Posted by djsunyc:

on a side note - what the league really needs is contraction. close up shop on 4 franchises: new orleans, charlotte, memphis and seattle. hold a contraction draft and each team's talent level immediately goes up.

I said that for years. Stern was too greedy with Toronto and Vancouver. That was not necessary. Stern now admits to be short sighted about some of these expanison teams but I guess that money must be hard to turn down when they put it in your face.

Posted by djsunyc:

on a side note - what the league really needs is contraction. close up shop on 4 franchises: new orleans, charlotte, memphis and seattle. hold a contraction draft and each team's talent level immediately goes up.

Add the Clips to that. No city should have two teams unless its NYC.

Charlotte is a homer city that just likes to be a part of somthing.
Seattles issue is a building, not attendance.
Milwaukee is irrelevant satillite of Chicago and does not deserve to have a team.
Memphis should at least change the name of its team if it won't close shop.
NO Hornets are in a bad market.
Oklahoma City is like Charlotte. Homers who need to feel legit by having a big time team.
Kansas City had a team. Lost it. Has an Arena so its entittled.

Teams that deserve cities are Norfok/Hampton Roads/Virginia beach. 3 million people live there! No pro sports!

Mexico City. 10 million people. Mexicans love the NBA! They love us!

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by djsunyc:

on a side note - what the league really needs is contraction. close up shop on 4 franchises: new orleans, charlotte, memphis and seattle. hold a contraction draft and each team's talent level immediately goes up.

Add the Clips to that. No city should have two teams unless its NYC.

Charlotte is a homer city that just likes to be a part of somthing.
Seattles issue is a building, not attendance.
Milwaukee is irrelevant satillite of Chicago and does not deserve to have a team.
Memphis should at least change the name of its team if it won't close shop.
NO Hornets are in a bad market.
Oklahoma City is like Charlotte. Homers who need to feel legit by having a big time team.
Kansas City had a team. Lost it. Has an Arena so its entittled.

Teams that deserve cities are Norfok/Hampton Roads/Virginia beach. 3 million people live there! No pro sports!

Mexico City. 10 million people. Mexicans love the NBA! They love us!

I didn't know that Mexicans were into the NBA. Do you think there enough fans in Mexico City who will come up with a high enough ticket price to keep an nba franchis going there?

Posted by Ira:

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by djsunyc:

on a side note - what the league really needs is contraction. close up shop on 4 franchises: new orleans, charlotte, memphis and seattle. hold a contraction draft and each team's talent level immediately goes up.

Add the Clips to that. No city should have two teams unless its NYC.

Charlotte is a homer city that just likes to be a part of somthing.
Seattles issue is a building, not attendance.
Milwaukee is irrelevant satillite of Chicago and does not deserve to have a team.
Memphis should at least change the name of its team if it won't close shop.
NO Hornets are in a bad market.
Oklahoma City is like Charlotte. Homers who need to feel legit by having a big time team.
Kansas City had a team. Lost it. Has an Arena so its entittled.

Teams that deserve cities are Norfok/Hampton Roads/Virginia beach. 3 million people live there! No pro sports!

Mexico City. 10 million people. Mexicans love the NBA! They love us!

I didn't know that Mexicans were into the NBA. Do you think there enough fans in Mexico City who will come up with a high enough ticket price to keep an nba franchis going there?

Perhaps not ticket prices but a large enough venue might work for volume. And for some reason I would think that jersey sales would be good but I am just guessing.

Posted by bitty41:

Hey you guys mention starting a team in Mexico City when it might end up being the Shanghai Dragons or the Paris Stompers.

Thing is about Mexico city is it's relatively CLOSE. Same timezones.

If I were the NBA, I'd extend the League in Vegas, Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin and go from there.

If I were West, I would be unhappy too if my team had a great chance at landing at least blue chipper and now the best they can do is walk away with a probable bust in Yi.