Les has been a good owner. I recall in horror the old days of Charlie Thomas. Michael Jordan -though truly a great player wit hevery accolade known to man, would be a bad owner. The Landry's restaurant chain (disgusting excrement referred to as food) led by Tilman Fertitta would also be a bad owner IMO. A good freind who used to be a manager at the Grotto said Fertitta and a party of 15 ran a tab of $ 2300.00 which the manager was expected to copmp, and did not tip the servers one dime-classy huh? Sarver appears to be a real jerk in Phoenix. Why would anyone in their right mind not keep Brian Colangelo after drafting Marion, signing Stteve Nash, Drafting Amare, and hiring Antonini. I hope Les remains the owner- I know he says he loves winning.
Les has tremendous passion for the team. He wants to win another championship. But if he decides to sell it I hope it will be to someone who cares not only about winning but also about the city of Houston itself.
Yeah, but just think how cool it would be to have white tigers in the lobby of Toyota Center. He might also replace Clutch with a REAL bear!!
A MODEST PROPOSAL: ClutchFans BUYS the Rockets! Seventeen thousand members at $3000.oo each raises over $50,000,000.oo. I'm on board, how about you? Why not? I know some members are twelve or younger, but they could borrow from their parents. It would be like a mutual fund.
Nice speculation fodder. I don't buy it though. The main rationale given for this thinking is that Morey has more business experience vs. basketball with examples of things he's been brought into in the past. However it ignores any other analytical prowess or experience he brings to the table regarding personnel as in the Celtics Brian Scalabrine deal. It also conveniently ignores the analytical trend in personnel analysis in the NBA. Developing that competence is not something you just find off the street. I think it's safe to bet that Morey is being brought in for his analytical capability. To make the leap that his analytical ability is primarily for the purpose of selling the franchise is real stretch.
Can you give us some evidence that this is the case? I've seen the exact opposite in Les's actions since the mid-90's.
Unfortunately, I now live in NY and I gotta tell you guys that the NY Daily News and NY Post are garbage and are not even worth the paper they're printed on, if this was the NY Times I would trust it more, but the source is a step away from being a tabloid magazine so I would take this news with a huge grain of salt
The rumor's true, people. Our new owners are just waiting to announce the deal: http://www.dpworld.com/
What an obscene way to describe fish, especially when fish is a biblical food! How many Landry's Restaurants have you dined at?
Unless he (Corey) is the new owner's guy, that new owner wants him to get some hands-on experience in the driver's seat. That would actually be likely scenario.
I'm in, but where do we come up with the other $350,000,000? I don't know how seriously this article should be taken. There's some pretty glaring spelling errors, and while that's okay on a BBS, it makes me question a supposed "news source."
That would explain it then. I'm not familiar with New York publications, but it seemed very sketchy to me.
Once Congress hears that Rockets were getting into the hands of a state owned Arab multinational, they'd would nix the deal citing national security.
