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[ruh-oh] Restaurateur Tilman Fertitta Desperately Seeks Cash Infusion For His Hospitality Empire

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by iJHolmes, Apr 9, 2020.

  1. Easy

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    Basketball reasons!
     
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    Like two people
    Most of the people complaining aren’t in America
    How are they boycotting rainforest cafe?
    All restaurants are closed because of the virus
     
  3. tinman

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    Less than the people who cared how ugly the rockets uniforms were with Les. Which we know was true cause every time they did a throwback people would buy them up like crazy .

    first of all, most people in Houston care more about the Texans
    And most people don’t know all the restaurants Fertitta owns

    People who don’t know Houston don’t know there’s a crap load of restaurants and lots of people in Katy love chains
     
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    If they did a poll of strictly Houston sports fans
    On who they want out
    Tilman or Bill O’Brien

    bill would win like by 100 to 1 ratio
     
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    Houston Mackets
     
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    Houston turkey leg huts
     
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    The til smirk
     
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    For next 10 years,
    The only concern is that Tilman is not going to do whatever it takes - at all cost.

    As an owner of west second largest city, he may not be able to compete with Clippers and GSW.
     
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    Silver would be very hands off and let Morey do what he wants. Basically their goal would be to sell the franchise not make basketball decisions. This was done with the Clippers and worked out well for them.

    Best case scenario is that an ownership group could be put together to buy the team.
     
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    He reminds me of that charlatan Kenneth Copeland scumbag
     
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    I think Silver would take the opportunity to “settle accounts” with our GM, but I certainly don’t feel like revisiting it all now. Leave it at hell no. Keep the Rockets out of the hands of the league. Tilman would sell the team before it came to that anyway, in my opinion. Why wouldn’t he? What possible benefit would it give Fertitta to let the team fall into the hands of Silver and the league? I can’t think of any.
     
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    Didn't the same thing happen with the Pelicans a few years back ? They might have been the Hornets at the time.
     
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    I know we are most concerned about our beloved franchise, but imagine for a moment that more than just 1 franchise is being hit hard by this crisis.

    Silver would be having not 1, not 2 but several franchises to hand over to new owners.
     
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    I am now 90% certain that tinman is directly related somehow to Tilman. There's no way a Rocket fan, especially one who has been a fan this long, would support Tilman like this and right after he shat on a bunch of Houstonians too. He has done every shitty thing an owner can possibly do.

    It's something tinman could easily be indifferent about. He could be on the right side of history like he is with the Lin saga. This defense of Tilman is preposterous, stubbornly diversionary by constantly invoking long-gone Les.

    I've put him on ignore and I hope there's a mass wave of ignores. To a Rockets fan like me, his behavior is treasonous.

    It's sad because tinman is part of the legend of this place, but it's just disgusting at this point, I can't even bare to read it let alone bother to respond.
     
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    I might need to research some, but Fertitta could be the only owner that is so massively leveraged and needs a healthy profit every season to apply against the debt load.

    For other owners, a team is an expensive toy.

    Fertitta is treating the team as a business.
     
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    Defending Tilman = Anti-Houston Rockets...
     
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    He does not have the vision, not enough liquidity and fearing his businesses losing out on profits all the time.

    He also does not have patience.
     
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    Tinman is likely a media guy who lives in the past.
     
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    Dude Cuban just reference Tillman on CNBC??
     
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    What was said?
     

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