Floyd Mayweather interested in buying the Clippers?

[DeadLikeMe]

wow. what a complete revisionist history. rationalized bullcrap at its finest.

absolutely pathetic floyd cum guzzling post.

The Jeremy Lin tweets were the only thing I can remember appearing on ESPN. The video didn't get anywhere near that coverage.

[Vasyl’s dad]

If you added up all the Showtime money in addition to all the purses from his past fights, he still wouldn't have enough to buy the Clippers, or any other NBA team for that matter.

These morons don't understand the difference between rich and wealthy. Floyd makes one NBA players salary. These NBA owners, pay multiple salaries, for fun.

[The Tase]

lmfaaooo at floyd showing some reporter his bank statement showing hundreds of millions lmfaaoo

watch what happens to floyd 5 years into his retirement from his last fight.

just watch. you floyd stans will know soon enough how much money floyd really has.

[The Tase]

The Jeremy Lin tweets were the only thing I can remember appearing on ESPN. The video didn't get anywhere near that coverage.

smdh....

more revisionist history.

you're wrong btw. his youtube racist rant video was talked about on espn.

[badass316]

Floyd's rant was like 4-5 years ago and I don't think anyone really cared outside of boxing. You're comparing something that is all over the media for 2-3 days already to a wannabe youtube video from years ago. The rebranding of the Nets with Jay-Z has entirely revamped the image of them as a little brother team. Since we are just wildly speculating what the NBA owners would do anyway, I'm pretty sure the NBA would jump at the chance to rebrand another redheaded stepchild team in the Clippers with the flair of the whole "Money" persona.

You don't think CNN, Fox, or any other media outlets won't pull that youtube video if in fact the NBA allowed him to be part of a new ownership group? Come on.

Completely disagree with Jay's "rebranding" of the team. He did aboslutely nothing for the nets except for show up to games with Beyonce with floor seats. This new re-branding of the Nets if more of a testament to their new owner, the russian billionaire whose willing to reach into his deep pockets to make the Nets relevant.

I don't know if you've been following the Clippers the past 2-3 years but they're not the "red-headed step child" of the NBA. They've set franchise records in wins the past 2 years and is among the more popular teams in the league thanks to Griffin, Paul, DJ, etc. As far as I'm concerned Lob City is not itching for a "Money" makeover.

[badass316]

A number that was fairly accurate as appose to being worth billions. The point of my original post.

You can disagree to such but it doesn't change the fact that it's moot to my original post. Clearly.

I think you greatly misunderstood the poster you initially quoted then. He never said the Clips were worth billions either. He stated that you needed to be a billionaire to be the sole owner of an NBA franchise, which is more or less accurate in today's age.

As far as your initial stab at the Clippers worth, you were nowhere close to being accurate. You said 300 million when they are worth twice that.

You can think its moot even when its not. I didn't make the backhanded comment about Floyd's ability to be part of an NBA ownership given his shady history, you did. I merely responded to it in disagreement.

[DeadLikeMe]

You don't think CNN, Fox, or any other media outlets won't pull that youtube video if in fact the NBA allowed him to be part of a new ownership group? Come on.

Completely disagree with Jay's "rebranding" of the team. He did aboslutely nothing for the nets except for show up to games with Beyonce with floor seats. This new re-branding of the Nets if more of a testament to their new owner, the russian billionaire whose willing to reach into his deep pockets to make the Nets relevant.

I don't know if you've been following the Clippers the past 2-3 years but they're not the "red-headed step child" of the NBA. They've set franchise records in wins the past 2 years and is among the more popular teams in the league thanks to Griffin, Paul, DJ, etc. As far as I'm concerned Lob City is not itching for a "Money" makeover.

I really don't think they would at all. The sale of a professional sports franchise isn't something the regular news networks would discuss at length at all. Sterling is going to get like a 1 or 2 year suspension and by then everyone will have forgotten. The Bucks were just sold like last week. By the time it would take to oust Sterling, look at bids, have the owners vote, etc... everyone will have long forgotten the Sterling racism. Maybe if they voted today it would be an issue, but people aren't going to care about this Sterling stuff in a month. It would go completely under the radar if in a year and a half Floyd was a small part of some ownership group.

[L3TH4L]

These morons don't understand the difference between rich and wealthy. Floyd makes one NBA players salary. These NBA owners, pay multiple salaries, for fun.

Forbes list the Clippers value at $575 mill, Mayweather is rich but he hasn't made even half of that amount. He's a millionaire investing in a billion dollar franchise and would be broke within a single season.

[Vasyl’s dad]

I really don't think they would at all. The sale of a professional sports franchise isn't something the regular news networks would discuss at length at all. Sterling is going to get like a 1 or 2 year suspension and by then everyone will have forgotten. The Bucks were just sold like last week. By the time it would take to oust Sterling, look at bids, have the owners vote, etc... everyone will have long forgotten the Sterling racism. Maybe if they voted today it would be an issue, but people aren't going to care about this Sterling stuff in a month. It would go completely under the radar if in a year and a half Floyd was a small part of some ownership group.

This came out when you were still a gleam in your daddys eye.



Daily News Wire Services
POSTED: October 22, 1998
Marge Schott will soon sell her controlling share of the Cincinnati Reds under pressure from baseball's top officials, the Cincinnati Post reported yesterday.

Schott's two-year suspension from daily operation of the team, as punishment for remarks about Asians and working women, expired with the end of the World Series.

According to recent reports, baseball officials have been leaning toward extending her suspension so Reds managing executive John Allen can continue running the team.

Now, baseball officials are expected to announce Schott has signed a letter of intent to sell her interest in the Reds by the end of the year, the Post reported, citing unidentified sources.

The letter was being sent to baseball attorney Robert DuPuy, according to the Post. Baseball officials had indicated that Schott's suspension would be extended through the end of the Reds' partnership agreement (Dec. 31, 2000) for her business practices if she does not agree to sell her two general-partner shares, the newspaper said.

The agreement would end Schott's 14-year reign as Reds owner, which has included one World Series title, two suspensions for crude comments about ********** and a contentious relationship with the Reds' limited ownership partners.






By Houston Mitchell
April 28, 2014, 2:03 p.m.
Many people today are comparing Clippers owner Donald Sterling to former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott, who was banned from running the team in 1996 after several racist comments. Sterling is alleged to have made racist comments on a tape leaked to the website TMZ over the weekend.
Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent says there is no comparison ***8212; Sterling is worse than Schott.
"What she said was egregious, but what he said was probably worse," Vincent, 75, told Bloomberg News. "There's a question of where you draw the line. In this case with what this guy did and probably in Marge Schott's case, you're well over the line."

[badass316]

If you added up all the Showtime money in addition to all the purses from his past fights, he still wouldn't have enough to buy the Clippers, or any other NBA team for that matter.

I'm willing to bet $100 that even if you added up every cent of everything he had he wouldn't even have enough to be the majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. The least expensive franchise in the NBA for a cool price of $400 million.