I don’t know why he wants to be an owner. He must be the most unsuccessful owner in any sport. He’s the longest-term owner in the NBA and his team has only gone to the playoffs 7 times in 33 years, and have never won a playoff series until this year. (And they barely won the series, even with the NBA refs carrying them on their back)
He has made an incredible amount of money owning the team, and now has two of the NBA’s top players and a legitimate chance to win. (Almost all the teams winning in the first round went to seven games this year.)
But living with this level of notoriety? I don’t know if that’s what he’d like, other than being stripped of his team could sting worse.
He runs the Clippers as a business, not as a sports team. He bought the organization for very little, has invested next to nothing in it - paying among the lowest salaries in the league - and now has an entity that is reported to be worth north of half a billion dollars. While he might not be successful in terms of titles, he has been very successful in terms of making money. So I guess it’s just what the definition of success means.
Oh, and BTW, Klavan seems to be saying here that anyone who believes all talents are not equally distributed among the races is a vile racist.
Like many owners of sports teams, he loves the cachet of being an owner and flaunting his wealth. It’s an ego thing.
“He must be the most unsuccessful owner in any sport”
He paid 12 million for the team in the early 80’s...he should be able to sell it for anywhere from 500 million to a billion. Unsuccessful? Laughing all the way to the bank.