Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 9:15 am  |  16 responses

Heat’s Micky Arison NBA Owner With Most to Lose During Lockout?


The Miami Herald argues that the Heat’s owner has the most on the line during this potentially long NBA lockout: “You’re approaching the one-year anniversary of creating arguably the most interesting team in sports history (sure, it was top heavy, but those three top players alone carried sports conversations for an entire year) and the health of your franchise has never been better, with Forbes estimating the Heat to be worth $425 million. You’re coming off an NBA Finals where your team fell painfully short of its second world championship, and you have only three more years of guaranteed time with the LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade before their player options come up, giving all three the freedom to head elsewhere if this isn’t working out as planned. Is this really the time for labor strife to potentially cost you a full season? Isn’t this the worst possible time to consider bonding with these newer, more desperate owners around the league for the sake of shared health? Wouldn’t a potential lost season put a huge dent into this perfect model you essentially have spent four years planning for and building? There might not be another owner in the NBA with more to lose if the league loses an entire season than Arison. And he is just one of several who provides proof that this NBA lockout will essentially come down to owners bickering among other owners rather than the more common players-versus-owners picture that is normally painted.”

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  • bull22

    who cares….. iam sure the league will find a way to grandfather them in
    and create some kind of exception before the new cba goes into effect (whenever that happens} the 3 big failures won’t be breaking up anytime soon.

  • James

    I think the team with the most to lose is Celtics and then the Spurs. The door on those team’s title hopes is closing rapidly and I wonder if those guys will be able to get back in shape if they have year off.

    A year off could force them both to enter the rebuilding stage.

  • Landry_legend

    As the CBa continues… Kobe is somewhere healing and getting back to 100%

  • T-Money

    i’m not sure i understand this argument. the three guys are under 30. why do they have more to lose than other contending teams?

  • KING DAVID

    yo landry kobe sucks now just accept it

  • bull23

    bull22 u still mad the heat beat the bulls? get over it man

  • yo

    so there is some hope?

  • Jose

    New Jersey is Screwed the Most if no season happens. i know they weren’t great this year but if you skip a year now the Deron Becomes a free agent and can bounce out. After giving up Favors, harris, and 1st rounders.then you end up with nothing. I mean, that would suck beyond belief,

  • Heals

    Wow what a surprise the local paper thinks Mia has the most to lose (Not harping on SLAM for posting, but the paper for bias). The insulated, it’s all about us mindset that surrounds that team is pathetic. The Lakers have 12 players under contract and are 30 mil over the cap, Orl may never see DHoward play again, Bos, SA (as brought up before) are looking for the fountain of youth, @Jose – exactly NJ’s near future is riding on DWill liking it there and staying (tough to do without any games). Give it a rest Mia – players, fans, media – just stop already…

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  • MikeC.

    For most to lose, this is my order: Spurs (built around aging Ginobili’s offence, aging Duncan’s defence and Tony Parker who has a lot of mileage). Celtics (bright spot is Rondo’s youth, Ray Allen’s meticulous conditioning and KG’s intensity. If they can get a reliable big with some bounce, they’ll be back in the mix even with a year off. Celtics’ stars don’t have all those playoff miles on them going back 15 years). Lakers (similar situation as the Celtics but with more mileage on the stars and no young Rondo-type to carry the slack. Kobe just tipped over the edge of the pyramid and is on the downside. If they swing a trade moving Gasol/Artest for some younger legs, they’ll be back in the mix again too).

  • MikeC.

    Teams with most to gain: Any team that was going to just turd on the season while waiting for the 2012 free agent class. If they were just going to play it out and wait for contracts to expire, they get to do that now without having to pay those players, and then pursue FAs when the lockout is over (if it kills the whole season).

  • Mac

    Miami is going to lose irregardless. The new salary cap is going to further hamper their ability to sign adequate help for the big 3. They should have just signed Lebron and D-Wade and used the rest of the money to get other pieces around them.

  • bull22

    @fool 23, in case you missed this, here is the present i had for all those clowns that picked the heat to win it.
    JOURNEY,THOU SHALL PREPARE A BISCAYNE FEAST FOR YOU, THOU SHALL BE YOUR KING, COME WITH ME MY OBNOXIOUS MIAMI BRETHREN, TO TAKE THESE FINAL STEPS INTO MY ABODE, WHERE THOU IS THE KING OF THE MIAMI SEWERS”………. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

  • bull22

    THE FINAL JOURNEY” “THOU SHALL LEAD THIS HEAT ON THIS GLORIOUS JOURNEY,THOU SHALL PREPARE A BISCAYNE FEAST FOR YOU, THOU SHALL BE YOUR KING, COME WITH ME MY OBNOXIOUS MIAMI BRETHREN, TO TAKE THESE FINAL STEPS INTO MY ABODE, WHERE THOU IS THE KING OF THE MIAMI SEWERS”……….

  • http://www.walshsportsblog.com Darren

    Bit early to be writing the season off, maybe wait until for a month or two yet?

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