Philly's new team owners....

[utahstarsticketholder]

So I read about the Philly team... well two hours later the owners are ..... Duane A Quamina .... a local pastor ....an administrative assistant to a camden pa councilman.... has lots of claims of international appointments.

And

Beryl J. Wolk
Google his name and you get a marketing company, ready to take your money and make you rich! This guy is out there, click on A Better World! Dude will make a video for you to sell whatever as long as the check clears.

Boy , Joebot #2 you can pick them!

Remember our troops, jack and cheryl

BTW I listened to the interview with Bradbot #1, it is very funny. So a multi million dollar company director of operations has a "chart on his wall" to track the times he makes contact with the owners? WTF? This is a guy with a college degree in math? This is a ludicrous but it makes me laugh! Too bad injured players with no health insurance, fans with no tickets or refunds, owners with life savings gone have to deal with the deception. jh

[Fells]

In Brad's defense, the man has 60+ teams to keep track of. You have to give the man credit for being organized and keeping track of who needs to be contacted and when. Man, with 60 teams, my head would be spinning wondering whom I had contacted and when, and when the next time I needed to check in with them is.

Again, he seems to have his act together, and at least he is trying to do something with this league.

[bomp]

My guess is that Mr. Newman has met his match with this crew. I think they are setting him up for a massive lawsuit. He should have investigated.

[preeths]

In Brad's defense, the man has 60+ teams to keep track of. You have to give the man credit for being organized and keeping track of who needs to be contacted and when. Man, with 60 teams, my head would be spinning wondering whom I had contacted and when, and when the next time I needed to check in with them is.

Again, he seems to have his act together, and at least he is trying to do something with this league.

I agree. Mr. Hester has a lot to do, and I believe he has a genuine desire to improve the ABA.

[tbayz1]

I Agree, with 60+ teams to worry about, and teams folding left and right, its hard to stay on top of that

And I also agree that Brad has some brains and wants to improve the league, but he has one problem, Joe Newman, Joe is in complete control and quite frankly I dont think any one elses voices are heard, Brad could have a good plan and good ideas, but with Joe in charge, nothing will change

Maybe Brad should overthrow Joe and become CEO lol, I think he could do a little better job than Joe

Joe has ruined the league, and the only way to start to improve, to start going in the right direction is getting rid of him as CEO, but that wont be easy! (im getting tired of saying this lol)

[Fells]

Brad must feel like Sisyphus when it comes to dealing with the scheduling and teams. He has 60+ teams right now, and who knows how many teams will come and go over the course of the season?

I have spoken with Brad many times, and he has a genuine desire to improve the league but has a mammoth task ahead of him.

Brad is one guy I won't rip on as he is one of the few in the upper management of the ABA who is working towards a better league.

[Sam Hill]

This is yet another set of "great owners" who will be disavowed by Joe should they ever dare to challenge his great almightyness.

[brianphilly]

Well this is my first post But it looks like the same story when it comes to the ABA over 3 years later The last time we had a team 2004 {Philadelphia Fusion } I was basically laughed at when I called about tickets or any other questions. I already tried to email the owner about the Philadelphia sounds :confused: at the email listed and it came back as undelivered mail

[Chuck the Writer]

This is yet another set of "great owners" who will be disavowed by Joe should they ever dare to challenge his great almightyness.

Are you sure you don't mean "almightymess??

[utahstarsticketholder]

Well, my posting last evening about Brad does not mean I think he is not trying to do the right thing but rather the means is a reflection of the league. I am certain that the NBDL , NBA, CBA use modern software to track all activities. Brad in his interview said he was tracking his contacts with team owners with a chart on the wall. Even an old 53 year old firefighter knows how to use MS Explorer to track my daily schedule of activities, set reminders and track scheduling of 45 firefighters and their work hours. It just seem to me that clear answers to the questions asked were not forthcoming. I think because Brad is not allowed to do much unless Ole Joe says he can go forward. I do like his idea to return to the Great Eight Tournament. These owners have limited budgets, those who will survive and need a clear understanding of the playoff system well in advance to budget for the travel. I however laughted at the 175.00 flights to Hawaii, play two games in three days and have a day at the beach! But then you only need to book a room for two nights -fly in and play-day off-play and fly out.
I just do not see this sad league surviving untill playoffs or even November. It is a shame and a disgrace to the faded distant memory of the real ABA.
Remember our troops, jack and cheryl.

[TheStandard]

Brad has good intentions but Daddy Joe writes his check and tells him hey puppet move your strings

[gbahoops]

it amazes me the quality of owners the aba has-top notch business people with a board of directors and a president of an llc-here is how the philly owner signed off on a letter to the aba ceo-
Philadelphia Sounds, LLC. Rev. Duane A. Quamina, President
in georgia, an llc has general members and managing member-isnt it the same for pennsylvania? everyone wants to be a president
by the way, is a press release stating a league is playing in the spring as well as the fall a solicitation?

[ABARedWhiteBlue]

On the new owner in Philly:
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20070703_ABA_awards_franchise_to_Philly.html

Some highlights:
Last night, the Rev. Duane A. Quamina, the Sounds owner, said he is negotating for a home arena.

"We're looking at Temple, which has McGonigle Hall and the Liacouras Center," Quamina said. "We're also looking at Drexel, Penn's Palestra, La Salle's Tom Gola Arena, Villanova and Saint Joe's.

"We're going to call and get some numbers and see which is the best fit for us."

Quamina, 48, has a lot of decisions to make between now and next year, including how much to charge for tickets.

Right now, he says he is certain only that "we'll be affordable and family-oriented."
Where is my ABA bingo board?

Quamina said he has not contacted the Sixers, but has several ambitious ideas on how the two teams can benefit each other.

"I want to work out a situation with the Sixers where, if they have guys they want to keep close to home, guys they want to develop, they could play for the Sounds. Ideally, I want to have a team made up of 50 percent local talent and 50 percent development players.

"I want it to be like the ABA in the old days, where they'd say [the ABA teams] were a Class B team - until they went out and beat the Knicks."
Talk like this must make Joe giddy with joy. So, he thinks he can work out a player relationship with the Sixers, who would choose his team over, I don't know, the established NBDL farm team? Okey-dokey... :rolleyes:

[TheStandard]

what a dumb idiot this ponzi reverend is. takes money from the congregation to drive a BMW or some nice luxury car( you know thats the truth look at all of them so called men of god) an agreement with the sixers. What a pendejo. THATS WHY THERES THE NBDL. The MINOR LEAGUE OF THE NBA BY THE NBA. Can we give this the old yeller treatment already?