No one knew who Caleb Martin, Max Strus, Gabe Vincent and Duncan Robinson were til they played for the Miami Heat. No one finds and develops talent better than us.
Jimmy Butler went to the finals with Publix bag boys. If you think this team won’t compete ur an idiot.
Woke up with a Wanted win 🤯
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Oh boy, it’s FakeCash, I mean FanCash Friday at Fanatics Sportsbook again. Can’t wait for all the balls to vortex to the middle and the sound of disappointment from the lady. Has anyone ever won the $10k?
New: UFC President Dana White has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to help reverse the 90 percent limit on gambling loss deductions for US taxpayers that became law last year.
The issue has been a concern for both bettors and the gambling industry itself.
Allow me to translate this letter from eBay for those who don’t speak legalese:
Ryan,
We got your unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $125/share (half cash, half stock) supported by your 5% economic interest in eBay.
Our board, backed by the usual crew of bankers and lawyers who get paid either way, “thoroughly reviewed” it.
We’re rejecting it. Not because the math doesn’t work. Not because the highly confident letter from TD Securities for up to $20B on top of your $9B+ cash pile is fake. None of that.
We’re rejecting it because your entire approach to running a company is an existential threat to how we like to operate here.
Here are the reasons we feel this way, and the things we considered before paying consultants to write this:
1) We’d rather keep milking eBay as a “standalone” cash cow than let you turn it into something bigger and better.
2) Sure, you’ve got real financing lined up and you “know people” with deep pockets, but we’re going to call it “uncertain” anyway so we don’t have to engage.
3) Your plan would actually force real long-term growth and profitability changes we’d rather not be held accountable for.
4) The debt we pretended you can’t even obtain, the operational integration and focus on seller satisfaction, and most importantly, putting someone like you in charge of the combined entity all sound like a nightmare for our current leadership structure because all of us would have zero job security.
5) The valuation math only looks bad if you ignore the 46% premium you’re offering our shareholders and the upside from fixing eBay the way you fixed GameStop, which we are choosing to do and hoping nobody notices.
6) And I hope we buried the lede far enough here: Your governance and executive incentives are completely incompatible with ours. You and your board take zero cash, no salary, no bonuses, no golden parachutes. You buy shares with your own money and only get paid if shareholders win. We, on the other hand, like our nice, reliable annual payouts regardless of whether the stock is flat or the company is just coasting. We’re not about to hand over our golden goose to a guy who eats only what he kills.
Look, eBay is “strong” and “resilient” in the way every entrenched public company says it is while handing out eight-figure checks and perks to the C-suite. We’ve done the usual incremental stuff: tweaked the marketplace a bit, returned some capital, and we’d like to keep doing that without any cowboy from GameStop coming in and demanding actual skin-in-the-game accountability. Can you just leave us alone?
Our team remains focused on protecting the current regime and delivering “value”… mostly to ourselves and our consultants.
Thanks, but no thanks,
Paul S. Pressler Chairman of the Board, eBay (And proud beneficiary of the status quo)
Taking a page out of Kyrie’s book and saying thank you for breaking the game we love. I got so much time for other things now and am no longer a slave to the game.
“We have a SERIOUS problem right now, and that game last night highlighted it. We have a LOT of flopping going on… A LOT of no-calls. The refs gotta have some type of accountability. Fans are starting to think it’s RIGGED”
- Kendrick Perkins