PTR: The Spurs lost money last season

[TimDunkem]

at the bolded part

Buford's drafting has to be down there with Chicago and Orlando. Jean-Charles, Milutinov, Fathead, Murray, Fathead dos, Bottomgame... it's not surprising Pop still has to trot out Parker or Ginobili out there

Yeah, can't fault Pop for going with the old men when he has losers like D-League "I'm better at drinking and chasing underage girls at the club than playing basketball" Green, Fathead, LMA, and that choker Fatty Mills.

@ "Bottomgame"...Who else? Adam Hanger, Nando De Culo, Cory Joseph over Jimmy Butler, Malik Hairston (for Dragic to our rival Phoenix), Scola for cash to pay Matt "I'll spread the court and my ass" Boner, James Gist!, Marcus Williams, De Thomas, Cady LaLol, Marcus Denmon, Jack McClinton, Ryan ing Richards.

[jimbo]

Owners did this before the last lockout too. I'm sure this was "leaked."

[TheGreatYacht]

Yeah, can't fault Pop for going with the old men when he has losers like D-League "I'm better at drinking and chasing underage girls at the club than playing basketball" Green, Fathead, LMA, and that choker Fatty Mills.

@ "Bottomgame"...Who else? Adam Hanger, Nando De Culo, Cory Joseph over Jimmy Butler, Malik Hairston (for Dragic to our rival Phoenix), Scola for cash to pay Matt "I'll spread the court and my ass" Boner, Livio Jean-Scrub, James Gist!, Marcus Williams, Ryan ing Richards.

Danny "2K rated me higher than what I should be" Green

How the basketball nerd writers still don't call out PATFO is beside me.

[cd021]

Even Clevenald lost money according to this reaserach.

The Spurs has had the platform to catapult themselves into a "fans" loved organization though. They're just piss poor at PR.

Contrary to popular belief the Spurs are popular outside of San Antonio, there's tons of spursfans in Toronto and other major american cities..It's acutally one of the very few teams in the league the draws out fans in opposing staduims.

They really just need to throw this "Classy" Garbage schtick and aggressively promote their players instead. They have a Golden Opportunity with kawhi..The fans love him, the media likes him.

All them Big market teams..Also aggressively promote their Players...SOmething San Antonio never does.

Still, is that it has to be demoralizing when the Spurs are considered the gold standards and they lose money despite a deep playoff run.


BTW; to your point, I live in Virginia and have no ties to Texas nor have ever been and i've been a fan since 2003.

[DMC]

This lie keeps the players from trying to put the squeeze on the owners.

[apalisoc_9]

Still, is that it has to be demoralizing when the Spurs are considered the gold standards and they lose money despite a deep playoff run.


BTW; to your point, I live in Virginia and have no ties to Texas nor have ever been and i've been a fan since 2003.

I don't think they actually lost money though. CBA is just around the corner.

I'm sure they had to do some accounting magic.

The point remains though, they don't do enough to market the things that do sell "Superstars"

[spurs50_]

NBA needs a hard cap....Need to spread out the "stars"..Can't have them all on one team...If San Antonio ever loses the Spurs, I'll be done with the NBA...

[apalisoc_9]

It doesn't help that if Kawhi leaves San Antonio, they're basically Atlanta Hawks west.

[Maddog]

This doesn't take into consideration of the Spurs Stadium concessions etc.
That said the Spurs probably at best broke even to a small profit.
Look at the local media deal the Lakers have_ also as mentioned the Luxury box sales in bigger markets- ticket prices etc. It's really hard to compete.
Add in the Spurs Ownership is way down on the net worth for NBA owners....

Since 1980 only two teams outside the top 11 metro areas have won a le- (Spurs and Cavs)

[TheGreatYacht]

San Antonio is an embarrassment