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there's already not enough elite players to fill the league but whatever i'm down for more basketball

ppl seem to think that maybe louisville or nashville would be in play for the other spot. nashville apparently tried to get the raptors this season. tampa would also be in play given this season

J0rdan S., Friday, 8 January 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link

just looked at metro area populations and the biggest ones w/o teams in order are san diego tampa baltimore vegas and austin tho the nba im sure looks at a larger area than that like all those places except vegas have teams fairly close, but they all also do have successful teams in other sports too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistical_areas

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link

I wonder who would get the 32nd team. Jacksonville? Baltimore?

― Fetchboy, Friday, January 8, 2021 2:54 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

would love it if they brought basketball back to st. louis

boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link

yeah wld support that

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link

actually missed st louis shd be in the middle of my list

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link

and does not have a nearby team too

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link

i've heard vancouver (though that may be more of a wishful thinking thing), louisville, nashville, and vegas.

i'm pretty agnostic on expansion, great for the cities that get teams but the league will dilute for a bit.

call all destroyer, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link

goon we don't want a st. louis team because jayson tatum will want to play there!

call all destroyer, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link

hmm mb youre right

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link

yeah but not for a while since they'll be a low-talent expansion team

boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link

come back to Vancouver NBA (silver reads this thread right)

Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link

NASHVILLE

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link

wonder what the nba looks for in an expansion city, a state of the art arena is obvs at the top of the list but past that im not sure, there must be some demographic profile or whatever

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link

im assuming vegas has the arena considering they just got a hockey team

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link

growing population and not a declining one

J0rdan S., Friday, 8 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link

just throw another on in LA

a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link

from listening to various podcasts the main thing is having an ownership group who is willing/able to pay the money for a team and bring it to city x. kansas city built a nice arena some years ago hoping it would attract a team but no billionaire was inclined to take a team there

J0rdan S., Friday, 8 January 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link

wld think you could always find someone to buy in but i guess not

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link

lot easier to find a buyer for something turnkey but starting from scratch is a whole different beast.

a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link

The municipality should buy the team imo, Seattle could float a bond measure to pay the expansion fee and it’d probably pass lol

Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link

otm

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link

they mayor should be the gm and get voted out if they suck

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link

wonder what the nba looks for in an expansion city, a state of the art arena is obvs at the top of the list but past that im not sure, there must be some demographic profile or whatever

― lag∞n, Friday, January 8, 2021 3:45 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

basically-- nba-ready arena, the type of economy that can fill luxury boxes, and someone with 2 billion dollars who wants a team there.

call all destroyer, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link

they should pass a law called "bezos give us $2.5B in sonic bucks or we blow your head off"

trans-panda express (m bison), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link

tampa is the largest market w/o an nba team incl seattle fyi. but they have that dgaf florida fanbase so idk.

trans-panda express (m bison), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link

they should pass a law called "bezos give us $2.5B in sonic bucks or we blow your head off"

― trans-panda express (m bison), Friday, January 8, 2021 4:12 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

put it on the ballot

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link

w/ OKC i heard it explained as like... they got a team bcuz clay bennett's ownership group had the money to buy a team and wanted to put it in OKC & stern decided to make it happen. but it's not like OKC was identified as the single most desired location for a new NBA team

J0rdan S., Friday, 8 January 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link

didnt he promise not to move them to okc at some point

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link

yeah clay bennett and the okc business community really put on the full-court press to get a team. they had the track record of the hornets season there which could have helped selling the nba on okc as a good market. also it's one of those places with more money than ppl think.

call all destroyer, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link

sorta indifferent-to-against expansion but seattle and vegas would be cool

k3vin k., Friday, 8 January 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link

yeah im prob against expansion for expansions sake but seattle 500% needs a team and might as well do another to keep the numbers even

lag∞n, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link

my opinion is that more teams is good

trans-panda express (m bison), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link

more teams = more hoops = more 2 luv

trans-panda express (m bison), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link

nah man it's all about the product

k3vin k., Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link

have u considered that maybe quantity IS better than quality?

trans-panda express (m bison), Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link

lol

lag∞n, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link

idk for sickos like us the worst days of the week are like the tuesdays and saturdays when there's no good games and diluting the talent pool more doesn't really solve that does it?

k3vin k., Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:02 (three years ago) link

too many lame franchises in places that dont really care about them already

lag∞n, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link

moving would be a much better solution than expanding.

call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link

yeah but the nbas not going to force anyones hand

lag∞n, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link

they can just makes new teams tho

lag∞n, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link

u need 2 read more about MMT (modern make-more-teams theory or just make more teams or MMT 4 short)

trans-panda express (m bison), Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link

lol

lag∞n, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link

u, a 20th century bird brain: more teams will dilute the talent pool
me, a 22nd century time traveling superstar: more teams = more hoops fans = more future talent

checkmate

trans-panda express (m bison), Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link

lol

k3vin k., Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link

will probably also mean league pass prices go up $_$

k3vin k., Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link

all of yall criminals stream illegally anyway

trans-panda express (m bison), Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:20 (three years ago) link

we have already established that silver reads our threads (adam, hello) so please do not out our community as thieves who should be in jail

Clay, Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link

anyways i am up for expansion if the teams are out west where there are not enough teams and i don't care much about "dilution" there's 30 very good basketball players out there i guarantee this

Clay, Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link

if were to accidentally click on an internet link and an nba game should play in the background while im going about my day i can hardly be blamed

lag∞n, Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link


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