Did anyone read this?

[sportsguy12]

I can't believe Joe says this stuff. He was quoted at the All-Star Game.

1) Newman said he’s replaced 12 ownership groups this season alone, including Montreal.

* Gee, I wonder how well he screens people ... well, you really don't when you just take their money and run.

2) “I have over 5,000 applications from people who want teams, so there’s a tremendous desire,” said Newman. “I don’t expand willy-nilly. Sometimes the shine gets off the apple because the applicants are ex-basketball junkies who believe in the game of basketball but don’t understand the business of basketball.”

* Gee, I wonder how well he screens people ... well, you really don't when you just take their money and run.

Newman defends his league’s dropout rate compared to other rival circuits.
“We have a lower percentage of teams that drop out than the Continental Basketball Association and the United States Basketball League,” he said. “The CBA has folded five teams for every team that’s still playing.

* Hey Joe, name them ... until the Utah Eagles folded this year. The CBA hasn't had a team fold DURING the season for a decade. We're talking during the season. Teams move during the off-season all the time. But no one knows how to fold a team DURING the season like the ABA.

[The Magician]

"Way to Go Joe!" :mad:

[rams80]

Newman defends his league’s dropout rate compared to other rival circuits.
“We have a lower percentage of teams that drop out than the Continental Basketball Association and the United States Basketball League,” he said. “The CBA has folded five teams for every team that’s still playing.


I think there's truth to that...but what he didn't say is that that's over the course of something like 60 years.

[Dilbert]

* Hey Joe, name them ... until the Utah Eagles folded this year. The CBA hasn't had a team fold DURING the season for a decade. We're talking during the season. Teams move during the off-season all the time. But no one knows how to fold a team DURING the season like the ABA.[/QUOTE]

Hate to remind you that even though about half the teams left the CBA for the IBL midseason in 2000-01, the teams that did not go to the IBL folded, though a couple have come back.

[sportsguy12]

* Hey Joe, name them ... until the Utah Eagles folded this year. The CBA hasn't had a team fold DURING the season for a decade. We're talking during the season. Teams move during the off-season all the time. But no one knows how to fold a team DURING the season like the ABA.

Hate to remind you that even though about half the teams left the CBA for the IBL midseason in 2000-01, the teams that did not go to the IBL folded, though a couple have come back.[/QUOTE]

but even still ... more teams in the ABA have folded this season then when that happened.

[Chuck the Writer]

Hate to remind you that even though about half the teams left the CBA for the IBL midseason in 2000-01, the teams that did not go to the IBL folded, though a couple have come back.

Except that some of those teams (Quad City, Connecticut) closed down after their IBL season ended, and at least their owners had the common sense to purchase the franchise back from Isiah and try to run it for the remainder of the season. The 2000-01 season was an aberration, and I was trying to eradicate it from my mind.

Isiah Thomas and Joe Newman are in a boat and the boat starts to sink. Who gets saved first?

EVERY BASKETBALL FAN IN THE WORLD!

[sportsguy12]

Except that some of those teams (Quad City, Connecticut) closed down after their IBL season ended, and at least their owners had the common sense to purchase the franchise back from Isiah and try to run it for the remainder of the season. The 2000-01 season was an aberration, and I was trying to eradicate it from my mind.

Isiah Thomas and Joe Newman are in a boat and the boat starts to sink. Who gets saved first?

EVERY BASKETBALL FAN IN THE WORLD!

let the other two sink.