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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 12:39pm #20076
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    PurpleMonkeyDishwasher
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    Slam mag.

    July 31, 2010 5:24 pm | 6 Comments
    Heat Sell-Out Season; Fire Sales Staff

    As sad unemployment is, there wasn’t a way to go around this. From the Miami Herald: “With the arrival of LeBron James, the Miami Heat rapidly sold out all their season tickets. That turned out to be bad news for the ticket-sales staff, which was fired Friday. In a statement, the Heat confirmed the dismissals Friday afternoon, saying that with an ‘exhausted’ inventory of season-tickets ‘we no longer require a season ticket sales team to sell tickets.’ Stephen Weber, vice president of sales, delivered the news to about 30 ticket sales people Friday morning, according to one of the staffers who asked not to be named because he is seeking another job in sports.”

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 12:42pm #366141
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    McDunkin

    I saw this on the news earlier today. They said the heat are making sure they are able to find jobs elsewhere

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 12:45pm #366142
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    PurpleMonkeyDishwasher
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    That would be the descent thig for the Heat to do… it’s not like the Heat aren’t going to be extremely profitable.

    I bet Mickey Arison could sell right now for between $800 mil and $1 billion US.

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 1:02pm #366150
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    Chewy
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    Manchester United is worth 1.8 billion, more than any other sports club in the world. Soccer is where the real money is at.

    Just sayin…

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 1:06pm #366151
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    btown gm
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    soccer is like baseball u can just buy the best thats y man u and real madrid run shit. if the nba waz that way than cp3,lebron,wade,bosh,howard would all play for any owner willing to pay all of them.

    soccers where the money iz but nba is where the competion is

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 1:10pm #366154
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    Counting Stars
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    So, Lebron did not just f*ck Cleveland.

    (Couldn’t resist)

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 1:14pm #366157
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    Chewy
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    I completly agree, i love when there are 5-6 teams that could fight for a championship. There should be a hard cap in the NBA… down w/ the superteams

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 5:33pm #366269
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    Ahkasi Clay
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    Cleveland will have to hire extra people to try to sell their tickets

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 5:49pm #366280
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    sheltwon3
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    Cleveland should not have depended so much on one player.

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  • Posted on: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 9:03pm #366316
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    kacey
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    If there is a hard cap in the NBA then say bye-bye to the Bird Rule. Or at least, it would have to be tweaked a little bit.

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  • Posted on: Sun, 08/01/2010 - 4:37am #366344
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    Mr. Jewboy
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    sheltwon, if cleveland wouldnt have depended so much on lebron, maybe he would have stayed

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  • Posted on: Sun, 08/01/2010 - 5:06am #366350
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    omphalos
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    Honestly, I don’t think Cleveland had a choice. Bron was so ridiculously talented in all aspects of the game that the Cavaliers couldn’t help but give him the reins to the team and let him dominate the statsheet. It was up to James to take a step back and let his teammates get involved and develop. Ideally, before you’re 3 games into a Conference Semifinals series…

    But yeah, sucks for the ticket-sales team.

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  • Posted on: Sun, 08/01/2010 - 10:25am #366419
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    sheltwon3
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    a hard cap would not stop teams from overpaying top guys and then giving crumbs to other players. That would hurt the NBA and help overseas market so I doubt David Stern does that or else it would have been done. A hard cap will never happen. Unguaranteed contracts and less cap space will happen first.

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