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

and does not have a nearby team too

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.

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

hmm mb youre right

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

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

NASHVILLE

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

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

growing population and not a declining one

just throw another on in LA

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

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

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

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

otm

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

my opinion is that more teams is good

more teams = more hoops = more 2 luv

nah man it's all about the product

have u considered that maybe quantity IS better than quality?

lol

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?

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

moving would be a much better solution than expanding.

yeah but the nbas not going to force anyones hand

they can just makes new teams tho

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

lol

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

lol

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

all of yall criminals stream illegally anyway

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

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

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

very troubling to learn today during these difficult times that our beloved mob is in fact a sworn officer of the peace aka a police officer

*mod sure but i believe we call that a "freudian slip"

lol

i just believe v strongly in supporting the arts, and if u download hoops illegally u r making it harder for hoopers to feed their families