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WhyteRyce posted:Because Steve Ballmer is paying a ridiculous $2B sum for a team because of it's location and publicly acknowledging his actions with anyone who interviews him. It's not at all like Clay Bennett. If he wanted to pay $2B for a team in Seattle he would have paid $2B for the Kings. Balmer has made attempts to move teams before and the Clippers seem easy to move except for being expensive. Mostly, hypotheticals are fun to talk about. I agree, its really unlikely he'd move but it's kinda fun to talk about.
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Politicalrancor posted:I feel like San Diego is a viable option, but so is Riverside which, loving lol. I'd love it but its garbage. There's a nice arena in Ontario . . .
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May 31, 2014 03:53
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Lockback posted:Balmer has made attempts to move teams before and the Clippers seem easy to move except for being expensive. Mostly, hypotheticals are fun to talk about. I agree, its really unlikely he'd move but it's kinda fun to talk about.
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May 31, 2014 03:54
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I've never lived in Seattle but the way people describe it I wouldn't want to live there if I didn't have a great job there and Ballmer no longer has that issue.
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May 31, 2014 03:56
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It's great if you hate the sun, like all goons But you'd have to live near Seahawks fans
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May 31, 2014 03:57
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He didn't buy the Clippers for $2b to move them out of the 2nd biggest media market. If that was his plan he could have just bought the Bucks for a quarter of that price and moved them in a couple years when the new arena doesn't pass.
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May 31, 2014 04:00
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Rick posted:There's a nice arena in Ontario . . . where will the lakers play their travel pre season games then?
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May 31, 2014 04:02
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I just worry that godforsaken hellhole Inland Empire might actually get something nice
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May 31, 2014 04:47
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Politicalrancor posted:where will the lakers play their travel pre season games then? In Hawaii or the Forum where they belong.
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May 31, 2014 04:59
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As a clipper fan living in san diego, I know that San Diego has zero chance of someday getting the Clips again. Our fans aren't very good at supporting teams. We hardly sell out anything. Even the chargers black out when they're decent and they play 8 games a season. The padres are a bad team with a great ballpark and the cheapest tickets in baseball and they can barely get 13,000 fans midweek...
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May 31, 2014 07:12
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Honestly I think this latest twist is just what it appears to be. Shelly got the lay of the land from a non-octogenarian lawyer, got the medical tests back, nodded thoughtfully, and finally put the dagger in. He'll realize it when him and his similarly fossilized buddy get dismissed and ordered to pay costs, which will happen pretty drat fast because without even a vote from the board of governors he doesn't even have much of a claim anymore. His beef is with his family trust now, not the NBA.
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thompson posted:As a clipper fan living in san diego, I know that San Diego has zero chance of someday getting the Clips again. Our fans aren't very good at supporting teams. We hardly sell out anything. Even the chargers black out when they're decent and they play 8 games a season. The padres are a bad team with a great ballpark and the cheapest tickets in baseball and they can barely get 13,000 fans midweek... There's no major or semi-mid corps to buy box seats. And too many transplants/retirees with money who maintain hometown allegiances and spend it in their home states; military $ and the trickle down doesn't really get spent in ways that can support anything relevant to an NBA team, too many people in town for only a few years... No basketball in SD until there's a different economy, or the NBA decides to take Mexico seriously.
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May 31, 2014 07:34
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The Tijuana Clippers would own bones
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Redgrendel2001 posted:There's no major or semi-mid corps to buy box seats. And too many transplants/retirees with money who maintain hometown allegiances and spend it in their home states; military $ and the trickle down doesn't really get spent in ways that can support anything relevant to an NBA team, too many people in town for only a few years... No basketball in SD until there's a different economy, or the NBA decides to take Mexico seriously.
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May 31, 2014 13:16
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Not to mention, who's going to build a new arena in SD? The taxpayers certainly aren't, they're struggling to agree on funding for a new Chargers stadium after footing the bill for Petco.
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May 31, 2014 20:20
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Put it on the bay.
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May 31, 2014 21:16
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Put the Clippers on a retired aircraft carrier and sail them around the coast of the Americas all season long.
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Quest For Glory II posted:They'd need an arena developer but if there's anything Ballmer can find it's developers developers developers developers lol this isn't getting enough love
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May 31, 2014 21:39
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Rick posted:Put the Clippers on a retired aircraft carrier and sail them around the coast of the Americas all season long. 41 Carrier Classics? Sign me up.
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Rick posted:Put the Clippers on a retired aircraft carrier and sail them around the coast of the Americas all season long. As long as you power the carrier with an enormous water wheel.
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May 31, 2014 22:17
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Just use Chris Paul tornado flops
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May 31, 2014 22:30
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So apparently V. Stiviano hates blacks too. Shocker.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Ballmer is willing to drop 2Bs because of the TV money coming in, both the league-wide and especially the local deal. He'll be looking for Dodgers money and if the current status quo remains he might get it. All of that renders arena money moot and once the current lease agreement is up he can threaten to move to Seattle unless they get their own place. I wouldn't say never. I don't think anyone expected the Winnipeg Jets to come back. But it's not going to be in the next five, and probably not in the next ten. At some point the NBA will expand two more teams if all the teams remain profitable enough that relocation doesn't become an option again. They'll just take it really slow.
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Niwrad posted:He didn't buy the Clippers for $2b to move them out of the 2nd biggest media market. If that was his plan he could have just bought the Bucks for a quarter of that price and moved them in a couple years when the new arena doesn't pass. This was from a while ago but Balmer tried to do that exact thing: http://blog.seattlepi.com/sonics/2014/05/30/report-steve-ballmer-chris-hansen-made-bid-to-move-milwaukee-bucks-to-seattle/
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Lockback posted:This was from a while ago but Balmer tried to do that exact thing: That is surprisingly kind of Herb. Shame the fanbase really doesn't care. CharlestheHammer fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:That is surprisingly kind of Herb.
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Rick posted:Put the Clippers on a retired aircraft carrier and sail them around the coast of the Americas all season long. This is not the worst idea I ever heard. cravius posted:So apparently V. Stiviano hates blacks too. Shocker. Wuht? "They Do Stupid poo poo like buy rims" Twat Nosferatu fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Since V doesn't own any basketball teams I don't really care what stupid opinions she has.
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uh her meal ticket is getting 2 billion dollars, you don't think she wants to get in his bad graces do you?
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shiksa posted:uh her meal ticket is getting 2 billion dollars, you don't think she wants to get in his bad graces do you? Hell I'm expecting her to do Kramers stand up routine just to ensure Sterling's approval.
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Sterling says hosed up racist poo poo and he is the most hated man in America. Golddigger says the same thing and yall think it's somehow defensible because she's leeching off his wealth and must maintain her "income stream"?
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cravius posted:Sterling says hosed up racist poo poo and he is the most hated man in America. Golddigger says the same thing and yall think it's somehow defensible because she's leeching off his wealth and must maintain her "income stream"? Take a deep breath and think it through. This is an ad hominem attack on the source of this information. No one is condoning hers or Sterling's racism. People are only pointing out that Sterling's is a bit more deplorable. (Although hers is almost surreal.) Any attack on her being a bigot is 100% totally irrelevant and is actually just trying to undermine the notion that Sterling is a bigot by undermining the source.
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You're right cravius, V Stiviano should be forced to sell her NBA team No but for real if you can't see how a mixed-race person saying racist poo poo against her own race is more worthy of empathy than an ultra-rich white guy then what's even going on inside your mind
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Mornacale posted:You're right cravius, V Stiviano should be forced to sell her NBA team Heck, she should be prevented from ever buying a sports team. Not even an Arena Football team. She is literally worse than Gene Simmons.
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Mornacale posted:You're right cravius, V Stiviano should be forced to sell her NBA team So basically she gets a pass
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BIZORT posted:So basically she gets a pass More like she's not important enough to matter. If some random person says racist stuff, sure that's bad, but it doesn't have anything to do with Donald Sterling.
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prefect posted:More like she's not important enough to matter. If some random person says racist stuff, sure that's bad, but it doesn't have anything to do with Donald Sterling. I understand that but that's not the way he was going. White male says x and it's deplorable. Someone else says x and we should feel empathy for her. Maybe assholes say stupid poo poo
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BIZORT posted:Maybe assholes say stupid poo poo 
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I'm not white so start a charity for me
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I just don't care enough about her to be mad
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