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LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?
Three. Billion. Dollars.
That's what the team is worth and what it was sold for a year ago...
Not expensive for a literal NBA team.
If a PS5 is too expensive to give away, then don't pretend to give one away.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this.
Why? It's a few hundred dollars, not a car or something.
Compared to the marketing expenses of even very small companies, a PS5 is so ridiculously cheap that these costs are not even worth mentioning.
I meant expensive for a kid. Of course, yes.
Sure. But the Hornets aren't interested in the child, they're only interested in marketing. The only way I can explain this is that either some employee wanted the PS5 and just took it from the kid or the Hornets' marketing department thinks that even bad publicity is free publicity. Maybe they intentionally planned for the predictable media coverage on this matter because it also brings attention. If the Hornets wanted to buy this kind of exposure, that paltry $500 wouldn't even begin to cover it.
It could have literally been a tax write off
It could have been a glitch in tax calculator tbh. Not my point. And I agree with you. "LOL. Cheap bastards" was my point.
yeah, anything under 1000 was a rounding error.
Budget lint
The team has revenue in the millions. They'd never have noticed the money. This should be in the dictionary under Penny Wise, Pound Foolish.
That’s coincidentally the name of my last porno.
Kinda reminiscent of various Russian official events involving children.