wife, not a casino hostess. Would of been better to give it to coach K.
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Post#8 » by DraftBoy10 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:04 pm

Cool. But what did she give him in return?


























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Post#9 » by carrottop12 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:07 pm

Ehh, he didn't do much to earn it anyways.
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Post#10 » by Whateva » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:09 pm

And Wade didn't know where his bronze medal was in '04 , and Carmelo threw it in a lake
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Post#11 » by semi-sentient » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:17 pm

The medal itself is just an object that symbolizes what the team achieved. Giving the medal to someone else doesn't take away that achievement, so what Kidd did is his own business and shouldn't be criticized.
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Post#12 » by Dtown84 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:33 pm

That's one hell of a tip....
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Re: Kidd gives gold medal to casino hostess 

Post#13 » by LLcoleJ » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:49 pm

Mis-leading title...

Its not a casino hostess. Its the wife of Billionaire Steve Wynn. Who owns the Wynn hotel in Vegas. She became friends with Kidd while the USA team was staying there for 3 weeks this summer.

She is an older lady -- probably mid 60's , super rich ..maybe Kidd likes the cougars?

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Post#14 » by DraftBoy10 » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:00 pm

Phil_2.0 wrote:Mis-leading title...

Its not a casino hostess. Its the wife of Billionaire Steve Wynn. Who owns the Wynn hotel in Vegas. She became friends with Kidd while the USA team was staying there for 3 weeks this summer.

She is an older lady -- probably mid 60's , super rich ..maybe Kidd likes the cougars?

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Mid-60s isn't really a cougar. I say 40-50's. 55 at the latest. But I think he thinks she's a GILF.
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Post#15 » by theTHIEF » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:00 pm

Phil_2.0 wrote:Mis-leading title...

Its not a casino hostess. Its the wife of Billionaire Steve Wynn. Who owns the Wynn hotel in Vegas. She became friends with Kidd while the USA team was staying there for 3 weeks this summer.

She is an older lady -- probably mid 60's , super rich ..maybe Kidd likes the cougars?

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that's what I had read, earlier in the week...

on a side note, what is the cut off age for "cougars"?
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Post#16 » by ryst » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:08 pm

Steve Wynn doesnt own the the Wynn hotel.
he is a part owner and was in charge of the planning of the hotel.
most of the hotel belongs to a Billionaire from Japan.
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Post#17 » by theTHIEF » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:09 pm

meh, minor details...
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Re: Kidd gives gold medal to casino hostess 

Post#18 » by LLcoleJ » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:28 pm

ryst wrote:Steve Wynn doesnt own the the Wynn hotel.
he is a part owner and was in charge of the planning of the hotel.
most of the hotel belongs to a Billionaire from Japan.


Actually, Wynn Resorls Limited Owns the hotel. It is a publicly traded company and Steve Wynn is the chairman and CEO.

In addition, he is the major sharholder of his company owning - 24,007,536 in the company stock and those shares are currently trading for $92+ ( which is head and shoulders above any investor and or institutions stake in the company.

You may have read somewhere that a japanese investor put up some cash to build the hotel but it was most like angel investor or venture capitalist. Wynn is known as one of the best to raise capital for his projects.

But I digress.... Funny story about Steve Wynn... A huge art collector was showing off one of his paintings that was going to be sold for 139 million dollars and the deal was all but down. He was showing it off to a reporter and turned around and put his elbow into the painting - ripping a hole in it. DOH!
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Re: Kidd gives gold medal to casino hostess 

Post#19 » by LLcoleJ » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:31 pm

theTHIEF wrote:
on a side note, what is the cut off age for "cougars"?


Good question...

Here is one definition, but I wont link to where I got it.

Cougar 1414 up, 459 down
(see also hunt, prowl, corner, pounce). Noun. A 35+ year old female who is on the "hunt" for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities)waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path. "Man is cougar's number one prey"


lol

Maybe its relative based on age, considering Kidd is 35+ :lol:
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Re: Kidd gives gold medal to casino hostess 

Post#20 » by Devilzsidewalk » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:32 pm

don't be naive, all hotels are actually owned by mobsters

haven't you ever seen Godfather II?
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