Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy L.A. Clippers

I really want this team to move out of L.A. I don't care where I just find it annoying that L.A has two basketball teams and their fan base is so annoying and such bandwagons. I prefer the team to move to Seattle because the Sonics were my second favorite team. But honestly I don't care where they go I just want this team to move out of L.A and move somewhere else.

 

He will run clipper like he run the Microsoft

 

Not sure I should try this but... This is a terrible post for the BBS, directed with an insult to a respected and sensible poster no less. And then you've posted the same content about four times in a row.

Get over yourself, shape up, or go post at an inferior BBS. There are plenty.

 

Stealing plays from other teams? Revamping the offense with an inferior scheme every six months? Making his players, like his programs, increasingly fat and immobile? :grin:

Or is that not what you meant?

 

Means Doc Rivers is out - introducing Coach ZUNE. Welcome to the social!

 

Their ratings shot up 55% once Doc Rivers came to town. My counter-argument for you is that they are one Chris Paul injury away from becoming the same Clippers of the last 10 years, with much lower TV ratings, $100M in annual revenue, $80M in salary, and an average Forbes evaluation of $300M.

But yes, perhaps their destiny is linked to the continuing decline of the sad, sad Lakers. And maybe Paul keeps up his stellar level of play.

 

My bad, but there's been worst post out there don't over react. But I really can't stand L.A having two basketball teams. And their fan base is really annoying. My bad though on that post.

 

All good and thanks for the response. And definitely: there have been worse posts, and LA's fanbase is pretty annoying.

But what JV posted is sadly true. You can't sink $2B (!) into a franchise, when it's only real value is TV-related in an enormous market, and move it to a much smaller market. Very sad. I'd really like Seattle to get another team, and I really think it should have been the Kings.

 

Yes you're both right. I've been thinking about it and yes you can't move a franchise with a huge market like that. They will lose a lot if they move to another city. That just sucks that Seattle is not getting an NBA team and we get to see the annoying L.A fan base for so many years.

 

The Lakers have had an incredible 50 year lucky streak with Wilt, Jabbar, Walton, West, and Kobe. But give them a decade of a declining, overpaid Kobe and mid-round pick futility and they will be the second team in LA.

 

Maybe the Sterlings sold to him knowing he will move. . .
their last SCREW YOU to the NBA

Rocket River

 

The person with knowledge of the deal said that any buyer would have to ensure the team remains in Los Angeles and be someone Shelly Sterling could work with if she decides to retain a small stake. An attorney representing Shelly Sterling declined to comment.
http://abc13.com/sports/steve-ballmer-frontrunner-to-buy-clippers-for-$2-billion/84560/

The team, under new ownership, would benefit from the boons expected in their next local cable contract and the N.B.A.’s next round of national deals. The new local and league contracts will start in the 2016-17 season.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/sports/basketball/ballmer-sterling-clippers.html

On Thursday, The Times reported that former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had bid $2 billion for the NBA franchise. If he ends up with the team at that price, it would be record figure for a basketball team and the second-highest price tag ever for a North American sports team behind Guggenheim's $2.1-billion purchase of the Dodgers.

Prime Ticket pays about $25 million per season for the Clippers, people with knowledge of the deal said. That pales in comparison to what the Lakers get from Time Warner Cable for their rights, which is $3 billion over 20 years, or an average of $150 million a season.

The Lakers are far more popular than the Clippers. Last season, the Lakers averaged a 2.15 household rating or 122,000 households per game despite a horrible year. The Clippers had a very strong season and only averaged a 1.25 rating or 71,000 households per game.

The Boston Celtics recently signed a new TV deal with Comcast for an average of $65 million a year, which may be a figure closer to what the Clippers could hope to achieve.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-clippers-tv-20140529-story.html

 

The Sonics need their own team IMO because they deserve their own, not some other cities team.

The fanbase in Los Angeles is not necessarily the same for both teams. You don't even hear from most Clippers fans, the real ones honestly because they watch just to enjoy basketball. As bad as this guy has been, they did field some exciting games throughout the 90s and always had top picks although they either did nothing with them or let them go for nothing at all.

Lakers fans are another story. Alot of them are the worst, they're insecure as heck, and of course everything is always about the past no matter how much they suck or how entitled they are to other teams player as if they're the only team in the league. That's annoying.

 

I doubt. I would look into Sterling's friends who own and run the war industry abroad that decide who lives and who dies. I believe one of those guys or as a group collectively own that title.

 

If she decides to retain a small stake, then, according to the NBA, the deal won't be accepted. All stakes in the Clips are supposed to be liquidated. No Sterlings allowed to retain shares.

Or will the league yield?

 

2 BILLION! How much did that b*stard profit off of being racist?

 

Damn....Sacramento Kings were sold for $534 million...I get the LA market and all, but how the heck are the Clippers close to being worth that much? Even with Paul and Griffin as the face of the franchise...

 

Even if Paul goes down, it only takes a few years to get over an injured franchise player if you have good management. The Clippers have been eternally bad because they mostly didn't have good management (or ownership). I don't know, maybe Ballmer will suck at it, but I have to think he's a pretty good executive even if he couldn't turn Microsoft around. Meanwhile, I have no confidence in the Lakers' current leadership to recover from the decline of Kobe Bryant, or anything else for that matter.

I'm not any more happy about it than you. I hate big market teams. And, I miss having a team in Seattle. But, we've got to be realistic about our expectations.

 

We all thought he'd get 1 billion for sure and that he was getting paid, but 2 billion. Holy damn. He'll have enough money for at least several generations of kids.

 

They aren't worth it.