The Warriors keep going nowhere and this seems like one of the worst pre-seasons and media days yet, but Warrior fans keep buying tickets so Cohan does not have to pay for his monumental, colossal, stupendous stupidity. I did not think the Warriors would turn into love-able losers. Maybe the SF - Bay Area has a mix of NBA fans and it's not just Warriors. The Warriors were top 10 in league attendance last year and had 97% in ticket sales. Compared to them, Memphis and Sac only were in the 70s. Yow. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/attendance Sac better shape up and build that new arena or else they're going to lose their only pro sports franchise.
I don't think enough of us will do that... I mean look at the clippers. How are they in existence? I guess we could start sending letters and trying to speak our mind on radio shows. We can give an ultimatum. Start doing better or we stop caring. If there is nothing meaningful about this product they are selling, then the fans will stop caring. Cohan would have to sell if nobody wants his stinking product and it would let everyone know we hunger for good basketball, but we sure as hell ain't buying it from Cohan.
The fact that this team has serious fans, if there was a wealthy person who was serious about putting a winning team out there, he could easily see the team and that investment bringing in serious cash inflows. But the problem seems to be Cohan. Wasn't he about to sell the team to the Oracle guy? Isn't he in money trouble with some tax fraud or something? If he is then a boycott may actually work. But how you organize that, I don't know. Stephen Jackson sounds like he may be a proponent of this action, between demanding to be traded and I guess he was pretty vicious against Rowell?
This is one of those deals where if you love someone, you should let them free... I'm trying as hard as I can to separate caring, from supporting. This year the experiment begins. I will not buy anything Warriors, tickets merchandise, nothing. I'll still watch the games on TV (I'd be getting FSBA either way so it's not extra money). And I'm going to start sending an automated email a day to the PR department saying exactly that. It may not make a difference, but I can't stand the ownership and direction any longer. Fly...be free!
Cohan must use the warriors as a tax write-off or something... but then again it's not like the warriors are losing money... he just doesn't care. He doesn't have the same motivations as we do.
