Do You Want An NBA Team In Seattle?

[ABM]

Well?

 

[Natebishop3]

Yes.... I'm tired of all the bullshit rumors about the Blazers going up there.

 

[ABM]

Yes.... I'm tired of all the bullshit rumors about the Blazers going up there.

Indeed!

Rep'd

 

[KingSpeed]

Not if they're the Trail Blazers

 

[ABM]

I just read this:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...ng-buy-sacramento-kings-raises-205356882.html

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Absolutely.

 

[ABM]

*cough*Trolling for Ed O.*cough*

 

[Wheels]

F*** that Fishing Village

 

[Wheels]

I voted Indifferent though lol /+1 Post Count

 

[THE HCP]

There wasn't a FUCK YES option! I want our rivals back!

 

[BigGameDamian]

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[OregonHuskerMan]

Why wouldn't we?? Good for the Northwest.

 

[maxiep]

Yes.... I'm tired of all the bullshit rumors about the Blazers going up there.

Seattle is a big enough market to support two NBA teams

 

[maxiep]

I want to keep a team in Sacramento and have one in Seattle. It's only two games, but swap out a trip to say, Minnesota, and it helps road fatigue. Due to our location and (now) isolation, we fly more miles than any other team.

 

[jlprk]

I'm the first no!

I just love to be the bane of the board.

We Washingtonians don't need no team, man, we got the Blazers, you know what I mean?

I predict the new Sonics will lose money and be gone in less than 10 years.

 

[NOVoodoo]

I'd like to see Seattle get a team, but more than anything, I don't want to see the league expand, and I want to see small market teams protected, so it's a bit of a catch-22. The league's watered down enough to expand to 32 teams, but I'd hate to see a team get poached from a city like Sacramento.

 

[OregonHuskerMan]

Would love to see Charlotte, Orlando, New Orleans and Minny evaporated. Would help the league tremendously, IMO.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Would love to see Charlotte, Orlando, New Orleans and Minny evaporated. Would help the league tremendously, IMO.

Honestly, I love New Orleans, I lived there for the last five years and will probably wind up living there permanently soon, but with that said, they don't deserve an NBA team.

New Orleans really doesn't support their team like most cities do. They have some of the best fans in the NFL, but they could give two shits about the Hornets, even when they were winning. It's the Saints' town, and outside of that, they host so many sporting events and entertainment events, that the Hornets are an afterthought. I've been to tons of games in the New Orleans Arena, and it's probably one of the worst arenas I've been to, not just in terms of the arena itself but the fan support as well. Every time I went to a Hornets game, I got the same feeling that I got from going to minor league baseball games.

 

[OregonHuskerMan]

Detroit probably doesn't deserve a team either, but they've been demolished by the economy and have a lot more history.

Anyway, the quality of basketball would be a lot higher.

 

[jlprk]

Poor New Orleans doesn't have the population. I remember the Kansas City-Omaha Kings splitting cities. Why doesn't the NBA have a team that travels around. 5 games per city per season. Name them the Globetrotters.

 

[illmatic99]

625mil for the freakin Kings. I'm pissed that the Maloofs are going to be rewarded for their stupidity and poor management

 

[OregonHuskerMan]

I just want basketball back in Seattle. Sacramento sucks. Can't believe they are getting (double?) the evaluation of the Grizz.

 

[NOVoodoo]

I just want basketball back in Seattle. Sacramento sucks. Can't believe they are getting (double?) the evaluation of the Grizz.

I think one thing that hurts the purchase price of the Grizz versus the Kings is that potential to move the team. The Grizz have a ridiculous lease with the FedEx Forum and a buyout clause with the city that makes it unreasonable for any prospective buyer to move the team for years to come, whereas the Kings are pretty much boxed up and ready to move.

When Pera's cheap ass bought the Grizzlies, there were rumors that he was trying to move the team to San Diego, but there was no way any owner short of a Paul Allen could have afforded such a move. That's why we came at a discount... a poor and economically decling city, average attendance, a team without marketable stars, but a team that's still impossible to move to a bigger market for at least the next decade, unless the owner wants to pay more than what they're worth.

I'm more surprised that the Hornets sold for cheap, because they're not as contractually obligated to stay with their city as much as the Grizz are, but with the league owning the team, they still sold them to the Benson family, who will more than likely never move the team, unless they receive an offer they can't refuse, like this recent Sactown offer.

 

[MARIS61]

I'm the first no!

I just love to be the bane of the board.

We Washingtonians don't need no team, man, we got the Blazers, you know what I mean?

I predict the new Sonics will lose money and be gone in less than 10 years.

Agreed. The silicon yuppies that now inhabit Seattle have little interest in going to basketball games.