Yes, the Jazz are going to suck and as long as they keep selling out the stadium - they won’t care.
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Not even close to a accurate but you do you
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Okay. Is Smith not the primary entity behind their coach’s contract and the NIL for the players?
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The money he may eventually get for the entertainment district is not from SLC, per se, but rather from the legislature.
But, by all accounts, the deal is a good one for everyone. Events at the DC are the biggest revenue dates for SLC, so doubling those dates and keeping them in the city for at least 30 years is a no brainer.
So is the ticket fee kicking money back to the city.
And, the money SEG gets isn’t a lump sum.
It really has little to do with what Ryan Smith does with NIL, if anything he’s actually spending more now than he was even 6 months ago.
And long term having a successful SLC, with pro sports teams, helps the U immensely
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Who cares? It’s his money. He’s a multimillionaire and would be no matter what happened with his investments into pro teams and their infrastructure. He’d be donating millions to BYU regardless.
Second of all, these pro teams and entertainment districts are civic investments. You don’t want some invester having ALL the power in these scenarios. If they provide ALL of the money, they have your community by the balls.
The community needs to have some say and skin in the game and that comes through financial investment. So, it’s not bilking (and don’t get me wrong, it CAN be and HAS BEEN bilking for some in the past), but when done properly and above board, it’s a shared investment — as it should be.
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I agree. I don’t care, I was just being snarky & perhaps a bit jealous that Utah basketball doesn’t have a billionaire to fund the NIL.
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My snark-detection meter has been acting up this summer. I promise I’ll get it fixed soon.
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How does Danny Ainge still have a job?
117 wins 134 losses
And still years away from even being respectable
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He’s certainly in the top 10 of despicable zoobs.
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The Jazz couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 
The team is a dumpster fire, and I don’t blame the coach for it. This is all Danny Ainge’s mess. Trying to build the Celtics with a small market team in a flyover location ain’t gonna happen. Trading away talent for draft picks rarely works out, given some of the best rookie talent ends up being UDFA’s coming from developmental leagues. It only gets worse when you find a talent, then they bail to a bigger market in free agency.
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Only winless team in the league. Last night blown out at home by a team that came in with just one win (now two).
Sigh. At least our generic hockey team is somewhat competitive.
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Ainge & Smith seem to be more committed to making byu basketball a winning program than they are to making the Jazz competitive. Would they try to talk the byu coach into becoming the Jazz coach in a couple years?
Here’s my snark: Why are taxpayers funding a new UHC & Jazz arena when Smith’s hobby is throwing millions at byu sports? Why is he holding SLC hostage for funding when he clearly has the money to do it himself?
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How stupid are the people buying tickets?
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As one who got to watch the dumpster fire of a team that moved here in the late 1970’s, this team is actually worse than that one was.
As most often RDA’s never end up recouping the money spent on them it really is a case of billionaire welfare in play here. With that noted, the public infrastructure in and around that area is pretty old, and if most of the money spent is going into replacing that with state of the art public infrastructure, maybe the investment is worth it; but given the dollar figure approved - it will be bubble gum, band aid’s, bailing wire, and duct tape on the existing infrastructure.
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The state legislature needs to do something! I know, audit the Utah athletic department!
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Memo to Danny Ainge:
This is not a 1980’s sports rom-com you’re running here, where a bunch of “milk carton guys” strike gold and win their way into the playoffs. It is a franchise that prior to the fire sale used to actually win games and contend. Now, all it does is lose; and when one of these players shows signs of becoming good, you trade them off for peanuts. The prior regimes may have been caught in a cycle of “good but not great,” but this team is bad and trending to becoming “Hall of Shame” bad.
Asking taxpayer to subsidize something this bad with a new stadium is criminal.
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I don’t follow the NBA at all so I’m just going off what the talking heads on sports radio have said.
The west has several good to great teams with young players. With the Jazz trying to tank then rebuild via the draft, they aren’t going to be able to keep up with the handful of young, good teams in the western conference. Basically, what they are trying to do with a rebuild isn’t going to work, at least not for several more years.
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As of December 4, the Jazz are scraping the bottom of the Western Conference standings with a 4-17 record, or .190…
…which was actually about Danny Ainge’s batting average when the Toronto Bluejays told him to find something else to do besides playing for them.
Then in his new sport:
“In 1983, as a member of the Atlanta Hawks playing in Game 3 of the first round, Tree Rollins got into a fight with Danny Ainge of the Boston Celtics. In retaliation for allegedly being called a “sissy”, Rollins elbowed Ainge in the face. Ainge subsequently tackled Rollins to the ground and the two began to wrestle. Rollins then bit Ainge’s middle finger so badly that it required a couple of stitches. After the fight, Ainge was ejected and Rollins was not.”
I remember SI had an article describing informal polling where a majority of respondents thought it was Ainge who bit Rollins.
Haha.
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For countless reasons, which I will not take the time to name, Danny Ainge will remain among my very least favorite people on the planet.
Edit to say: His attaining the position of GM for the team, was the death nail in a decades long decline of my interest in the Jazz - from one-time season ticket holder to absolute indifference.
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