The market they play in has value, the team is an absolute drain on league finances and has been forever. This experiment has failed, if they were to leave to say Houston or Atlanta net effect would be positive. I don't cheer for them to move and think a healthy team is AZ would be cool, but they are 7-10 years away from MAYBE being relevant.
The average fan's concern for a small group of people worth billions of dollars, whose franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars if not a few billion dollars, who have little to no concern about sending several million dollars to prop up another team for whatever reason, has always and will always be fascinating to me.
It's incredibly fascinating knowing that even if [insert franchise] wasn't being "propped up" via whatever egregious manners alleged, it wouldn't drop prices on tickets, concessions, merchandise, parking or anything else that fans spend money on by one penny. All that money would flow straight to the bank accounts of the owners, who'd probably then raise prices on everything a little more.
Is Voracek's contract insured?
No one knows. It might have been in part or in full, but it also depends on whether concussions were excluded from coverage.
He was only getting $1.25 million in salary this season. [He had a $5 million signing bonus, which isn't subject to insurance in any scenario.] Maybe this season's salary was fully insured and concussions weren't excluded; next season he's due $7.5 million and I'll guarantee it won't be fully insured - it will only be covered up to whatever amount was covered this season.