XTC wrote:People really think owners care how much power players have
More like GM's care how much power players have.
The owners only care about how much money is going in their pocket, and with all the TV deals signed recently, the owners have every reason to stay hush and collect their dollars.
This actually could not be further from the truth. You must not be aware of this, but the NBA team owners meet a couple of times a year to discuss how the league is run and most of the big ticket topics at those meetings lately have been about star players forcing their way out. Reportedly some of these owners meetings within the last couple of years got pretty adversarial - because many of the owners were upset about the way that star players have been forcing their way out because of the impact that it has on competition.
And sure you could take the super negative mindset that the only reason owners care about the league being competitive is money and they're jealous of the large market teams having the luxury of stars trying to force their way there because that can in some situations result in the team being more profitable...
But I couldn't disagree more. NBA owners - despite being billionaires - are still human. There aren't very many NBA owners in my opinion who don't care at all about the success or failure of their basketball team. My team the Blazers have one of the few right now - Jody Allen - who isn't super invested in the team's success and probably just needs to sell it. But we're one of the exceptions. Owners like Jeanie Buss or Mark Cuban or Michael Jordan that are very much invested in the day to day operations of the team are much more common than the detached ownership of my team.
