Ex-Sonics owner Howard Schultz is still full of hot air
On the July day in 2006 that principal owner Howard Schultz announced he was selling the Seattle Sonics to out-of-town buyers partly because, he said, local government showed his ownership group “no respect” during his pursuit for public funding, he did something petty that turned out to have significant symbolism.
The press conference at the Sonics facility was decorated with balloons in team colors. Whether he ordered it, or it was done by a misguided young staffer, I don’t know. But he didn’t tell anyone to remove them as he introduced buyer Clay Bennett, whom everyone in the room believed or suspected, except for Schultz, was going to move the team to his Oklahoma City hometown as soon as he could. It took him just two years.
The day of sale called for a eulogy, not balloons. Since then, whenever the tone-deaf Schultz makes news as a business or civic leader, or now as a potential independent candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2020, I think of those balloons.
They were full of hot air.
Exactly the same fuel that propels Schultz today.
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https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/art-thiel-ex-sonics-owner-schultz-is-still-full-of-hot-air/
The article goes on from here and I recommend you read the whole thing. The point of the article is if Schultz didn't have the stamina to tough it out as an NBA franchise owner what makes him think he'd be better as POTUS where the going is likely to be tougher than anything he's dealt with so far in his life?
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