Bob Johnson Offers Bruton Smith Share of new CLT NBA Team

Bob Johnson has offered Bruton Smith (Speedway Motorsports Chairman) a minority share of the new NBA team. Last year in case you've forgotten, he was talking all types of smack about buying the Orlando Magic and moving them to Charlotte (of course, this never happened . . ) . Obviously, owning a small part of an NBA franchise is way cheaper than buying the whole thing, but according to his comments here he's got to think about how much its going to cost . . . Whatever Bruton . . . I wonder if Packman is going to grill him on this on PRIMETIME ? ? ?


If Bruton is smart, he would go ahead and do this: This could possibly open the doors to the Uptown Powerbrokers (defacto group of movers & shakers in this town) who he's never really officially been a part of for various reasons. This could possibly get the ball rolling on opening up his proposed Racing Hall of Fame & Museum!!!! Notice the land north of the arena site is slated for 'future development' . Wouldn't this be a logical place to stick the museum & HOF at ? ? ? ? Arena next door to the racing hall of fame would be a great 1-2 punch IMHO !!!!!!!!!!



Will Bruton Smith be a part of the NBA Charlotte Ownership Group ? ?

 

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhh , just had a vision . . . . . Bob Johnson is trying to start his new regional sports network for the team . . . . Its going to need programming outside of the NBA . . . . Hmmmmmmm, NASCAR-related programming would be an obvious choice, wouldn't it ? ? ? ? ? ? I wonder who could help him do this ? ? ? ? ?

 

I thoght the area N of the arena was about to be developed. The parking lot has already been closed down. Or do you mean the area one block east of that?

 

why would bruton want to throw money into a crappy product?

 

thats the childrens learning center, "our school bonds at work"

east of that is still up for dibs, but its gonna be mucho $$ in a few years for that tract of land.