Sixers For Sale?

The Boston Globe had this interesting item buried deep within an NBA notes column yesterday. It said, in essence, Comcast was going to sell the Sixers almost imminently. Then it contained this sentence: “The Sixers’ announced attendance was down about 7.5 percent last season and the Allen Iverson-Chris Webber marriage seems to be working about as well as the Julia Roberts-Lyle Lovett union did.”

Okay, so that sentence should make you less likely to trust the article. But the Comcast Spectacor brass just issued a non-denial denial: “We receive expressions of interest from time to time…. we’re not actively selling the team.”

Which means… hey, maybe the team is for sale. Joe Juliano notes all the Sixers’ recent problems in an article in today’s Inquirer, but notes that the team is worth upwards of $351 million, according to Forbes.

It’d seem a little strange for Comcast to deal the 76ers, since they also own the Flyers and the stadium both teams play in. And, yeah, the attendance is dropping, but just five years ago the team had the highest attendance it ever had.

Still, there’s one nagging question that makes us think this report is just a bit off: Who in their right minds would want to buy the 76ers?

For sale: Philadelphia 76ers [Boston Globe, 2nd item]
Executive: Sixers not for sale [Inquirer]