[轉錄] Bruce Levenson 想賣老鷹的真正動機

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作者 kreen (大晴天。) 看板 Kreen 標題 Re: [ＮBA] Bruce Levenson 想賣老鷹的真正動機時間 Fri Sep 12 22:20:22 2014 ─────────────────────────────────────── The Mess in Atlanta: What Bruce Levenson’s Email and Exit Mean for the Future of the Hawks http://es.pn/1wmnxga by Zach Lowe 導因： Bruce Levenson 在 2012 封館時歧視黑人球迷的 E-mail 被曝光，主因是他不想把票賣給窮的黑人，希望多想一點方案吸引有錢的白人球迷。老鷹的現實： 1.主場上座率過低，且 70％都是黑人進場，戰績好的時候上座率不到聯盟平均，戰機差的時候是聯盟倒數前三名。 2.老鷹上季虧損 23.9M，在聯盟中虧第五多，僅次於籃網、夏洛特黃蜂、灰狼、活塞。 Levenson 現況： 1.對黑人的看法 -黑人球迷不會像白人球迷一樣去買週邊商品 -黑人球迷比較少家庭客所以他透過一些方法試圖降低黑人球迷的比例，像是減少放饒舌音樂、讓白人球迷出現在鏡頭前之類的。 2.商業條件 -他是老鷹的實際控制者，不須其他人同意就可販賣 -快艇跟公鹿的高溢價讓人很有賣的理由。買賣球隊現況： 1.聯盟接近跟 ESPN、Turner 達成轉播合約聯盟自 2016-17後將收穫每年 20 億美元以上（現在每年只有九億），經濟泡沫將更不會破滅，事實上相當多買家對購買球隊感到興趣。 2.潛在買家可能把球隊搬離亞特蘭大最著名的例子是 Chris Hansen 的西雅圖團隊，當初他報價給國王的時候是 6 億 + 額外的 3億球場。現在他們對老鷹也感到興趣。 - 本文還提到 Danny Ferry 對 Deng的歧視和老鷹產權爭議，我覺得那不是重點就不整理了，有興趣可以自己點進去看。 ※ 引述《kreen (大晴天。)》之銘言： : What's Bruce Levenson's real motivation for selling : the Hawks? : http://bit.ly/1wbTJCW : by Chris Mannix : "I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket : statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's : a very, very slippery slope." – Mark Cuban, last April. : Were the contents of Bruce Levenson’s email reprehensible? : Absolutely. : Should it have cost him his team? : Well… : By now you know the story: In the summer of 2012, Levenson, the majority : owner of the Atlanta Hawks, fired off an email to Hawks general manager Danny : Ferry and two of the team’s minority owners. In the email, which was : intended to address legitimate business issues, Levenson made a series of : ignorant, racially insensitive remarks. : He connected the team’s financial struggles directly to its largely black : fan base, suggesting, in as bizarre a way as possible, that the team should : strive to attract a larger white audience by incorporating more white : cheerleaders, by playing music that would appeal to “a 40-year old white guy : ” and by diversifying, of all things, the kiss-cam that scans the crowd : between quarters. : In July, Levenson, according to the NBA, handed the email over to league : officials. On Sunday, in carefully prepared joint statements, the league and : Levenson announced he would sell his stake in the team. : Now, there are a handful of unanswered questions. Did the NBA encourage — or : even order — Levenson to sell the team? His decision to do so certainly made : the league’s life a little easier. There is no clean way to boot an owner : with the stench of racism attached to him, but the orderly way the NBA and : Levenson made the announcement, an announcement conveniently dumped into the : middle of a day dominated by the start of the NFL season, certainly makes : things simpler. : Did Levenson want to sell the team? There is evidence of that, too. In 2011, : Levenson thought he had a deal to sell the Hawks to California businessman : Alex Meruelo, only to have negotiations fall apart at the 11th hour. The NBA : landscape has changed dramatically since then, with sales of the Milwaukee : Bucks ($550 million) and Los Angeles Clippers ($2 billion) sending franchise : values skyrocketing and the promise of a lucrative new television deal : serving as a carrot that has prospective owners tripping over themselves to : overbid. A team like the Hawks, which Forbes recently valued at $425 million, : could fetch double that. : “I think what happened was he saw how much teams were going for and wanted : to make some money,” a rival team executive said. “What he said was wrong : but to me it seems like an excuse to sell.” : But what if Levenson didn’t want to sell? Should the NBA have the right to : force him to? : Should anyone? : Levenson isn’t Donald Sterling. Sterling, the recently deposed Clippers : owner, had a documented history of racist, discriminatory behavior well : before his rant to a former mistress. Levenson has none. But make no mistake, : Levenson's fate is directly connected to Sterling. The NBA reacted swiftly to : racist comments made by Sterling, banning him for life and immediately : beginning the process that ultimately resulted in Sterling being stripped of : his team. Many owners were uncomfortable with such a harsh punishment, most : notably Cuban, who worried about setting this kind of precedent for comments : made in private. This is an example of why. : If Levenson had resisted selling his stake, things would have undoubtedly : become ugly. Some owners would support him, most players would have likely : lined up against him and the fan base that Levenson was so dismissive of : would have stayed away in droves. Sponsors would flee and the story would : pollute the Hawks season, sabotaging it from the start. Levenson, one of : Sterling's harshest critics, had to know there was no way he could survive : this, that in a post-Sterling world a racially charged email like that was a : death sentence for his ownership. : "If you're angry about what I wrote, you should be," Levenson said in a : statement. "I'm angry at myself, too. It was inflammatory nonsense. ... I'm : truly embarrassed by my words." : Banishing Sterling was the right thing to do, but the NBA opened Pandora’s : Box when it did. One comment, one email, one statement never meant to become : public can have catastrophic results. Levenson had an ugly skeleton buried in : his closet, a skeleton he had to know would eventually emerge. Across the : league, other NBA owners must be asking themselves the same question: Do I? -- ┌這篇文章讓您覺得？─────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ 一"一 \ / >\\\< ╯ ╰ ∩ ∩ ▁ ▁ ＞＿＜ㄧㄧ+ │ │ 皿 ε □ ▽ ▇Δ ▇ ╰╯ ╯ │ │ 北七亂喔害羞莎笅爽啦哭爸ＸＤ科科 │ └────────────────────────── http://kreen.org ───┘ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢兔(ptt2.cc), 來自: 220.134.106.87

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