(10-28-2020, 04:31 PM)KillerLeft Wrote:(10-28-2020, 04:24 PM)omahen Wrote:(10-28-2020, 04:20 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Houston's delay in signing a new coach might've been an attempt to save some money, lol.
Wow. Than things are really, really bad.
Yeah. I should've specified earlier - it was just some really serious Rockets fan, not a reporter or anything. Just speculation, but yes, it seems like the Houston owner is hurting.
Yes he is. He owns a bunch of nice restaurants that are getting absolutely destroyed. He's on CNBC like once a week. (The bucks owner is on weekly as well albeit unrelated)
He may be rich but what people don't realize is that a large portion of rich people don't actually have money sitting around. It's all invested to make more money. And by no means am I saying poor rich people... Just pointing out that they can be over leveraged and not enough cash position just like everyone else in America.
Cash flows are hurting for the small businesses he owns and he's waiting for that second round of stimulus. He's been keeping all of his people hired from day 1 IIRC.
I think there is some validity that the Rockets went cheap. Cheap unproven coach and the big money gm gone. I wouldn't be surprised to see them try and trim some money either.
(10-28-2020, 10:24 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2020/10/robe...posal.html
Money will talk and the players will likely come around. I would not bet against the TV sponsors winning out for Christmas games.
I also don't buy the majority of players are in the camp of January. I think it's the most vocal aka Lebron and some of the other contending teams from Orlando.
You have 8 teams that haven't played since March and have no legitimate reason to want to have January MLK start date.
Another 6 teams haven't played since the 2nd week of August.
That's at least 4 months off for 14 teams. And you got another 8 teams that were off 4 months played a month and will have been off 3 months.
I get wanting to have a normal offseason and getting a bit more time... But you'll have had about 8 months off in the year no matter what team you are. That's perfectly reasonable for all this.