05-30-2014, 11:12 PM
silvarios wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
Ballmer saying he does not intend to move the team is just as trustworthy as the guy from Oklamhoma City that bought the Sonics and said he would keep the team in Seattle.
It's not a 2 Billion dollar team in Seattle.
The Clippers, long a laughing stock in the league and generally only accidentally competitive, that doesn't even own their own stadium is worth $2 billion? He should have bought the Sonics and kept them in Seattle. He probably could have paid $350 million and put another $500 million in a stadium and still come out ahead. I don't get. The Clippers have a nice core now and there was a feeding frenzy because the rest of the world finally realized what people who follow basketball already knew about Donald Sterling, but this is just stupid expensive.
They're worth more than 2 Billion (I predicted 2 + billion as soon as Sterling was banned). The NBA TV agreement is ending after 2015 (I believe) The new one will easily be triple the existing agreements. The NBA has become the most popular sport in the world. It's rare when a franchise is available (just 30 of 'em for x amount of billionaires). It's also in Los Angeles.
The NBA is becoming the most popular league and sport in the history of the earth.
Why soccer should fear the NBA
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/footba...ear.world/
NBA's popularity spanning the globe with digital reach
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/r...876679.php