Winning!
| Team | Year | Owner | W | L | W% |
| Dallas Mavericks | 2000 | Mark Cuban | 620 | 282 | 69% |
| San Antonio Spurs | 1993 | Spurs Sports & Entertainment (Peter Holt, Chairman & CEO) | 976 | 486 | 67% |
| Los Angeles Lakers | 1979 | Jerry Buss | 1720 | 872 | 66% |
| Phoenix Suns | 2004 | Robert Sarver | 372 | 202 | 65% |
| Chicago Bulls | 1985 | Jerry Reinsdorf | 1145 | 644 | 64% |
| Utah Jazz | 1985 | Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment (Greg Miller, CEO) | 1279 | 821 | 61% |
| Cleveland Cavaliers | 2005 | Dan Gilbert, Gary Gilbert, Dan Katzman, Usher Raymond, Gordon Gund | 291 | 201 | 59% |
| Portland Trail Blazers | 1988 | Paul Allen | 1056 | 798 | 57% |
| Boston Celtics | 2002 | Boston Basketball Partners, LLC. (H. Irving Grousbeck, Wycliffe Grousbeck, Stephen Pagliuca, The Abbey Group) | 416 | 322 | 56% |
| Houston Rockets | 1993 | Leslie Alexander | 807 | 637 | 56% |
| Miami Heat | 1995 | Micky Arison | 714 | 566 | 56% |
| Orlando Magic | 1991 | Orlando Magic, Ltd. (RDV Sports, Inc., Richard DeVos, Chairman) | 873 | 735 | 54% |
| Denver Nuggets | 2000 | Kroenke Sports Enterprise (Stan Kroenke) | 432 | 388 | 53% |
| Sacramento Kings | 1998 | Maloof Companies (Joe Maloof, Gavin Maloof, Phil Maloof, George J. Maloof, Jr., Adrienne Maloof-Nassif), Robin E. Hernreich | 532 | 502 | 51% |
| Indiana Pacers | 1983 | Herbert Simon | 1135 | 1129 | 50% |
| Philadelphia 76ers | 1996 | Comcast Spectacor (Ed Snider, Chairman) | 575 | 623 | 48% |
| Milwaukee Bucks | 1985 | Herb Kohl | 982 | 1118 | 47% |
| Minnesota Timberwolves | 1995 | Glen Taylor | 579 | 701 | 45% |
| Toronto Raptors | 1998 | Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (Richard Peddie, CEO) | 457 | 577 | 44% |
| Golden State Warriors | 2010 | Peter Guber, Joe Lacob | 36 | 46 | 44% |
| Oklahoma City Thunder | 2006 | Professional Basketball Club, LLC. (Clayton Bennett, Chairman) | 178 | 231 | 44% |
| New York Knicks | 1997 | Madison Square Garden, Inc. (James Dolan, Chairman) | 489 | 652 | 43% |
| Charlotte Bobcats | 2010 | Michael Jordan | 34 | 48 | 41% |
| Memphis Grizzlies | 2000 | Michael Heisley | 372 | 530 | 41% |
| Los Angeles Clippers | 1981 | Donald Sterling | 834 | 1594 | 34% |
| New Jersey Nets | 2010 | Mikhail Prokhorov, Bruce Ratner, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter | 24 | 58 | 29% |
| Washington Wizards | 2010 | Monumental Sports & Entertainment (Ted Leonsis) | 23 | 59 | 28% |
| Atlanta Hawks | 2011 | Meruelo Group (Alex Meruelo, Owner) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Detroit Pistons | 2011 | Tom Gores, Palace Sports & Entertainment | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| New Orleans Hornets | 2010 | National Basketball Association | N/A | N/A | N/A |
- *Owner list from Wikipedia (via Hoopshype)
- *W/L records via Basketball-Reference
With all the talk about failing and successful ownership I figured a fun thing to look at would be the success rate of each current ownership in the NBA. The above table shows how well each NBA franchise has done since their current regeme took over. Cuban has been the most successful and should be very proud. Sterling has been impressively bad. Some of the newer ownerships inherited bad teams so we’ll have to wait and see what they do.
-Dre
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