<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Let the guessing game begin: There's a hot rumor out there that a well-known retired NBA player is in the hunt to buy Crazy Horse Too strip club. With the property value of the once-mighty club falling by the hour, owner Rick Rizzolo has a tough challenge: work out a deal from his prison cell by next month. Las Vegas Review-Journal</div></p> I'm going with... Charles Oakley?</p> -Petey</p>
Crazy Horse Too is in the news here a lot.</p> Seems that if they don't find a new owner, the government is going to take it over. That would make it a state run whore house. Amazing.</p> </p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dissonance19)</div><div class='quotemain'>Dennis Rodman?</div></p> Far superior guess to mine sir.</p> How about Magic Johnson? He's a very good businessman.</p> -Petey</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'> The only question is: Who? Some immediate namescome to mind, but a true list requires careful analysis of all the factors:</p> 1) It has to be someone with cash left over from his playing days. That limits the field a lot more than you’d think it would. (Goodbye, Dennis Rodman.) Also means it’s probably someone from the past two decades when salaries exploded. (Goodbye, Walt Frazier.)</p> 2) It has to be someone who doesn’t work within the NBA, because I can’t imagine David Stern looking kindly upon such an association. (Goodbye, Isiah Thomas.)</p> 3) It has to be someone who just doesn’t care what anyone thinks and wouldn’t hurt his other business interests. (Goodbye, Michael Jordan.)</div></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> 1. Charles Barkley (2-1 favorite): He’s the most popular NBA figure in the nation, yet he doesn’t actually work for them. That would be Stern’s out. And he loves Vegas, as evidenced most recently by his All-Star race with Dick Bavettathat raised $50,000:”We’re gonna give a ton of money …we’re gonna give two blackjack handsto charity.” Plus you just can’t tell Charles what to do and, more specifically, what not to do.</p> 2. Matt Geiger (4-1): An average NBAplayer, he is an amazing real-estatemind — and he has his mansion in Florida on the market for $20 million. Who knows, maybe the nudie bar could be a capital-gains shelter.On the surface, there’s a drawback in that he just had a baby with his girlfriend. But, and maybe I’m just too old-school here, but “baby with his girlfriend” makes buying a strip club more of a possibility than “baby with his wife.”</p> 3. Patrick Ewing (6-1): The guy sure won’t have to clear the hurdle of becoming publicly known for an association with a gentleman’s club. Not after the whole Gold Club thing. Trouble spot: He’s an Orlando assistant. (But that can’t bring in as much cash.)</p> 4. Larry Johnson (8-1): The UNLV connection makes it a natural, even if he wasn’t one of the players caught in the hot-tub photo with Richard “The Fixer” Perry. First big-big-big-money NBA player, 12 yrs/$84M in 1993. LottaConverse “Grandmama” scratch too.</p> 5. Charles Oakley(12-1): Also got caught up in the Gold Club scandal. But there’s something else that makes me think he’d be a successful Sin City businessman: the gambling flap with Tyrone Hill, who once reportedly showed up at Oakley’s hotel room to pay off a $54,000 debt after Oakley had slapped him in the face before a game. “Things double in life,” Oakley told the Toronto Globe and Mail then. “He said he paid me. If he ain’t paid me $108,000, he ain’t paid me.” Charles Oakley is a bad bad man.</p> Some other suggestions:</p> Jordan (20-1, too much other merchandise to sell), Magic Johnsoon (25-1, too many other business interests and it would bring the HIV debatefront and center again), John Amaechi (30-1, but wouldn’t it be great to see Tim Hardaway as the special opening-night guest), Bill Bradley (100-1, but wouldn’t it be great to see a guy say “Screw it, I’ve been good for too many years and it still didn’t get me the presidency&rdquo.</p> And some guys it definitely won’t be:</p> –A.C. Green and David Robinson (spirituality), Dennis Rodman (can’t possibly have anymoney), Isiah Thomas (works for the league and doesn’t need another sexual-harassment headache).</div></p> LINK</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticKing)</div><div class='quotemain'>How about Steve Kerr?</div></p> </p> Kerr is the Suns GM, as the article said Stern wouldn't react kindly to this.</p> </p> I'm thinking Oakley now.</p> </p>
Being English i'll go with the only Bball Players i know.</p> Shaq</p> Kobe Bryant</p> Mj</p> and ChaRLES Barkley</p>
