The shareholders will continue to have internal conflicts, and will continue to be tight-fisted when it comes to renewals and bringing in new talent.
It's quite normal for team owners to be tight-fisted; not everyone sees money as dirt, not everyone has to have such a passion for basketball, not everyone is willing to sacrifice everything for the championship.
Roger wouldn't say that a stingy owner is a bad person; you can't prevent him from doing business just because he doesn't love basketball that much.
But to be fair, stingy owners definitely don't deserve to have the greatest players.
Michael Gillen saw Roger was determined to leave, so he played his last card: "Are you going to abandon this city? Abandon your fans? Leave those kids who love you? Are you really going to do this, Roger?"
Roger laughed; did he really think this argument could make him yield?
