New Owner - Mat Ishbia

[Cheesebeef]

By the way, I dare anyone to try watching that movie now and arguing with my theory that Brooks had a Time Machine and came back from 2017 when he wrote it because Bart is such a great stand in for Obama, Gov Lepotamie is a DEAD RINGER in every way with Trump and Hedley Lamar is basically McConnell.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

https://www.si.com/nba/2023/02/21/mat-ishbia-suns-mercury-owner-interview

Deep dive by SI on Ishbia - if his actions meet his words, he'll be far and away the best owner in AZ sports.

 

[Mainstreet]

From Mat Ishbia on his first week in Phoenix via twitter.

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[JerkFace]

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[Mainstreet]

Josh Bartelstein will replace former Suns CEO Jason Rowley.


By Adrian Wojnarowski Senior NBA Insider

After buying a majority share of the Suns at a $4 billion valuation earlier this year, Ishbia brings on Bartelstein to replace former Suns CEO Jason Rowley, whom some employees placed at the center of allegations of verbal abuse, retaliation and intimidation in the workplace under Sarver.

Sources: Suns hiring Pistons' Bartelstein as CEO

Suns owner Mat Ishbia is hiring Josh Bartelstein as CEO, sources told ESPN. The two will work together to oversee the business and basketball divisions.

www.espn.com

 

[Carolinacacti]

From Mat Ishbia on his first week in Phoenix via twitter.

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Is that KJ getting creeping on his son? Does Ishbia own a home, Mansion, Resort or just flys into Phoenix?
I'm a sick mother...........

 

[Mainstreet]

It may have already been posted elsewhere, but Josh Bartelstein has been named CEO of Suns and Mercury.

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[JCSunsfan]

It may have already been posted elsewhere, but Josh Bartelstein has been named CEO of Suns and Mercury.

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good grief he looks young. But everyone looks young to me these days.

 

[Cheesebeef]

It may have already been posted elsewhere, but Josh Bartelstein has been named CEO of Suns and Mercury.

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This guy gives me the creeps for sone reason.

 

[Mainstreet]

good grief he looks young. But everyone looks young to me these days.

The same here.

 

[Superbone]

Hey, congrats to us all for surviving Sarver! Our patience has been rewarded.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Hey, congrats to us all for surviving Sarver! Our patience has been rewarded.

Yeah we didn’t celebrate that enough imo. We should’ve had a ticker tape parade down central.

 

[Superbone]

Did you notice his omission by Al McCoy during his retirement ceremony? He went straight from Colangelo to Ishbia.

 

[Superbone]

The best thing I can say about Sarver is that he found a better replacement than Colangelo did.

 

[JCSunsfan]

The best thing I can say about Sarver is that he found a better replacement than Colangelo did.

Sad but true. I am such a Colangelo fan (hence JC in my sn), but he really failed us in his sale of the team.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Reading the Cards board and seeing some of the stuff coming out is giving me PTSD from the first few months of the Sarver debacle.

So glad the Suns nightmare is over.

 

[Yuma]

Sad but true. I am such a Colangelo fan (hence JC in my sn), but he really failed us in his sale of the team.

Hey, Colangelo had shallow pockets, and I am sure he thought selling to Sarver would take our team to the next level. I am certain if he knew the Suns would have a lost decade, he would have picked another ownership group, or not sold.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Reading the Cards board and seeing some of the stuff coming out is giving me PTSD from the first few months of the Sarver debacle.

So glad the Suns nightmare is over.

I have a sibling who has been a direct report to Mike B for almost 20 years. I've never heard her say a peep about a toxic environment. But she is excellent at confidentiality. Anyway. that's why I don't post on the Cards board. She's got a great job, they have treated her very well, and I don't want any chance of anything I say even to seem like I might have some insider knowledge.

 

[JerkFace]

I have a sibling who has been a direct report to Mike B for almost 20 years. I've never heard her say a peep about a toxic environment. But she is excellent at confidentiality. Anyway. that's why I don't post on the Cards board. She's got a great job, they have treated her very well, and I don't want any chance of anything I say even to seem like I might have some insider knowledge.

So what do the new Cards uniforms look like?

 

[JCSunsfan]

So what do the new Cards uniforms look like?

Ha. I don't care! Believe me, I am no insider.

 

[Dr. Jones]

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[Chaplin]

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This sucks, but in a massive company of 7000 employees, there is bound to be something like this happening. It doesn't necessarily speak to Ishbia himself.

 

[Cheesebeef]

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Sweet

 

[Mainstreet]

Reading the Cards board and seeing some of the stuff coming out is giving me PTSD from the first few months of the Sarver debacle.

So glad the Suns nightmare is over.

I'm in wait and see mode.

 

[Hoop Head]

The word "toxic" has essentially lost all meaning nowadays. Not sure when it happened but you hear it over and misused daily.