Billy Hunter is in for a shit storm

[Mediocre Man]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...roils-nba-union-as-players-question-hire.html


This is gonna be epic

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

From the players wanting Fisher to step down to this fiasco -- I think they're realizing just how severely the owners won this one.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

"We are family [ba bum ba bum]... I got all my brothers and sisters with me [ba bum ba bum]...



YEAH, BABY!!

 

[HailBlazers]

Wow, some shocking financials there:

Hunter’s wife, Megan Inaba, currently the union’s director of special events, has been on the payroll since 2001 - - before she and Todd Hunter were married -- and has made almost $1.2 million. She was paid $70,948 as the union’s director of career programs in 2002. According to the 2011 filing, she was paid $173,219, fifth-most at the union, and more than the $163,458 paid to Pamela Wheeler, director of operations for the women’s players union.

 

[Eastoff]

Whoa, that is quite the shitblizzard.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Unions!!!!

{Poasted via palm pilot}

 

[jlprk]

This is gonna be epic

Tempest in a teapot, because the players don't care. The money is so easy. Coaches and GMs make 30 times what they'd make outside of sports.

The criticisms can be easily addressed. His kids can move to other ritzy law firms. At 69, he'll retire soon. He makes as much as the NFL and MLB union heads combined. I'd rather see numbers for what his kids made from their law firms, than for what their firms made. When you interview at a law or CPA firm, you get the job if you can bring in new clients. The interviewer asks you who you know, and can you get him. It's quite open and accepted. They teach you in college accounting that that's how it will be.

 

[illmatic99]

He's just feeding his family. Latrell is jealous.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

He's just feeding his family. Latrell is jealous.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[MickZagger]

NBA's union is weak sauce.

 

[ironcrotch]

and now he has Awoj on him with new allegations, there is no turning back now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--n...ion-investment-for-bank-with-ties-to-son.html

 

[Mediocre Man]

Couldn't happen to a better guy

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Tempest in a teapot, because the players don't care. The money is so easy. Coaches and GMs make 30 times what they'd make outside of sports.

The criticisms can be easily addressed. His kids can move to other ritzy law firms. At 69, he'll retire soon. He makes as much as the NFL and MLB union heads combined. I'd rather see numbers for what his kids made from their law firms, than for what their firms made. When you interview at a law or CPA firm, you get the job if you can bring in new clients. The interviewer asks you who you know, and can you get him. It's quite open and accepted. They teach you in college accounting that that's how it will be.

Whaaaa? I have an accounting degree and have worked at a cpa firm, they never asked my friends or myself that.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's a union. Who really cares? This stuff is part & parcel of any union.

 

[jlprk]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--n...ion-investment-for-bank-with-ties-to-son.html

And with this second set of revelations from Garrity in 2009, I change my mind. These are worse than the first set from Fisher in 2012.

Whaaaa? I have an accounting degree and have worked at a cpa firm, they never asked my friends or myself that.

Same for me except I worked several firms and interviewed from the Big 8 down to local firms, and all I can say is, you had an unusual experience. Read interview advice guides and you'll find it's the rule, not the exception. Nothing wrong with it.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

well, i always hire my fam and friends for the easy high paying stuff, so i get where he is coming from

 

[RoyToy]

Billy Hunted

 

[jlprk]

The union only has 31 employees, I think the article said. It represents only 450 members (players). It's tiny but there'a lot of money.

In America, it's par for the course for a 31-employee company to stock its jobs with the owner's relatives. But unions are held to a higher standard, since they usually represent so many members. But this one doesn't, making it harder to hide any intimacies from them. It does control a lot of money per capita, so its employees are as overpaid as the players, so the relatives are overpaid, so it looks worse than it is.

The second issue is worse, that Hunter hid a couple of these relationships from the players, and thus hid a conflict of interest. The article goes too far when it suggests that Hunter stretched out the strike so that his lawyer kids could make a few extra bucks.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Rhal]

So hunter makes more then the NFL/NBL head guys combined. Seems like the players need to slap the shit out of him and reduce his pay by over 50%.

 

[e_blazer]

Whoa! Now the Feds are in on the act:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7863236/us-attorney-investigating-nba-players-union

 

[3RA1N1AC]

is nepotism illegal all of the sudden?

 

[THE HCP]

^Not if you live in Alabama or Arkansas

 

[3RA1N1AC]

 

[jlprk]

While they're at it, why don't they find out what Stern, Silver, Stu Jackson, and the head of the referees make?

It would be especially interesting to audit each team's books and discover all the untaxed perks of ownership, like the owner's family using the team plane, etc.

I forgot. This affair is only for those who dislike unions.