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I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

~Michael Heisley

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I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

~Michael Heisley

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I've made it clear for some time if somebody came up with the right offer, I'd consider selling the team. It wasn't a secret in Memphis or, really, around the country.

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I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

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Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.

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The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can't have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.

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If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

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I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

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I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

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I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 13th, 1937

Died: April 26th, 2014

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