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WA33, love the fact that you referred to them as the 'Oklahoma Bobcats'. They are the Charlotte Bobcats, but your very minor error is very forgivable because: One, the league sucks so bad and, two, that franchise has done almost nothing to standout since it entered the NBA back in 2004.
I try not to listen to black neo-con Stephen A. Smiff on ESPN radio much...but I have made an exception in recent months. He's clearly on the owners side and keeps taking phone calls from angry black guys about the lockout. Well anyway, one brother called recently and asked about the NBA players starting their own league?
He responded by saying something like 'many of these guys can't live week to week because they spend cash on stupid stuff, so how can they own a team'? He went on to say Michael Jordan (the richest NBA player ever?) doesn't really 'own the Bobcats'....it's Bank of America and others that own the team. He only put in $30 mill. and it's losing so much money on his investment that he can't even pay off his loans. Smiff suggested he might even be happy if the league wiped out the entire season so he doesn't have to pay the salaries. With this, I can imagine that the arena is bleeding money.The league is awful. Again, if most these teams did not get charity from ESPN and sponsors (like the WNBA) this league would be just like it was in the mid-1980's, perhaps worse.
By the way, when the Charlotte Hornets first formed they seemed fairly white friendly (1988) with Rex Chapman, Kelly Tripuka and others and would draw over 20,000 per game...far cry from the all-black Bobcats, who play in front of friends and family that get in free and a few thousand DWF's that actually pay to watch this mess -- sort of like the WNBA's defunct Charlotte Sting did?
PS: Some good news for Jordan and the few Bobcat fans:
http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_the_nba/2011/10/new-revenue-sharing-big-for-bobcats.html
I try not to listen to black neo-con Stephen A. Smiff on ESPN radio much...but I have made an exception in recent months. He's clearly on the owners side and keeps taking phone calls from angry black guys about the lockout. Well anyway, one brother called recently and asked about the NBA players starting their own league?
He responded by saying something like 'many of these guys can't live week to week because they spend cash on stupid stuff, so how can they own a team'? He went on to say Michael Jordan (the richest NBA player ever?) doesn't really 'own the Bobcats'....it's Bank of America and others that own the team. He only put in $30 mill. and it's losing so much money on his investment that he can't even pay off his loans. Smiff suggested he might even be happy if the league wiped out the entire season so he doesn't have to pay the salaries. With this, I can imagine that the arena is bleeding money.The league is awful. Again, if most these teams did not get charity from ESPN and sponsors (like the WNBA) this league would be just like it was in the mid-1980's, perhaps worse.
By the way, when the Charlotte Hornets first formed they seemed fairly white friendly (1988) with Rex Chapman, Kelly Tripuka and others and would draw over 20,000 per game...far cry from the all-black Bobcats, who play in front of friends and family that get in free and a few thousand DWF's that actually pay to watch this mess -- sort of like the WNBA's defunct Charlotte Sting did?
PS: Some good news for Jordan and the few Bobcat fans:
http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_the_nba/2011/10/new-revenue-sharing-big-for-bobcats.html