Suns News: Week 10 12/28-1/3

[Shabazz]

Sarver is trying to partner up with Steve Nash to buy a Spanish club soccer team. No wonder the Suns have been run so terribly. His mind is elsewhere.

That should be a good thing, no?

[Mori Chu]

I don't think what this team needs is more attention from Sarver. He is our George Lucas.

[AmareIsGod]

http://arizonasports.com/story/505543/r ... occer-club

Report: Suns owner Robert Sarver and Steve Nash team up to bid for Spanish soccer club

ESPN’s Marc Stein is reporting that Suns owner Robert Sarver and Suns Ring of Honor member Steve Nash are partnering up to purchase Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, a Spanish soccer club in Spain’s second division.

According to Stein, Sarver assembled a group to purchase the club and Nash was a “key member.”

The two partnered up back in August to purchase Levante, a team in the first division of Spanish soccer. That purchase did not come to Fruition.

[Indy]

I don't think what this team needs is more attention from Sarver. He is our George Lucas.

Please don't do that. Sarver has never done anything great, much less amazing, for the Suns. Despite how far the prequels were from what we wanted, he still gave us the Star Wars universe and two great movies.

[Mori Chu]

That's true. More like, he's our Steve Ballmer. (In Microsoft company context, not LA Clippers context.)

[Indy]

That makes more sense.

[LazarusLong]

I wish Nash, Grant Hill and a couple of others would team to buy the Suns from Sarver...

[Indy]

I wish Nash, Grant Hill and a couple of others would team to buy the Suns from Sarver...

One can only dream. I know he is a blowhard, but I would be up for a contingent with Nash, Hill and Barkley. They would need some backing from a billionaire, most likely, but if they are the face of it, I think it could work. That way, since it is none of them by themselves, they would have to appoint someone to be team president or CEO or whatever. And we wouldn't be placed at the whims of anything Barkley comes up with in the middle of the night.

[The Bobster]

If you're looking at retired Suns who might have the serious money needed to become part of an ownership group you're probably talking Nash, Hill and Shaq, not Barkley.

[Indy]

If you're looking at retired Suns who might have the serious money needed to become part of an ownership group you're probably talking Nash, Hill and Shaq, not Barkley.

But none of them could do it alone (or even together), right? I assume they would go for half a billion or more.

[carey]

Amare once he retires? He had two rather large contracts.

[The Bobster]

If you're looking at retired Suns who might have the serious money needed to become part of an ownership group you're probably talking Nash, Hill and Shaq, not Barkley.

But none of them could do it alone (or even together), right? I assume they would go for half a billion or more.

The Bucks sold for $550 million a year ago, despite having questions about being able to get an arena built there. So I'd think the Suns would be wsell north of that. Probably closer to the $730 million that was paid for the Hawks and the operating rights to Philips Arena earlier this year.

Not even Jordan has the money to plunk down $750+ million for a team.

[Cap]

Actually, Jordan's net worth is more than $1B, so he could do it if he really wanted to.

[The Bobster]

Jordan could certainly be the main money man if he sold his share of the Hornets (89% estimated at about $416 million)

[JCSunsfan]

Sarver is trying to partner up with Steve Nash to buy a Spanish club soccer team. No wonder the Suns have been run so terribly. His mind is elsewhere.

The less Sarvers mind is on this team the better. He meddles too much as an owner.

[JCSunsfan]

I wish Nash, Grant Hill and a couple of others would team to buy the Suns from Sarver...

Isn't Grant Hill an owner of the Hawks now?

[SDC]

Sarver is trying to partner up with Steve Nash to buy a Spanish club soccer team. No wonder the Suns have been run so terribly. His mind is elsewhere.

haha, lately sarver is paying more attention to soccer than basketball. last year he tried to buy Rangers FC. This yr, Mallorca.

some recent Mallorca history

In late May 2010, Mallorca declared bankruptcy and applied to the courts to enter voluntary administration with debts estimated between £42.5m and £51.3m.[3] It was announced on 28 June 2010, that a consortium led by former club manager Lorenzo Serra Ferrer that included tennis superstar and Mallorca native Rafael Nadal had bought the club,[4][5] and the sale was completed on 9 July 2010.[6]

However, due to the poor financial situation at the club, UEFA decided on 22 July 2010 against granting Mallorca the licence to play in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, after the team had qualified to the competition after finishing fifth in the league.[7] Despite the off-field upheavals and financial struggles, Mallorca managed to stay afloat in its 14th consecutive season in the top division, under new manager Michael Laudrup.

Despite that, in the 2012-13 season, after Laudrup's departure, they were relegated after 16 seasons, ending their tenure in La Liga.

they are currently ranked 18th (out of 22) in the spanish league 2nd division.

[The Bobster]

I wish Nash, Grant Hill and a couple of others would team to buy the Suns from Sarver...

Isn't Grant Hill an owner of the Hawks now?

Yes, he's a minority owner.

[Sunsfan4life]

Bobby Portis....If their is anyway/Anyhow we can get him out of Chicago we do it

[carey]

Bickley: "Suns, Cardinals have traded places in fans' eyes."

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/2 ... /78207820/

The Cardinals have reached unprecedented altitude just as the Suns have hit rock bottom. The distance between the two has never been greater, representing a dramatic overhaul in the personality of an adolescent sports market.

The Suns will likely miss the playoffs for a sixth consecutive season, setting a new franchise low. The organization is mocked by former players and condemned by general perception. One year after shipping out unhappy players in a failed chemistry experiment, the Suns have already fired two of Jeff Hornacek’s handpicked assistants, further undermining his shallow base of authority.

“The reality is, there’s only a half dozen championship-caliber organizations in the NBA over the last 25 years,” Sarver said. “My job is to find the right people and the right culture to eventually be one of those organizations, and it starts with me. I’m not shirking responsibility.

“The blame is to be shared from the top down. Our leadership needs to communicate better. It needs to provide a better culture that provides for more accountability and more motivation. We have a lot of good, young players. They need to be playing hard, aggressively and on the same page whether we win or lose. That’s what I expect going forward.”