re: Zion paying for SKC Employees salaries for 30 days

Yea I agree. Now our owner is getting trashed by media. Gale is known for being a giving person I'm sure she was going to cover the employees. Beautiful for what Zion did but hopefully we can all get on the same page

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That is not a great look.

Gayle/Pelicans should have just come out and said "Thank you Zion for the awesome gesture and pledge, but we got this one."


Not say some weirdly worded convoluted statement that "Hey we were working on it and then you put you giant dick on the table before we could figure out how to pay these minimum wage workers"

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Yea, does that mean Zion just came out with this statement without at least consulting the team? I guess that does.

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But in my non-billionaire opinion, I think the billionaires should have come out pretty immediately with a statement saying that even though details would need to be worked out, all arena staff wages would be taken care of in the event of a stoppage that we, the billionaire owners, decided to implement.

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Several NBA organizations have done this.

Exactly. All 30 should have done it within 24 hours of the suspension

Ummm, they said they are/were working on the logistics of it...

I mean jesus christ guys, as Pels and probably mostly Saints fans, you should know Gayle will always do stuff like this, she does it mostly behind the scenes though as she doesn't really care about the recognition...

There's alot that has to go into it, it's not as simple as writing a check.. 100% guarantee lawyers are involved making sure the money goes exactly where it's supposed to, they have to ensure they have the cash on hand to support this (remember a person's met worth is not what they have sitting in a bank account), etc etc

You have to remember it's not just the stadium workers losing money, these owners are also losing millions from this.. TV revenue is not being paid out, but they still have to pay leases, players, front office, training staff, reimburse tickets if games will indeed be canceled

Looks like the players and their agents/PR teams are embarrassing the billionaire owners for the most part on this one. It's a generous and very savvy move by Zion when it's all over.

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You have to remember it's not just the stadium workers losing money, these owners are also losing millions from this.. TV revenue is not being paid out, but they still have to pay leases, players, front office, training staff, reimburse tickets if games will indeed be canceled

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Guys, think of the millions the billionaires are losing....the real fricking tragedy.

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You have to remember it's not just the stadium workers losing money, these owners are also losing millions from this.. TV revenue is not being paid out, but they still have to pay leases, players, front office, training staff, reimburse tickets if games will indeed be canceled

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This is a losing argument with the public.

Cost of being a billionaire. No one gives a shite if they're out even 100 million from all this.

I wonder what a ball park estimate would be for how much money this is? Regardless, it’s amazing to think that this is only the beginning of the legacy he’ll leave behind

First statement from Zion: 5 hours ago

First statement from the Pels: 3 hours ago.

It took their superstar breaking radio silence about an ongoing conversation to actually get the Pelicans to address the issue. To which all we currently have is a non answer that borders on non-commitment