Is Jeff Bezos gearing up for a bid on the Boston Celtics? | Gresh & Fauria
reaction to Jeet Bezos Cashing Out 5 billion in Amazon stock good God Almighty do people have a clue yeah like automatically on he’s buying the Celtics he’s got to be doing something with the Celtics cuz it’s five billion and the team’s worth five billion how about the fact that the guy cashed out 7 and a half billion in stock earlier this year has anybody paid attention to that no no no no but the fact that was funny though cuz can you when I sat there said okay Jeff be Bezos is going to like buy the Celtics like what a pain in the ass to own a team if you don’t know anything about professional sports it’s just a toy it’s like you have so much money like you know what I’ve always dreamed of owning a like you know a car a sports car like having a house in the in the mountains or on the lake or the cape or whatever and but these guys no no no what’s fun for them what’s like just some sort of like with their discretionary income is buying a professional basketball team hey I’ll just I’ll just sell $5 million worth of the stock I’ll buy it I’ll let somebody else run it and then I’ll just come in and complain and yell at people for not doing things right right and then I’ll leave again yeah but think about it in the world of the billionaire those are the equivalent of like jewels in a way they it’s it’s like like a Picasso or something like what oh god i’ rather have the Picasso no no but the in in in the world of the billionaires I think about this in the world of billionaires what is the one thing Jeff Bezos does not have well he doesn’t have a a professional sports team Bingo and there you go so it’s literally checking boxes I think some of it yeah and uh look at Bezos wanted to ride into town he would be like Balmer we wouldn’t have to worry about any of the attack or attacks or anything like that unless the guy ran like a real business and you know then then you’re screwed but which anybody could come in bu the team and actually you know run it like a real business not run it like a drunken fan yeah because Paul Allen on the Seattle Seahawks when the old ownership Ken bearing and those guys tried to move the Seattle Seahawks to La the league started finding the Seattle Seahawks like you know like like a $200,000 a day for every day that they were in La they lasted a week they moved it back well sure enough like they somebody reaches out to Paul Allen hey uh would you buy the Seahawks basically like that’s how uh you got a lot of money and you live here in the area um you’re not doing anything uh would you would you buy him and he was like ah let me look at it next thing you know he’s buying the team we never saw him I never saw him anywhere every now and then at a Christmas party he’d like show up and then like ninja Dustin he’d be gone okay it would just disappear and everybody where’ Paul Allen go I don’t know he disappeared he has like you know a technology that none of us know about that’s not what’s what’s going to happen with the Celtics like the Celtics are GNA be Steve puga and that bank Capital that group right I mean that’s really what that’s that’s the easiest transition they could possibly make they have the inside track uh does the puka group let’s call it right that crew uh and it comes down to does someone come in and just offer a stupid amount of money for you know does p does steeve puka already know under the hood hey I know the numbers I know Wick’s part of team is worth this right so if you say that his his part of the team is worth three billion or three and a half mark it up a little bit but let’s say the puka group comes in at let’s go a little high 3.75 billion and someone like Bezos comes in and says I give you four is $250 Million worth it enough for a guy like Wick grck to say nah I’m going to go with this guy and screw not screw but pass over the people I’m already in business with for you know whatever the dollar amount would be or as a steward of the franchise as we’ve heard all these owners say at some point in time which it feels like then do you do business as business is done it’s turned over to your partners you’re still getting a pretty good payout on your $230 million investment whatever it was at the beginning and you’re still made whole but does somebody come in and just do something stupid like again if beos comes in and says I’ll bid five billion for your piece then guess what sorry Pags you know unless you’re getting closer to that right exactly then it’s almost like well I’m not turning down a billion dollars but maybe if it’s 250 million you might turn it down to be able to give it the guy who’s already standing to your left see I was I was thinking this that that he would probably that PS is probably in a position to get a deal yeah but then I start thinking about the way billionaires think like you know hey we we’re friends and all but I’m not going to give up $250 million just because we’re boys like would you cut me this deal just because we’re friends well again at a lower number I think it is plausible because it’s less disruption to the organization and and let me just add this before I forget about it would would would would would would they sell the team in order to like you know you know make sure the team is in the the right hands no that’s what I mean is yeah yeah it would be whenever you talk about or when owners talk about they’re the stewards of the franchise right it’s that you what you’re they a responsibility Bingo that’s what you’re saying is that you’re now adding the civic responsibility to it really of the hey these are the people that you know these are the people that we know I don’t get as wrapped up in the whole like local ownership thing as other people do but if that’s one of the selling points that with grossbeck has sold well then it’s the same for puka I just think there’s going to be somebody who’s going to cause a problem in all this meaning there’s going to be somebody who’s got dough and they want the asset they want the what uh what did you call it earlier it was like I said it’s you know it’s like having a ruby or a DOT you know it it it really is like one of those things that it’s the most exclusive billionaires club in the world when you think about it and if you’re the NBA for as much as I was mocking the whole hey Bezos has cashed out stock before folks that’d be like saying oh Vince McMahon’s got 2.6 billion laying around and he cashed out to buy the Celtics like it is funny like if you think about it as like the Celtics are an auction item and there’s Pags in the front row with his paddle number 18 right number 18 actually number 19 y he’s number 19 19 now all right and he’s sitting in the front and he’s like okay I got this got this and Bam okay 2.7 million bam 3.5 million bam okay Final Call Final Call oh uh Jeff Bezos in the back4 billion he just kills it no you know what it would be if if there were an auction like that yeah it would be the auction it would be in a small room and it would be you know 3 billion 3 billion do I hear $3 billion 3.1 billion 3.12 3.15 3.15 billion and you go through the whole thing and then all of a sudden the doors just swing open going on going twice and you hear and here’s this tiny little bald man come walking in and he go billion billion doll then they’re like so to the to the small man for $5 million and then he literally just turns around turn around walks out he leaves all right let’s go back to let’s go back to France yeah hey let’s go back to patano uh send the uh send the paperwork over to uh Gina in legal she’ll handle everything for me I’ll sign it all we’ll be good let me know when need to show up I’ll cut you a check by the end of the week is there a ribbon cutting ceremony no no it’s not a no we’re not there’s no what you know that really does but in all seriousness guys like and and I joke about Vince McMahon he’s not going to come in and buy it but when you think of who are the people that have $2.5 billion dollars in just money like cash laying around those are the kinds of people that you’re talking about like Jeff Bezos is among the rare people in the whole world who could walk in say to Wick a right you a check and there are not many most people like even if Pags he’s not even pre-qualified no but I just got it you know I got it but you’re right like Pags is already pre-qualified but kind of at like what number because if someone comes in and blows doors you know again if it’s this sounds nutty if it’s a couple hundred million doll I would think that Wick and the Pags group could figure that out if somebody comes in and is like like no no I’m a billion dollars above everybody else there’s no way where gr can turn that down the only turd in the punch bowl for the Celtics is that Rogue billionaire that literally views it as this like you know this Crown Jewel that has suddenly been discovered that is that is at auction for the first time and oh my God okay it’s only a small group and sure enough Here Comes This Rogue billionaire just being a jerk right he doesn’t really want it he just likes to own things that are really valuable and he doesn’t really value it or he doesn’t want to be a steward either he just wants to be an owner yeah this gets this would get a guy like Bezos or anybody in the club and again look at the look at the cross ownership in sports now right like what is it the guy Ryan Smith I think it is who owns the Utah basketball team or he’s bringing in the hockey team you got old man Kony Who’s got what the Rams half the teams or all the teams in Denver I think or something so the group is actually gettinger when you think it and there are people with Casino money like old lady adelon down in uh Dallas who was just waiting to get in it was just a matter of what is the right time and I was watching some CNBC over the weekend they were talking about that even just Wick gross Beck’s piece could end up you know setting a record in terms of an NBA sale which it does make me wonder if somebody like say the puka group wants in and they make a bid but they hear that Bezos is interested and he’s throwing around real money I wonder if some of those guys go well you know what maybe put a for sale sign on mine too like you know I I do wonder if for guys like Steve PUK and Bobby Epstein and the whole the rest of Boston basketball Partners LLC if they catch win that some big billionaire is coming in and is going to make an offer on the wick piece and it’s an unbelievable value why wouldn’t you reverse course and consider being like okay well you can have my shares too well I was going to say if the billionaire may not want any Partners there is that I don’t want any I I want to own the thing outright I don’t want anybody I don’t want a board I don’t want anything I’m the board that’s that’s a good call CU a lot of those guys are Control Freaks and if there’s one thing that is unique about R grck was when he came on and took this team it was no I have my LLC I have my group of people that I want with me and he has somehow done one of the now again he’s the controlling interest but he’s done one of the hardest things to do which is to keep rich people together and going in the same direction okay that means they’re all making money well they’re all either making money or they’re all of the mindset of in some ways you know I’m sure that there are some of the guys in Boston basketball Partners LLC who might not be making a ton of dough but they’re a part of the ownership group it’s a little bit like we just talked about with Bezos why do you want it because I do cuz I can do I need to give you a reason right well yes well you it depends I’m I’m not going to sell it to you if you don’t give me a good reason right someone just texted in to 37937 why can’t Taylor Swift buy the Celtics because she doesn’t need to and she doesn’t have that type of money uh oh no she does oh oh oh oh I’m not saying that she’s not rich I mean if you’re talking about tears there’s the top tier which is the Jeff Bezos of the world and then there’s like you know the next couple layers down where would Taylor Swift is she worth you know $150 billion do no her uh her according to now okay no look at these things they said I was worth $71 million no I I did but after the uh like the arys tour already did over a billion dollars in revenue and that’s one tour that the woman did going on around the world supposedly Taylor Swifts net worth is about 1.5 billion but if there’s anybody that would be able to borrow the money it would be her easily because her collateral is going to be I’ll do more tours that’s exactly right all she has to do is be like yeah I’ll go do 50 dates around the world and uh you know I’ll have 500 million for you in about eight months but to your point Bezos like goes to the ATM machine actually Bezos doesn’t even need to go to the ATM he just he writes the check and and and it’s a done deal uh but if you’re Taylor Swift you don’t want any hassle what you kidding me freaking turn around who got pulled over another guy got drunk is driving drunk again who got got arrested for like spousal abuse yeah you don’t want any of it says think of the millions and millions of new fans and the incredible amount of merchandise that would be sold I don’t think Taylor Swift is hurting for fans and if there’s one thing I don’t think Taylor Swift is hurting for she doesn’t need to partner with anybody to sell merch put her face on a t-shirt mark it up to 25 bucks and you’re making a ton of Am I Wrong you’ve been to those no I wish I was going to those things because I would just but no
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