The last card Bennett had to play was the Vegas card. Stern swatted
that down. Now, he has a team that could cost him 450 mil if it
leaves, making it a very long time before he would have to wait for
the NBA market too grow to the point that he could get a return on
that investment, higher sale price. he really could only get more
than 450 mil if the team was going to a larger media market, not a
smaller one. He really has to make it work here, or sell if he wants
to make the business transaction of buying the team for 350 mil make
sense.
I think that it iis interesting that it was mentioned in Frank's
story that the effort to get an arena has cost Bennett 10 million.
Sounds like it is part of a laundry list he can point to when
selling. He's not taking a loss, and he's going to want that 10 mil
back on top of it.
Brian Robinson is going to give Frank Hughes a lesson in journalism?
Being an advocate is one thing, what Robinson is does is beyond
advocacy. What Robinson doesn't know is that being a journalist
doesn't mean you have to be a schill for the subject you are
reporting on, in fact, that can get you fired, and in some states you
get jail time. Supporting something with positive words and stories
is one thing, being part of a non-profit advocacy group is another.
It's fine for a blogger, but it out of bounds for a beat reporter, a
journalist.
Robinson's unhappiness with Frank's timing of including the Karen
Bryant wanting to buy the Storm rumor just shows what Brian doesn't
know, you tell a story when general interest in a subject is highest.
Reporting a rumor involving the Storm on opening night is when you do
want to report it. Frank's job isn't to "protect" the Sonics and
Storm, it's to sell newspapers. This isn't Frank's hobby, it's his
profession. If the Sonics left the state Robinson would be bitter,
Frank would be out of a job, the job of writing stories about the
Sonics and Storm that sell newspapers.
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