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Um what's ms.benson planning on doing
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Um what's ms.benson planning on doing
This could help him in the ROY Race
God we just got the best kid
Meanwhile Gayle Benson is trending on Twitter nationally
This is an amazing gesture and a great sign of him being a leader in his community but this kid's a 19 year old on a rookie contract. This leadership should be starting with Gayle Benson, the team's owner with a net worth of $3 billion https://t.co/LQuo2iWOxV
— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) March 13, 2020
Gayle Benson, 73 years old - $3.2 billion
— aims (@yungaims) March 13, 2020
Zion Williamson, 19 years old - $8 million
It’s not the job of a 19 year old rookie, when Gayle Benson net worth is 400 times more than him.
19-year old kid showing more generosity than Gayle Benson who owns the Pelicans and has a net worth of $3 billion https://t.co/MjaT03ooJs
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) March 13, 2020
Hundreds of tweets like this right now!
I’m just grateful we have such a great man and Zion. If Gayle wants to be a snob we’ll at least we have a good man in Zion.
And on and on
This is an AMAZING thing for Zion Williamson to do, but Gayle Benson is worth over $3 BILLION
— Eric Rosenthal (@ericsports) March 13, 2020
Maybe team owners should be the ones paying arena workers? https://t.co/T0z9bbS2nz
Great human. Also multi-billionaire Gayle Benson should've done this already https://t.co/njpH9zDmxv
— Jason Kirk, social distancing expert (@thejasonkirk) March 13, 2020
This is actually really messed up, maybe Gayle Benson (who is a billionaire) can take a few million dollars from her pedophile priest defense fund and pay her employees sick leave https://t.co/6tsYpNbz19
— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) March 13, 2020
This is awesome by Zion.
— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) March 13, 2020
But, by the way, Pelicans owner Gayle Benson is worth $2.8 billion. https://t.co/A5gRz5SjKb
Yup. I see she is trending
And I agree
Zion is an incredible kid. And Gayle is an incredible owner. I am sure she does plenty...I know she does plenty of charitable things. Like millions$$$ of things. She just doesn't announce it on FB And Twitter.
Yeah, Zion is awesome and this is great of him.
Shouldn't be his responsibility. Like others have said, billionaire ownership should be doing it.
Just a matter of Zion volunteering to do it before the owner did.
Bad optics on timing and no slight on Mrs B is all Im taking from it.
I mean, aren't other players doing similar things around the league? I know one player is doing this in the NHL. Do we know for sure the stadium workers weren't going to get paid? Is it possible this only looks bad because Zion announced this before the organization had a chance to announce anything publicly? All of this is really uncharted territory and news is changing by the hour.
Other players have also pledged to do similar, yes. Blake Griffin, Giannis, Kevin Love.
Some other owners, like Mark Cuban, have also already confirmed they will do it.
The response the Pelicans put out to Zions announcement is that they had been discussing something with the Smoothie King Centre ownership to work something out, before Zion came out and said he would do it. They said it was somewhat complicated due to only being renters of the building, which is why there had been no announcement yet.
I don't really buy it; they can't announce that they will be doing something cause they're only renters so it's difficult, but Zion can commit? Even if it's true that they were working on something, it's dreadful PR. Should have put out an early statement to the effect of "details will be confirmed at a later date, but Mrs Benson and the New Orleans Pelicans will be doing all they can to ensure arena staff are properly compensated for the time that will be missed during the NBA suspension".
I have a friend that is an usher. ASM nor the Pelicans have not communicated with them other than to tell them the games are canceled. Credit Zion for stepping up to the plate. The Pelicans & ASM piggybacked on it knowing they would get the backlash. I guess that is how Coperate Trump America is these days. Let us not let this take away the awesome thing Zion did.
Bravo Zion! You have won New Orleans Zion.
She will have to do something if she cares about her image.
It’s just a reason to turn a wonderful story into a cheap shot at a billionaire. Gayle has been a good owner and I’d bet she would have stepped in. Poor stuff from talking heads and Twitter dunces
Props to Zion's mom as well, this lady raised such a wonderful human being! You can tell that mom instilled great values to her kids.
And does anyone have an indication of what Gayle's plans are? We have no idea if she already had something similar in the works, or how expansive it might be. Remember, she's not a Mark Cuban, who will praise himself to the masses just to get airtime.
It was late because she took so long that a player already stepped in and did it. Mark Cuban, who I don't like for other reasons, stated he'd be covering Mavs staff within 6 hours of the shut-down; is Mark Cuban not busy with other things? Does he not own other stuff, and have other employees?
instead of people just being happy that the low paying workers will be compensate during this outbreak,, jealous people who live pay check to pay check saw a quick opportunity to take a shot at a billionaire smh........it should not matter who is paying for it,,just be happy for those workers....
Mark Cuban loves the spotlight. Of course he went public immediately. Gayle's not that type of person. Doesn't mean she wasn't already working on a plan. You're focusing on the NBA ONLY as the be-all and end-all of the world. There's much more in play here. Gayle's been a damn good owner. Maybe go call out the other 20+ teams that still haven't made a statement yet.
Also, SKC employees are not Pels staff. Cuban's paying for Mavs staff. Is he also paying for the American Airlines Arena employees?
This. For all we know Gayle was working out the finer details behind closed doors and Zion spoke publicly before they could work everything out.
If nobody had come out with this publicly, I doubt anyone would even mention Gayle or any of the owners. It’s just people desperate for a negative angle.
Which is exactly what happened. Everyone throwing shade at Gayle for all of this is sooooo annoying.
Based on my limited knowledge —
— Scott Kushner (@ScottDKushner) March 13, 2020
The Pels were in discussions with the vendor (who controls salaries) but were dealing w an unknown timetable of NBA suspension, contracts, etc...so it wasn’t yet completed.
Then Zion just offered on his own to step in and handle 30 days of it. https://t.co/6znaKwNMJz