Atlanta, Georgia rapper T.I. didn’t hesitate in expressing his lack of interest when it concerns purchasing the Atlanta Hawks. TMZ Sports recently caught up with the Hustle Gang helmsman who offered a detailed response as to why purchasing his hometown’s NBA franchise wouldn’t be a wise business decision.
According to T.I., despite owning a team, those with more money would still be in control of the franchise.
“The thing about owning a NBA franchise is you’ll never get bigger than the NBA,” T.I. said. “So, whatever it is that you do it’ll be controlled by a bunch of other people who probably have more money than you and who been involved with the organization for longer than you. So, you won’t be able to do a lot of things that you want to do. So, I’m not interested.”
T.I. was also asked about the Atlanta Falcons, who recently concluded their 6-10 season with a loss to the Carolina Panthers. The Southern wordsmith stated that he was disappointed in the team and then added that a new running back and head coach are needed.
“Yeah, but I’m more excited about the Hawks’ season…I love Matt Ryan, man,” he said. “I don’t think we should get rid of him. We need a new running back and we need a new coach. I think the defensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks—I think that was a pretty good choice for ‘em.”
The Atlanta Hawks are currently up for sale following a racist email the team’s former owner, Bruce Levenson allegedly sent last year.
For more on T.I., view the DX Daily below:
what he meant to say was he cant afford to be interested in purchasing the atlanta hawks
my thoughts exactly.
Please shut the hell up TI.
The NBA would not allow you to be an owner. What would the NBA look like with an ex con who can’t keep himself out of jail with an ugly wife?
Stick to riding Iggy Azaleas coatails and jocking Floyd Mayweather because your Wife is a groupie
Nelly and Usher got in. Why not T.I?
He has nowhere near the type of bread it takes to own an NBA team
Tip doesn’t have the chips, for all his rubber bands, to buy the Hawks franchise. For him to swing the deal by himself, he’d have to be a billionaire or darn-near one. At best, he could only hope to have some type of relatively small minority stake, like Jay Z had, then try to swing some other type of front office consultant role like in the Marketing department or something. He would never be “the boss” of the organization. Hopefully some forward thinking coalition of minority investors can still come together– same goes for the empty NFL team slot in Los Angeles.
this reminds me of when Ross was talking about buying the clippers
This guy is still paying off his legal fees. Please, there is nothing popping over at Grand Hustle. He doesn’t earn a dime on Iggy. He just get a small fee. She is with Def Jam and Virgin.
I had no idea Tip’s accountant comments on HHDX. Nice!
why is that so surprising? YMCMB’s account and Ricky Rozays personal confidante have both posted on HHDX over the years. Shout outs to dentaldamboy and Rozay O’Donnell.
So no one has ever heard of buying a business as a group? Usher and belly are part owners of teams so yea he definitely don’t have enough to buy one but I’m sure he has enough to go in with a group to buy a team but hey I guess yall know how it goes.
LOL @ y’all clowns like y’all know what t.i. bank look like. he living his life while you broke muthafuckas with lint in your pocket hatin’.
It’s called google