Heat owner Micky Arison fined.

[TA9]

Whats Up !

As you all may know Micky exchanged some words about the lockout to twitter users. Sure you all knew that the NBA would fine him, but I personally think that this is ridiculous!
"David Stern has fined Miami HEAT owner Micky Arison $500,000 for Friday tweets on the lockout, league sources tell Y! Sports."
I thought that the fine would be around 30k-50k. But $500.000!?

In other news yall may heard that Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce with Kris Humphries. Evan Turner and Spencer Hawes had some quite amusive tweets about that haha Enjoy!:
"@spencerhawes00 RT @thekidet: If kris got divorced already then I hope he gets half! Do if for the fellas bruh!!” Agreed turner. #teamhumphries!"

[Who]

The fine was large in order to keep the owners in line and appear, publicly at least, as one entity for the CBA negotiations. David Stern didn't different views from different owners coming out and being debated by various owners during the negotiations. PR + leverage reasons.

The owners were all warned prior to the summer that they would suffer very large, even multi-million dollar, fines for infringements.

[Marcus13]

I wish nothing but misfortune on the Miami Heat organization....but this stupid and is just Stern throwing his weight around

[slamtheking]

Can't blame the guy for wanting to settle.  he needs to get back to selling merchandise of the Heatles to recoup some the money lost on fielding that team of losers.

[bdm860]

This will probably just get put as a loss in the Heat's financial statements.  See we're losing money!  Then the owners will use that as fuel in the next CBA.  If the Heat are barely scraping by, then what about the small market teams 

[nickagneta]

The story behind the story is that someone asked Arison why the greedy owners continue to lockout the players when all the players want to do is getting back to playing ball.

Arison responded with "you have the wrong owner" and then deleted the tweet. Other owners went to Stern and lobbied for an especially large fine because the tweet publicly showed for the first time that there was a split in the owners regarding their needs and demands.

Other owners had been fined $100,000 for their comments regarding the lockout thus far but none showed any lack of solidarity on the owners side. This did so Stern went along with the group of owners that complained to him and levied the fine of %500,000.

Can't help but think this shows that there are probably a group of small market owners that are driving this push for every possible concession they can get out of the players and are the ones driving the hard ball negotiating tactics we have seen. My guess is teams like LA, NY, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando and Boston would settle right now to begin the season with the concessions received thus far as they are all contenders looking to get the season going and making money.

[Chris]

The story behind the story is that someone asked Arison why the greedy owners continue to lockout the players when all the players want to do is getting back to playing ball.

Arison responded with "you have the wrong owner" and then deleted the tweet. Other owners went to Stern and lobbied for an especially large fine because the tweet publicly showed for the first time that there was a split in the owners regarding their needs and demands.

Other owners had been fined $100,000 for their comments regarding the lockout thus far but none showed any lack of solidarity on the owners side. This did so Stern went along with the group of owners that complained to him and levied the fine of %500,000.

Can't help but think this shows that there are probably a group of small market owners that are driving this push for every possible concession they can get out of the players and are the ones driving the hard ball negotiating tactics we have seen. My guess is teams like LA, NY, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando and Boston would settle right now to begin the season with the concessions received thus far as they are all contenders looking to get the season going and making money.

While I agree that this shows that there is a split among the owners (which we already knew), I am not sure it shows that a "small group" is driving this.

I think it is more likely that the majority of the owners are pushing for them to stay strong, and it is a small group who want to give in and end it.