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Was Tilman Fertitta financially prepared to purchase the Rockets?

Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta has earned the reputation of a penny-pinching sports owner, and his decision to consistently avoid paying the luxury tax has played a large part in that. But aside from that, Fertitta has made decisions regarding his other businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic that have earned him slander, which includes attempting to eliminate the benefits of the workers of his Post Oak hotel, not to mention laying off 70 percent of his employees before Houston was even under quarantine-mode.

Perhaps there’s another reason for Fertitta’s cost-cutting moves, and it might come as a surprise to many.