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Moderators Popular Post lethalweapon3 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Moderators Popular Post Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 While I do appreciate all these SuperFriends and Avengers and Justice Leagues banding together, I'm with a lot of folks that won't be satisfied with one fractured group handing over responsibility to another. As long as there's one gal/guy owning at least, say, 75% of the franchise, I'll be happy. ~lw3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnice Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Hammer hammer I am hamner, they put me in the mix! Been watchin too much Vince and Shaq on NBA tv.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Moderators PSSSHHHRRR87 Posted January 12, 2015 Moderators Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 While I do appreciate all these SuperFriends and Avengers and Justice Leagues banding together, I'm with a lot of folks that won't be satisfied with one fractured group handing over responsibility to another. As long as there's one gal/guy owning at least, say, 75% of the franchise, I'll be happy. ~lw3I agree. It's like a fry cook trying to buy Prada. If don't have the checkbook to buy the whole deal, then just don't even try. i don't mind small investors, but all these minority owners are just make for too many cooks in the kitchen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators lethalweapon3 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Moderators Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 H_NDY P__RN_M_ S__T_DJ_ "Would you like to buy a vowel?" http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12152838/hank-aaron-atlanta-hawks-bidders Sources told ESPN.com that the group is spearheaded by Memphis Grizzlies minority owner and vice chairman Steve Kaplan, Indonesian billionaire sports and media magnates Erick Thohir and Handy Poernomo Soetedjo and former Grizzlies CEO Jason Levien, who is the current managing general partner of DC United in MLS. The deep-pocketed consortium, sources say, also includes a select and diverse group of prominent investors, including Aaron and other Atlantans. ~lw3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hawkdude55 Posted January 12, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 NO NO NO!!! Levien is a cancer and has run two NBA franchises into the ground. Memphis has a 25 person ownership group...that is NOT what we need here in Atlanta! I appreciate everything Hank has accomplished in his life but how does that qualify him to run a basketball team? Indonesian billionaires and hedge fund guys don't need a couple million from an ex-baseball player, this is a pure play to try and win over fan sentiment in Atlanta. I'm not buying it. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I don't trust Levien that he wouldn't try and make changes to put "his" guys in. It doesn't look like he's ever worked with Bud, Ferry, or Koonin before and right now those are the right guys for this organization. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member cam1218 Posted January 12, 2015 Premium Member Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) While I do appreciate all these SuperFriends and Avengers and Justice Leagues banding together, I'm with a lot of folks that won't be satisfied with one fractured group handing over responsibility to another. As long as there's one gal/guy owning at least, say, 75% of the franchise, I'll be happy. ~lw3 Yeah I agree, so many names being tossed around. I don't want a game of horse being the deciding factor in where our money is spent. The two good things I see are we have a lot of players who haven't really been high on the Hawks suddenly wanting to own us. We also have ATL guys like Hank wanting to be involved. Both of those factors help keep me confident we stay in Atlanta and that our team is starting to get a lot of respect. Hopefully all of these names basically morph into one and we wind up in good hands and a big wallet. Edited January 12, 2015 by cam1218 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 NO NO NO!!! Levien is a cancer and has run two NBA franchises into the ground. Memphis has a 25 person ownership group...that is NOT what we need here in Atlanta! I appreciate everything Hank has accomplished in his life but how does that qualify him to run a basketball team? Indonesian billionaires and hedge fund guys don't need a couple million from an ex-baseball player, this is a pure play to try and win over fan sentiment in Atlanta. I'm not buying it. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I don't trust Levien that he wouldn't try and make changes to put "his" guys in. It doesn't look like he's ever worked with Bud, Ferry, or Koonin before and right now those are the right guys for this organization. Yup. And I've talked about Levien before:http://hawksquawk.net/community/topic/399878-former-griz-ceo-jason-levien-interested-in-buying-hawks/ He is baaaaaaaaad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBASupes Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Aaron is too old and he's just a figurehead for the group. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post benhillboy Posted January 12, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I'm willing to picket and protest any clearly awful candidate. The fans cannot allow anyone to mess this up before it really gets started. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBASupes Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 NO NO NO!!! Levien is a cancer and has run two NBA franchises into the ground. Memphis has a 25 person ownership group...that is NOT what we need here in Atlanta! I appreciate everything Hank has accomplished in his life but how does that qualify him to run a basketball team? Indonesian billionaires and hedge fund guys don't need a couple million from an ex-baseball player, this is a pure play to try and win over fan sentiment in Atlanta. I'm not buying it. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I don't trust Levien that he wouldn't try and make changes to put "his" guys in. It doesn't look like he's ever worked with Bud, Ferry, or Koonin before and right now those are the right guys for this organization. Yep, this is clearly a push to get public support when Hank probably has like 3.5% share in the ownership group. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonkers Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 No more bad ownerships 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtmcgirt Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I'll ask some of the DC United people I know about them. What I can say already is that they've let the team meander along because the financial part of playing MLS games in RFK has hurt them. But they've got a new stadium on the way and they win when the money is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB21 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 While I do appreciate all these SuperFriends and Avengers and Justice Leagues banding together, I'm with a lot of folks that won't be satisfied with one fractured group handing over responsibility to another. As long as there's one gal/guy owning at least, say, 75% of the franchise, I'll be happy. ~lw3 You do realize that there are maybe 3-4 owners in the entire NBA that own 75% or more of their franchise? This particular group has two billionaires in Erick Thohir and Handy Poernomo Soetedjo backing them. Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien are the lead dogs. Kaplan currently owns about 14% of the Grizzlies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB21 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I agree with the consternation over Jason Levien, though I would like to find out why it seems like he rubs some people the wrong way. In Memphis, I think he rubbed some the wrong way when he brought in Hollinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrReality Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Curious about how the commish views this group given they have some history with the NBA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNorthCydeRises Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Levien will make Gearon look like a saint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB21 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/5/19/5731858/memphis-grizzlies-front-office-resigned-robert-pera It looks like Jason is the guy that put Hollinger and Joerger into place in Memphis. I'm curious as to what happened between he and Pera that caused him to resign. Was it all due to Pera dismissing Stu Lash? I will say this. This guy has a checkered past, but Memphis is A LOT better off now than what they were under Wallace/Hollins. They are smarter in their approach to how they get things done, and right now, they look like the 2nd best team in the Western Conference. There is always more to the story as well. http://www.grizzlybearblues.com/2014/5/19/5731876/trouble-in-memphis-lash-dismissed-levien-to-resign There was, according to Chris Vernon of 92.9 ESPN in Memphis, a real clash involving Levien and Pera over the dismissal of Assistant GM Stu Lash. Mincberg, mentioned above, is now the lawyer for Robert Pera and is possibly using this connection to leverage his way into a larger role in basketball operations. Vernon confirmed on his radio show that both Lash and Levien are indeed gone from the Memphis Grizzlies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB21 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 The other interesting thing here is that Steve Kaplan is part owner in the Grizzlies. He owns about 14% of the Grizzlies. If he is willing to be in this group with Levien, he must not have an issue with what Levien did in Memphis. His issue could be more with Robert Pera, the lead owner there. What I'm seeing here is that Levien is an analytics guy, and he may be getting some blow back from NBA traditionalists, such as Doug Collins in Philadelphia, because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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