I could have chosen to not have kids. I could have chosen not to have a hobby. But I think both of those have made my life better. Otherwise what would I be doing? Just sitting watching tv all day?

Alan has kids, a hobby, and sits around watching TV all day. That’s cool, right?

The guy has had six straight 12+ BPM seasons and they have made exactly one deep playoff run with him in that timespan.

maybe cam comes back?

I know jamal was an all-star last season, and key to their chip, just don’t see him as a good sidekick for jokic…

their whole team chemistry seems off…

think the wolves are also in a similar situation, better roster though, maybe…

I don’t have any grand ideas about how to buck this trend other

I’d start with eminent domain but I’m dramatic.

Not a fix, but maybe a decent move…

It’s at the minimum! Of course it is.

Not a fix, but maybe a decent move…

The Walter situation is…unique, to say the least. But the announcement that Marc Lore is selling his share of the Wolves today sure does make it feel like teams are increasingly being treated as assets to be flipped when the ROI is good, as opposed to, you know, pillars of a community to be stewarded over by people with some level of investment in both the pillar and the community.

Thompson has been making the point lately that this may just be a product of the investor/PE/sovereign wealth fund class catching onto something relatively late—the governing structure of major professional sports leagues combined with the US tax code does make teams stellar investments.

It is literally illegal for anyone to start a new team that competes on quality, your team can never go out of business no matter how poorly you manage it, revenue sharing guarantees a cash flow floor, and to top it all off amortization lets you write off your principal investment despite all of these idiosyncratic advantages. I mean, there’s a reason that, to my knowledge, virtually no one has sold an American professional sports team at a loss. That seems pretty rare among asset classes!

The Buss family is dramatic, self-important, and annoying. But I think we’ll miss them when they’re gone from the NBA scene. Jerry and Jeanie were/are definitely diehard basketball fans, which seems like a bare minimum qualification for owning one of 30 NBA teams but also seems likely to become increasingly rare. You don’t need to look any further than Tom Dundon buying a team he clearly doesn’t give a shit about in anything other than dollar and cents terms to see what the next generation of NBA owners might look like.

I don’t have any grand ideas about how to buck this trend other than appealing to anyone who might become extraordinarily wealthy and also happens to be big sports fan to buy a team and operate it with due fiscal prudence but also in the best interests of the people who make this heads-I-win-tails-you-lose financial proposition possible.

We’ve talked about how long will the championship glow last, and folks have suggested that Leon and Brown have earned lifetime jobs.

But the Nuggets won the championship three years ago, and already

– the GM who built the team has been fired.

– the coach who won the title has been fired.

– folks are credibly suggesting Jokic should ask out.

– Nuggets fans are completely disgusted with the team and its ownership.

More importantly, all of these things were/are justified. It’s not like people are overreacting here.