Owners Rumors
Marc J. Spears: Clippers head coach Doc Rivers tells Ernie Johnson he threatened to quit after he was told Donald Sterling did not like white players and didn’t want to go forward with terms that were agreed to with them free agent JJ Redick. Sterling eventually relented.
JJ Redick: Deal was done on Tues in LA. Flew to Austin. Got a call from Doc at 6 pm July 4. “You better play for me mother f$cker”. Had no idea what he was talking about. Tried calling my agents. They didn’t answer calls for 48 hours. Finally Arn called Saturday PM to tell me what happened
Cuban said the most realistic scenario for playing and seeing sports is “when it’s safe, we will be able to play again.” He said as soon as players can be tested and know that they are safe and they can play a game in an environment that doesn’t have fans, “then we will do it.” Cuban said hopefully starting next season for the NBA around Christmas Day.
Tilman Fertitta was among a group of restaurant executives and industry leaders at the White House for a meeting with the president and several key members of his administration. During the meeting, which featured a lively exchange between Trump and the Houston restaurateur — who the president referred to as “a friend of mine for a long time” — Fertitta said he initially received a paycheck protection loan, but returned it after he realized “I would’ve been that billionaire that took the money from the little business.”
Fertitta said he “caught so much criticism because I was the first person who did lay off 40,000 employees” as the outbreak began. He said he had to borrow $300 million to keep his companies afloat and “it wasn’t enough to hire back all of my employees.”
A sponsorship group led by Uber and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors has secured $600 million in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) debt that was originated by J.P. Morgan Chase in order to refinance the new Chase Center Towers in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, according to ratings agency analysis of the transaction.
