{"id":1658,"date":"2009-07-10T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2009-07-10T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T06:42:04","slug":"praise-to-commitment48-minutes-of-hell-blog-archive-in-appreciation-of-peter-holt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/10\/praise-to-commitment48-minutes-of-hell-blog-archive-in-appreciation-of-peter-holt\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise To Commitment::48 Minutes of Hell \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb In Appreciation of Peter Holt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brave <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Peter Holt\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Holt\">Peter Holt<\/a>! This is why San Antonio has been a model franchise for mre than a decade! The Right people doing the right things!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Holt took a serious financial hit yesterday and he did so for the good of the franchise you love.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s hard to feel sympathy for a man whose <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Net worth\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Net_worth\">net worth<\/a> is counted not just in millions but in tens of millions, but compare Holt\u2019s situation to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mark Cuban\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1171860\/\">Mark Cuban<\/a>\u2019s, whose net worth is presumed to be north of $2 billion, and you begin to recognize the commitment Holt is making to the franchise. When the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dallas Mavericks\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dallas_Mavericks\">Mavericks<\/a> head into the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Luxury tax (sports)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luxury_tax_%28sports%29\">luxury tax<\/a>, Cuban hardly feels the prick of a pin. Holt and the rest of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"San Antonio Spurs\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Antonio_Spurs\">Spurs<\/a> ownership group commit a significant fraction of the franchise\u2019s net worth to the team\u2019s success.<br \/>\nMr. Holt\u2019s financial commitment to the team is significant to no one more than the 3 individuals we adore most: <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tim Duncan\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slamduncan.com\/\">Tim Duncan<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Manu Gin\u00f3bili\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili\">Manu Ginobili<\/a>, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tony Parker\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Parker\">Tony Parker<\/a>. Whether by only requesting reasonable contracts or restructuring their contracts to allow the team to acquire the necessary supporting cast, over the last several years the big three have done their part to ensure the Spurs are in a position to compete for championships. By allowing the front office to take the steps they took today, Holt has kept up his end of the bargain.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.48minutesofhell.com\/2009\/07\/09\/in-appreciation-of-peter-holt\/\">48 Minutes of Hell \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb In Appreciation of Peter Holt<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/bf4d966e-0a54-4603-b2e4-8e413037aa4c\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave Peter Holt! This is why San Antonio has been a model franchise for mre than a decade! The Right people doing the right things! Peter Holt took a serious financial hit yesterday and he did so for the good of the franchise you love. It\u2019s hard to feel sympathy for a man whose net &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/10\/praise-to-commitment48-minutes-of-hell-blog-archive-in-appreciation-of-peter-holt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Praise To Commitment::48 Minutes of Hell \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb In Appreciation of Peter Holt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[409,878,892,1092,1242,1409,1422],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praise","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-manu-ginobili","tag-mark-cuban","tag-peter-holt","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tony-parker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}