The Official Off-Season NBA Thread

[addict4sneakers]

I guess living in NYC area I am a little ignorant to this. I've seen it with Cleveland, where else has there been a noticeable difference? That speaks to a bigger problem that goes way beyond sports but I'm curious of more examples

65k people stood outside to watch the bucks and another what 18k. Over 80k. They don’t all eat before the game. They all don’t go home after the game. Makes sense to have a restaurant or bar in the area. Young 20 something wants to live where it’s popping, they move in the area. Developers see an opportunity to build apartments. Grocery stores come. Construction jobs are created. Jobs are created.

So yeah Giannis is underpaid.

 

[getback]

Have the Wardell detractors arrived yet?

 

[clyde the glide]

65k people stood outside to watch the bucks and another what 18k. Over 80k. They don’t all eat before the game. They all don’t go home after the game. Makes sense to have a restaurant or bar in the area. Young 20 something wants to live where it’s popping, they move in the area. Developers see an opportunity to build apartments. Grocery stores come. Construction jobs are created. Jobs are created.

So yeah Giannis is underpaid.

Yeah but as a city you can't rely on that. Sure it's a plus when it happens everyone enjoys the winning and things that come with it like u listed but that's gotta be stircly a plus. If your city doesn't have enough jobs because a star athlete signs elsewhere you've got way bigger problems and that's a whole nother discussion.

 

[703 hwy]

Trickle down economics works right?

 

[dacomeup]

Y’all should look at @clyde the glide’s post history before going on pages long back and forths with him

 

[addict4sneakers]

Yeah but as a city you can't rely on that. Sure it's a plus when it happens everyone enjoys the winning and things that come with it like u listed but that's gotta be stircly a plus. If your city doesn't have enough jobs because a star athlete signs elsewhere you've got way bigger problems and that's a whole nother discussion.

Giannis is 26? 27? If I’m an apartment developer I’m looking to cash out at the peak. A 100 unit apartment building sold for $20Ms in Milwaukee. A 300 unit building would go for $75 Ms. developers don’t care about the long run or the city as a whole.

 

[lawdog1]

Y’all should look at @clyde the glide’s post history before going on pages long back and forths with him

Pretty sure he's one of the first people on NT that I put on ignore.

 

[lawdog1]

Unwashed?

 

[clyde the glide]

Giannis is 26? 27? If I’m an apartment developer I’m looking to cash out at the peak. A 100 unit apartment building sold for $20Ms in Milwaukee. A 300 unit building would go for $75 Ms. developers don’t care about the long run or the city as a whole.

Which is why those developers should be held in check somhow if something may not benefit the city in the long run. That's on the city as well if they allow something they know isn't for the best long term just to make a quick buck short term but like I said, that's a whole nother topic

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Pro athletes are by far the most overpaid profession. Watching sports has always been a good chunk of my life and still is but I cant deny this. You could pay these guys a fraction of what they make and they would still choose it over almost every other way to make a living. Just hard to see people not able to afford Healthcare, clothes, food, certain neighborhoods kept in certain conditions, while folks are given generational wealth to do something that contributes so little to society. Random rant over.

aepps20

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Y’all should look at @clyde the glide’s post history before going on pages long back and forths with him

Can someone aware me HIM JD617 storm2006

 

[addict4sneakers]

Which is why those developers should be held in check somhow if something may not benefit the city in the long run. That's on the city as well if they allow something they know isn't for the best long term just to make a quick buck short term but like I said, that's a whole nother topic

Yeah that isn’t how capitalism works. Sounds like that’s where your beef is

 

[clyde the glide]

Pretty sure he's one of the first people on NT that I put on ignore.

Yet u always have something to say when I post. Strange behavior. That ignore feature can't override your crush on me lol

 

[clyde the glide]

Yeah that isn’t how capitalism works. Sounds like that’s where your beef is

I'm pointing out that athletes benefit from it arguably the most.

 

[aepps20]

aepps20

No lies detected which is why I watch my local mining Olympics from my state of West Virginia

 

[lawdog1]

Wow. Just read that Rihanna is a billionaire now. She’s an NBA fan; she should put a group together and try and buy the Kings. I’d have more faith in her turning it around for them than current ownership.

 

[addict4sneakers]

I'm pointing out that athletes benefit from it arguably the most.

I just pointed out that they don’t

 

[antidope]

Athletes benefit from capitalism the most? Nah yo that is a crazy take.

 

[Based Jesus]

I know when you were typing this you thought this was a banger of a comeback

I can't believe I was mansplained to. I feel so dirty.

 

[RustyShackleford]

No lies detected which is why I watch my local mining Olympics from my state of West Virginia

Just noticed the Manchin avy

 

[P C H]

Don’t let us stay at 5 by the offs…

He’s coming. ****** know wassup

 

[addict4sneakers]

Makes sense for Kawhi to come back this year. West is wide open

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

2nd round exit

 

[antidope]

I feel like I've mentioned this before but I know a couple of people who own slices of sports teams, and the one that I know the "best" owns a piece of the Bucks. After they won the chip, his investment was worth more than 4X what he put in and he was basically getting ready to sell it, but ended up not doing it.

So yeah.... He benefits more from capitalism than the players on the Bucks most of whom aren't even on the roster and subsequently got to experience the feeling of winning a title, and he has made the combined salary of the roster several times over. He got a ring too.

 

[clyde the glide]

I feel like I've mentioned this before but I know a couple of people who own slices of sports teams, and the one that I know the "best" owns a piece of the Bucks. After they won the chip, his investment was worth more than 4X what he put in and he was basically getting ready to sell it, but ended up not doing it.

So yeah.... He benefits more from capitalism than the players on the Bucks most of whom aren't even on the roster and subsequently got to experience the feeling of winning a title, and he has made the combined salary of the roster several times over. He got a ring too.

But he's already operating at a completely different level when life put him in a position to be able to own a sports franchise. If the opportunity isn't there in sports he's getting it elsewhere. How else would athletes make what capitalism marketing and a bunch of other factors have afforded them the ability to make?