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[edit] Jim Fitzgerald

Thanks for the comment on the talk page. Please make sure to also make corrections at Chris Cohan. By the way, do you have any sources on the internet that say $144 million? Thanks again, Bash Kash (talk) 01:23, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

The Warriors were privately owned and the sellers really didn't want to disclose the price. There was a lot of speculation at that time of the actual price of the team. That is why most press reports are wrong. Cohan already owned a portion of the team's stock (I think it was 25%) so he just had to pay for the remainder. To calculate the actual price, you had to take the amount he paid for his original stock and add what he paid for the rest. To settle the lawsuit, both groups met at an attorney's office in separate rooms and sent a piece of paper back and forth with a price for the team. The last entry was $142M and we still have the original paper. I remember seeing press reports from $130-145M. Just a little piece of NBA history.....Bfitz99 (talk) 15:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Very interesting. You appear to have a personal connection to Fitzgerald, so I can see how you are very knowledgeable on the subject. However, we must still respect the Wikipedia policy no original research. Unfortunately, we cannot add facts to articles based on your our personal experience (even though I trust that you are indeed accurate in your description). The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true. Therefore, do you have any reliable sources that state $144 million? It is important to cite a source especially since this is a biography of a living person. Hope you understand. Thanks, Bash Kash (talk) 05:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/10/SP74259.DTL This link says $146 million. It is interesting that Wiki wants "published verifiable sources" rather than actual facts. If you believe ANYTHING you read from a politician or sports team in a newspaper, you should have your head examined. Coaches are great sources of dis-information. We were constantly amazed by the "facts" we would read in the newspaper after various interviews. Sports writers rarely get it right and they ALWAYS add an angle or viewpoint to the story that doesn't exist. Quite frankly, I am very pleased to see newspapers going out of business all over the country.Bfitz99 (talk) 03:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)