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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 1038185, member: 214"] the revenue of the team might go down, but not its value. The minute the franchise gets listed for sale, its value will skyrocket. Major sports franchises in very large cities are not available very often, and the bidding will go through the roof: When MLB seized the Dodgers from Frank McCourt in 2011, the team was valued at $800M and people thought it was a stretch that it would get $1 billion. But when the sale was finalized a year later, it went for $2.15 billion, more than 2 1/2 times its original valuation - and the final tally didn't even include the valuable parking concession, which McCourt was allowed to keep. Forbes values the Clips at $575M . . . I'll bet they go for at least $200M above that number, maybe up to a billion. People in LA are throwing around names like Dr. Dre as the next owner, but even as wealthy as he is, the final cost will not allow him to be anything more than a managing partner [/QUOTE]