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Steve Ballmer Explains Why He Paid $2 Billion For An NBA Team
Business Insider ^
| 08/19/2014
| Cork Gaines
Posted on 08/19/2014 9:42:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: headstamp 2
Because he can. Yep. Same reason I paid two grand for a rifle. Ain't nobody's business but my own.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
RE: Because he has more money than he knows what to do with?
Last check, he was worth $25 Billion. So he took less than 10% of that and bought a team for fun.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:17:31 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: Cry if I Wanna
RE: In 14 years he did nothing for Microsoft.
Well, I love:
Windows 7
Visual Studio
The C# programming language
Powershell Scripting
SQL Server
Sharepoint
and Microsoft Office
It wasn’t all bad.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:19:35 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
Just surprised he didn’t go after the NFL team that is up for sale
That’s where the big money an big egos are
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:20:59 AM PDT
by
reefdiver
(The fool says there is no God. And the bigger fools sees direct evidence and rages against it.)
To: SeekAndFind
The last game I saw had Dr. J in it. I don’t miss it.
To: SeekAndFind
Overpaid? Please list off the number of NBA franchises which will be available for sale in 10 years for less than 2 billion. An investment with a near zero chance of a loss, plus he gets to play big man for the next ten years. For people with his kind of money, a pretty good deal.
Now, for a real waste of money, watch what the Sterling family ends up doing with the 2 billion - figure a couple hundred wasted trying to buy back his standing with the NAACP, more women on the side, plus some extra boy toys for the wife, a messy divorce, children suing parents - Ballmer’s purchase is going to look extremely conservative by comparison.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:33:50 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:34:07 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
![](http://summarytown.com/media/images/book_covers/InSearchOfExcellence.jpg)
Keep searching.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:43:32 AM PDT
by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: dfwgator
Which team, Clippers or Lakers, has the sexiest (sluttiest?) cheerleaders?
To: SeekAndFind
If we run an excellent business...
***
He’ll need to hire somebody who knows how to run an excellent business.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:54:46 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: 2harddrive
LA LAKERS CHEER LEADERS...
LA CLIPPERS CHEERLEADERS
YOU DECIDE...
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:57:46 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: 2harddrive
We know which ones David Beckham would choose:
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:58:34 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
Clipper believe or not they going have good team this year I don’t see anything with Lakers they are old sadly to report
Man Ballmer was hyper in that Clipper fan festival
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posted on
08/19/2014 11:05:07 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: SeekAndFind
So, does this mean that the Clippers are going to wind up being the “Windows 8” of the NBA?
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posted on
08/19/2014 12:17:43 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: MeganC
“Now watch Ballmer make nothing but money on extorting a new arena out of LA or in moving the team to Seattle to take the place of the SuperSonics.”
Wonder if Ballmer knows the Clippers get third choice on playing dates at Staples Center. Lakers get first choice, Kings second.
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Why does he even have to justify it beyond “I wanted it, so I bought it.”?
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posted on
08/21/2014 6:39:24 PM PDT
by
Fire_on_High
(RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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