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Kings New Logo

Can you provide an example of something specific he has done in the past couple of years that really shows he has a solid understanding of sports? Because all I've seen is a narcissistic child who complains the loudest when things don't go his way, and has tried to make the league look foolish on more than one occasion.

Smith being an eccentric person with sometimes questionable tweets aside, I think the Kings have done well the last few years.

Hopefully the Hawks ownership is strong, has longevity, puts additional capital and diversity of ownership into the NBL.

It's not ideal having a few owners taking control of multiple teams. I understand the NBL/LK doing it to establish new teams, however the aim as best possible ought to be to divest to owners with capital not invested into other NBL sides.

One day maybe 3% of Sydney people will know who they are instead of the 2% that do now

Well if Paul Smith is a liar then he has form, like during the Grand Final series.

inb4 Harbour Bridge Trust wants $50K.

Why do people sprout off garbage as fact when its not. The Kings allegedly spent $1mill on outdoor advertising, bus? during the season.

Lol. They did not

Perthworld then perpetuares the myth. "This from the guy who paid $1mil for a billboard last season." Seriously? Douche.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/basketball/nbl-riding-wave-of-popularity-but-financial-gains-are-slow-to-follow/news-story/0c50fd4d805b86442a870b3b3a9947c6

Enjoy.

I've been sitting on this for a while to let the anon(s) make fools of themselves:

Sydney Kings owner Paul Smith, who sold sports consultancy Repucom in a $US195m deal in 2016, says he will lose several million dollars this year.

“But we are investing and can handle it,” Smith says. “We needed to do that to get the fans back to the Kings. We even spent $1m this year on a billboard advertising campaign, but we think that worked.

The scariest part is the Kings might end up with a logo as amateur as the Wildcats logo. They definitely paid a an employee’s 13 year old kid $50 for that eyesore.

What? They spent a million dollars on billboard advertising alone.

Read the comments on that tweet, someone asks him if he had the option to pay it which he refused to answer, he replies... but with a smart ass comment.

Its more that he blaming the league. You can blame the Opera house trust for upping the price but its not the leagues fault if the owner doesn't want to fork out to keep his brand.

Wether he had the option or didn’t is irrelevant, why would anyone with half a brain pay 50g a year for a symbol when you can change it and pay nothing.

Did not read the articles so hope I'm not being repetitious:

My priorities would probably be towards putting my money into my team rather than my logo. My logo won't win me too many games!

If it's a choice between Bogurt/Ware or logo-feature, I'm putting a cheaper logo-feature on my players. Bogurt may even pose as the logo-feature, he is (nearly) an Aussie icon, no?

Read the comments on that tweet, someone asks him if he had the option to pay it which he refused to answer, he replies... but with a smart ass comment.

The Smith quote for those interested - on Twitter:

it’s important that we are clear for our fans. @SydneyKings do not own the logos, the NBL owns them. The Sydney Kings had no role whatsoever in deciding whether the fee to the Opera House was reasonable. It was exclusively a decision by the NBL Melbourne.

— Paul Smith (@psmithtse) August 7, 2020

Kings approached Violet Crumbles management with a view to incorporating the iconic chocolate bar manufacturers as part of logo but they didn't want to be associated with such an underperforming franchise.

Survey harbour bridge doesn’t look like Golden Gate Bridge/Oakland bridge so nothing?

Smith claiming that it was NBL decision but refused to say whether he he had the option to pay the money to keep the logo.

NBL may own the logo but I doubt they'd force a team to rebrand without discussion.

Luckily here in Perth we don't have any iconic buildings to feature in a logo, just a try-hard bell tower.

I’m not certain Ware or Bogut salary got anything to do with having to find $50g every year to keep the old logo. It seems pretty smart to me. At least the highest paid player now is Cotton so you will have to find something else to complain about.

As far as Smith goes at least he’s got funds to pay players and put on a good product, if most other clubs had a Smith the league would be a lot better.

I find it hilarious that $50k is too much to continue their iconic brand, but they are happy to give equity to Bogut as well as pay overs for Bogut and Ware (who was the highest paid import last year, more than Cotton, Trimble, Hopson, Machado, Patterson and Oliver).

Then again I don't mind if Sydney want to lose part of their branding.

Go Smith.