Remembering Ozzie Silna And The Greatest Deal In Sports History

Ozzie Silna, former owner of the ABA's Spirits of St. Louis has passed away at age 83. We revisit the deal that made him and his brother ...

With Ozzie Silna's passing, it's time to remember the greatest deal in ...

With Ozzie Silna's passing, it's time to remember the greatest deal in sports history ... Ozzie Silna never owned an NBA team, or really had much ...

A Defunct Team And The Greatest Sports Deal Ever

In 1974, brothers Ozzie and Dan Silna, flush with cash from the sale of their textile business, bought the ABA's failing Carolina Cougars ...

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He struck perhaps the best deal in the history of sports, but Ozzie Silna's own athletic career was short. As a kid in the 1940s he played ...

They Negotiated the GREATEST Deal in Sports History! - YouTube

... Silna Brothers In 2014, the Silna brothers, Ozzie and Daniel, were earning hundreds of millions of dollars from the NBA through TV royalties ...

Revisiting 'The Greatest Sports Deal Of All Time' - Forbes

Here's what's known: Thirty-five years ago this June two brothers, Ozzie and Daniel Silna, along with their lawyer, Donald Schupak, negotiated ...

The St. Louis Spirit and the "Greatest Sports Deal Ever"

In 1974, brothers Ozzie and Dan Silna, flush with cash from the sale of their textile business, bought the ABA's failing Carolina Cougars ...

The Greatest Business Deal In Sports History - Lucid Travel

Today I'll be breaking down what's widely considered the greatest business deal in sports history, the story of Ozzie and Daniel Silna, and how ...

The Story Of How The Silna Brothers Turned $1 Million Into $800 ...

"The Story Of How The Silna Brothers Turned $1 Million Into $800 Million Without Owning An NBA Team: .....Two years before the end of the ABA, Ozzie and...

Payout May Come for an A.B.A. Team That Is Long Gone

... Ozzie and Daniel Silna, brothers who owned a now-defunct A.B.A. team ... But their deal, widely called the greatest in sports history, if not ...

1 NBA MEDIA RIGHTS SPIRITED AWAY: THE SILNA BROTHERS ...

8 The “deal is as much a part of [ABA] history as red, white and ... Monte Burke, Revisiting 'The Greatest Sports Deal of All Time', FORBES, MAY 12, 2011,.

In Perpetuity: The Story of the Silna Brothers - 20 Second Timeout

The Silnas received about $2.2 million in compensation for their former players who were signed by NBA teams. Since the Silnas' deal was ...

ABA team owner and envied dealmaker Ozzie Silna dies

Ozzie Silna, who turned a fading American Basketball ... greatest deal in sports history, has died at age 83.

4 Lessons from the Greatest Business Deal in Sports History | Inc.com

In 1974, Ozzie Silna and his younger brother, Daniel, bought the failing Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association for about $1 ...

No Team, No Ticket Sales, but Plenty of Cash - The New York Times

Thanks to a provision in the merger of the N.B.A. and the A.B.A. in 1976, former A.B.A. team owners Ozzie and Daniel Silna have earned $255 ...

NBA to pay brothers who owned defunct team $500M to end deal ...

But their deal, dubbed widely as the greatest deal in sports history, if not in American business, lives on as a remnant of the marriage of ...

Even though the Colonels were one of... - The ABA Remembered

... greatest business deals in the history of sports. When the NBA accepted ... As creative as Brown was, it pails in comparison to what the Silna brothers, Ozzie and ...

Spirits\' demise meant a lifetime of cash for Silnas - The Herald-Times

of the architects of arguably the best sports deal - and maybe one ... Approximate yearly take for Ozzie and Daniel Silna and their ...

NBA Negotiating with Silna Brothers to Remedy Their Egregious ...

The New York Times' Richard Sandomir reports the NBA is on the brink of severing the deal that has garnered the Silna brothers about $300 ...

The greatest sports deal of all time - Basketball Network

The Silnas would receive about $2.2 million for any Spirits players drafted by NBA teams. On top of that, the Silnas would also get a 1/7th ...