Another Phoenix Suns Scandal (CEO affair with Mercury player)

[G R E Y]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

[garrick]

Somehow they found a way to sell the team to an even worse owner.

This is really on Adam Silver for forcing a mid season sale of the team that was rushed and Ishbia was throwing money around like an idiot which should have been a warning sign right from the start.

I never thought someone could be worse than Sarver yet here we are with Ishbia making the Suns a national embarrassment both on and off the court.

[-Luke-]

So Gilbert Arenas now works for the Suns security staff?

[Calvin Klein]

Thread turned into pure misogyny quite fast.

[jokeboy86]

Feel a little bad for her if true or not because in this climate the trolls and even other obnoxious media people will be relentless on her since she’s more public facing than him. I expect her to be off social media within a day or two. Again not saying she’s blameless if she’s a home wrecker but people will now try and devalue her career now

[jokeboy86]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

“The answer to all your questions is money”. Let’s be honest if not for those leaked calls, Sterling would still be owner. Stern had to have learned before about Sterling’s character (wasn’t like Elgin Baylor wasn’t vocal about it). Or look at the entire situation with Isaiah Thomas on the Knicks and other questionable and other problematic things off the court that Dolan has done. League also quietly swept that whole thing away about the conduct of some of the people who worked for Cuban as well.

It’s always funny to me when some of these pro sports commissioners try to get all high and mighty like they truly care about the morals and ethics of their owners and players. The NFL is even more fake than the NBA. Boxing is the only sport where the promoters, boxers, and others involved openly don’t care about their conduct and will still make fights regardless as long as the fighters can generate money. The most egregious example of this was the Nevada court system literally deciding to let Mayweather fight before he was to report to jail for DV because how “important” his fights were economically for the city of Las Vegas.

[Calvin Klein]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

“The answer to all your questions is money”. Let’s be honest if not for those leaked calls, Sterling would still be owner. Stern had to have learned before about Sterling’s character (wasn’t like Elgin Baylor wasn’t vocal about it). Or look at the entire situation with Isaiah Thomas on the Knicks and other questionable and other problematic things off the court that Dolan has done. League also quietly swept that whole thing away about the conduct of some of the people who worked for Cuban as well.

It’s always funny to me when some of these pro sports commissioners try to get all high and mighty like they truly care about the morals and ethics of their owners and players. The NFL is even more fake than the NBA. Boxing is the only sport where the promoters, boxers, and others involved openly don’t care about their conduct and will still make fights regardless as long as the fighters can generate money. The most egregious example of this was the Nevada court system literally deciding to let Mayweather fight before he was to report to jail for DV because how “important” his fights were economically for the city of Las Vegas.

I (and lots of other regular people) knew about Sterling years before the scandal. It was common knowledge amongst NBA people. They only forced him to sell because of the leaked calls which made it to mainstream news.

There's been talk about Ishbia's businesses' bad environment for a while. Every time he talks he sounds and looks like he is super coked up. He is best friends with Isiah Thomas and was about to make him part of the front office from day one until the news hit twitter and the backlash made him change his mind (he is basically there but no officially).

[kwajo]

I bet that was a lucrative hustle for her.

Having sex with ugly men who have complete control over her career?

Lol who knows if it's a control thing. First thing that came to my head was she was probably milking money off him.

But I wouldn't doubt this turns into her being the victim, usually does.

Your very first thought was to assume that the woman's motives were about money? Come on man.

[God Squad]

So what's the scandal?

A CEO having sex with an employee.

Not to mention adultery seeing he's married.

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Not to mention she's a current WNBA player who used to work for him (She plays in Indiana now)

[kenwood3333]

So the story here is the guy who got fired want to take revenge of his former employer by exposing internal rumours.

[chilluminati]

Having sex with ugly men who have complete control over her career?

Lol who knows if it's a control thing. First thing that came to my head was she was probably milking money off him.

But I wouldn't doubt this turns into her being the victim, usually does.

Your very first thought was to assume that the woman's motives were about money? Come on man.

I never spoke of motives, don't put words in my mouth. Who knows why she was doing it, I just assumed one possibility. Come on man.

[G R E Y]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

“The answer to all your questions is money”. Let’s be honest if not for those leaked calls, Sterling would still be owner. Stern had to have learned before about Sterling’s character (wasn’t like Elgin Baylor wasn’t vocal about it). Or look at the entire situation with Isaiah Thomas on the Knicks and other questionable and other problematic things off the court that Dolan has done. League also quietly swept that whole thing away about the conduct of some of the people who worked for Cuban as well.

It’s always funny to me when some of these pro sports commissioners try to get all high and mighty like they truly care about the morals and ethics of their owners and players. The NFL is even more fake than the NBA. Boxing is the only sport where the promoters, boxers, and others involved openly don’t care about their conduct and will still make fights regardless as long as the fighters can generate money. The most egregious example of this was the Nevada court system literally deciding to let Mayweather fight before he was to report to jail for DV because how “important” his fights were economically for the city of Las Vegas.

I (and lots of other regular people) knew about Sterling years before the scandal. It was common knowledge amongst NBA people. They only forced him to sell because of the leaked calls which made it to mainstream news.

There's been talk about Ishbia's businesses' bad environment for a while. Every time he talks he sounds and looks like he is super coked up. He is best friends with Isiah Thomas and was about to make him part of the front office from day one until the news hit twitter and the backlash made him change his mind (he is basically there but no officially).

Well Silver works for the owners despite powers to invoke penalties for various breaches, etc.

It just defies logic that in forcing some owners out they're replaced with hot messes, in other words, more of the same the league just rid itself of.

Is there a shortage of rich people who are simply quietly wealthy? It's not like we expect all the other owners are angels. But in the ownership replacements who got pushed on out on Clips (Ballmer, just a weirdo so like best of the lot lol), Suns (Ishbia, on full display), and Kings (Ranadive, as intrusive as he is incompetent in running an NBA team), Mavs (Adelson/Dumont, again, on full display) is this the best the league could do in finding less problematic replacements? Or it is that you need teams that can be swindled by others for a while till they get smart?

[dsg2003mach1]

Hidden amongst all the affair and retaliation stuff was that the police found there was smuggling of weapons into the arena? I want more info on that part.

thing I saw the other day said they failed security tests - plain clothes officers were able to get into the building with knives, I believe one even had a gun.

[LAvision]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

Silver is a complete clown.

[Myth]

Hidden amongst all the affair and retaliation stuff was that the police found there was smuggling of weapons into the arena? I want more info on that part.

thing I saw the other day said they failed security tests - plain clothes officers were able to get into the building with knives, I believe one even had a gun.

Ah, so just poor security. It read as if the CEO or somebody connected to the teams were bringing weapons in.

[mastermixer]

Feel a little bad for her if true or not because in this climate the trolls and even other obnoxious media people will be relentless on her since she’s more public facing than him. I expect her to be off social media within a day or two. Again not saying she’s blameless if she’s a home wrecker but people will now try and devalue her career now

Never understood the “home wrecker” tittle in this context.

If he’s married and she’s single why is it her fault that he’s cheating on his wife?

He’s the one with the duty to be faithful to his wife and protect his home. He’s the home wrecker.

[G R E Y]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

Silver is a complete clown.

He works for the owners. They vote new owners in. It's a problem beyond him even to whatever extent it may include him.

[LAvision]

What's with NBA replacing troubled/troublesome owners with problematic ones?

Silver is a complete clown.

He works for the owners. They vote new owners in. It's a problem beyond him even to whatever extent it may include him.

No, Silver and his crew working at the NBA HQ are suppose to be vetting these new potential owners with a fine comb and then oking them if their background checks, then to be voted on by the owners for approval. Instead they been doing the complete opposite. We got 2 new questionable owners in Rockets and Mavs who have shady ties to the casino industry, this Suns owner who seems completely delusional, and lets not forget that clown show in Minnesota where ARod got approved to buy a team even though hes broke (in term of owners money). Who knows who will be next to be oked, maybe a cartel boss.

[azcatz11]

Silver is a complete clown.

He works for the owners. They vote new owners in. It's a problem beyond him even to whatever extent it may include him.

No, Silver and his crew working at the NBA HQ are suppose to be vetting these new potential owners with a fine comb and then oking them if their background checks, then to be voted on by the owners for approval. Instead they been doing the complete opposite. We got 2 new questionable owners in Rockets and Mavs who have shady ties to the casino industry, this Suns owner who seems completely delusional, and lets not forget that clown show in Minnesota where ARod got approved to buy a team even though hes broke (in term of owners money). Who knows who will be next to be oked, maybe a cartel boss.

Silver is a clown but he signed an incredible TV Deal. The other Wolves owner is worth around $3B which puts him in the median as far as net worth for owners.

Seems like you are relishing in the drama of this story for some reason. It's not a huge deal

[Myth]

Feel a little bad for her if true or not because in this climate the trolls and even other obnoxious media people will be relentless on her since she’s more public facing than him. I expect her to be off social media within a day or two. Again not saying she’s blameless if she’s a home wrecker but people will now try and devalue her career now

Never understood the “home wrecker” tittle in this context.

If he’s married and she’s single why is it her fault that he’s cheating on his wife?

He’s the one with the duty to be faithful to his wife and protect his home. He’s the home wrecker.

Yeah, I’ve never understood people getting cheated on going after the 3rd person rather than the person who actually betrayed them (unless it is a close friend, then it is both who betrayed them). Plus, he’s both married and the one with power in the situation.