作者 kreen (大晴天。) 看板 Kreen 标题 Re: [ＮBA] Bruce Levenson 想卖老鹰的真正动机 时间 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 导因： Bruce Levenson 在 2012 封馆时歧视黑人球迷的 E-mail 被曝光，主因是他不想把票卖给穷的黑人，希望多想一点 方案吸引有钱的白人球迷。 老鹰的现实： 1.主场上座率过低，且 70％ 都是黑人进场，战绩好的时 候上座率不到联盟平均，战机差的时候是联盟倒数前三 名。 2.老鹰上季亏损 23.9M，在联盟中亏第五多，仅次於篮网 、夏洛特黄蜂、灰狼、活塞。 Levenson 现况： 1.对黑人的看法 -黑人球迷不会像白人球迷一样去买周边商品 -黑人球迷比较少家庭客 所以他透过一些方法试图降低黑人球迷的比例，像是减 少放饶舌音乐、让白人球迷出现在镜头前之类的。 2.商业条件 -他是老鹰的实际控制者，不须其他人同意就可贩卖 -快艇跟公鹿的高溢价让人很有卖的理由。 买卖球队现况： 1.联盟接近跟 ESPN、Turner 达成转播合约 联盟自 2016-17後将收获每年 20 亿美元以上（现在每 年只有九亿），经济泡沫将更不会破灭，事实上相当多 买家对购买球队感到兴趣。 2.潜在买家可能把球队搬离亚特兰大 最着名的例子是 Chris Hansen 的西雅图团队，当初他 报价给国王的时候是 6 亿 + 额外的 3亿球场。现在他 们对老鹰也感到兴趣。 - 本文还提到 Danny Ferry 对 Deng的歧视和老鹰产权争议 ，我觉得那不是重点就不整理了，有兴趣可以自己点进去 看。 ※ 引述《kreen (大晴天。)》之铭言： : 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? -- ┌这篇文章让您觉得？─────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ 一"一 \ / >\\\< ╯ ╰ ∩ ∩ ▁ ▁ ＞＿＜ ㄧ ㄧ+ │ │ 皿 ε □ ▽ ▇Δ ▇ ╰╯ ╯ │ │ 北七 乱喔 害羞 莎笅 爽啦 哭爸 ＸＤ 科科 │ └────────────────────────── http://kreen.org ───┘ --

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