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We already travel (miles) farther then any other team in the league. This will only makes it worse.
 
Agreed. It would be ridiculous to have 3 franchises in the LA area and it would isolate Portland from its nearest NBA neighbor even more.
 
3 teams within 60 miles is nuts. Move them to Seattle damn it!
 
Yay, the NBA is holding another city hostage to try and extract as much public tax dollars for owner$ and player$!

I love how the NBA shows a bunch of charity advertisments making it appear that they spend money on public wellbeing when they take back more than 10x that amount from local schools, police, and public services!

The NBA, where caring for our money happens!
 
Arco arena was built in 1988 and considered one of the oldest and most unprofitable areans in the league. When was the Rose Garden built, '95? So we have about 7 years untill the NBA will threaten to leave our city if tax payers don't pony up a couple hundred million for a new arena.

The NBA argues a bullshit point that they bring jobs and revenue to a city so its fair to be publicly subsidized... Well Intel brings jobs to Portland but the city doesn't pay to build them microchip plants. Nike brings jobs to Portland but the city doesn't have to pay to build Niketown stores. Other for profit enterprises have to invest owners capital to get owner profits, but the NBA gets to keep all the revenue and profits created by our tax dollars. THANKS NBA! Instead of having my tax dollars go to a school or health care I get to give them to the poor PLAYERS and OWNERS!!!
 
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Draco said:
Arco arena was built in 1988 and considered one of the oldest and most unprofitable areans in the league. When was the Rose Garden built, '95? So we have about 7 years untill the NBA will threaten to leave our city if tax payers don't pony up a couple hundred million for a new arena.
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I don't think that is as cut and dry. I don't know how accurate this is, but hasn't he RG been renovated a few times in the past decade? A ton of announcers have claimed that the RG is pretty up to date.
 
Draco said:
Arco arena was built in 1988 and considered one of the oldest and most unprofitable areans in the league. When was the Rose Garden built, '95? So we have about 7 years untill the NBA will threaten to leave our city if tax payers don't pony up a couple hundred million for a new arena.

The NBA argues a bullshit point that they bring jobs and revenue to a city so its fair to be publicly subsidized... Well Intel brings jobs to Portland but the city doesn't pay to build them microchip plants. Nike brings jobs to Portland but the city doesn't have to pay to build Niketown stores. Other for profit enterprises have to invest owners capital to get owner profits, but the NBA gets to keep all the revenue and profits created by our tax dollars. THANKS NBA! Instead of having my tax dollars go to a school or health care I get to give them to the poor PLAYERS and OWNERS!!!
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You would not have posted this if you have been to both arenas. The RG is one of the nicest and best maintained in the league.
 
Anaheim is such a dank city.

Seattle or Vancouver are far more deserving.
 
Arco was built before arenas had shifted to building luxury seating areas and suites circling an arena. That's what also killed the Key - too few sky boxes. The Rose Garden, however, was built with all of these so aside from updating of the seats, I'm not sure what a new arena could offer that isn't already present. As was mentioned above, millions have been spent on upgrades the past few years.

As for the Kings moving - that would be a shame. That city definitely supports the team (when it's competitive and usually when it isn't) and it's nice to have other small market cities. If they do move, I'd want it to be out of the region so that we can move back into the Pacific.
 
I thought the Maloofs have always dreamed of moving their franchise to Vegas. I can't see them being happy with playing third-fiddle in So-Cal.
 
Yay. More local blazers games for me. Clipper tix are pricy with blake now

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For some reason every team is trying to move as far away from P-Town as they can!
 
Draco said:
The NBA argues a bullshit point that they bring jobs and revenue to a city so its fair to be publicly subsidized... Well Intel brings jobs to Portland but the city doesn't pay to build them microchip plants. Nike brings jobs to Portland but the city doesn't have to pay to build Niketown stores.
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Actually both megacompanies were paid to locate there with 2 of the largest business tax subsidy packages in the history of the state. The systems development costs owed by them, and decades of property taxes were "waived" and the money for them was "appropriated" from other tax-funded programs. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars of tax dollars raised under false pretenses to bribe these bozos to locate where they probably would have anyway.

This is why Washington County has the worst roads in the state, a runaway gang problem, crappy schools, and more roadside litter than anywhere north of the California border.
 
MARIS61 said:
Actually both megacompanies were paid to locate there with 2 of the largest business tax subsidy packages in the history of the state. The systems development costs owed by them, and decades of property taxes were "waived" and the money for them was "appropriated" from other tax-funded programs. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars of tax dollars raised under false pretenses to bribe these bozos to locate where they probably would have anyway.

This is why Washington County has the worst roads in the state, a runaway gang problem, crappy schools, and more roadside litter than anywhere north of the California border.
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At least somewhat true. Intel has been given huge tax breaks to locate and expand their operations here (not that it's been a bad thing). Nike has purposely stayed beyond incorporated Beaverton city limits to avoid paying a higher tax.
 
I thought Arco was rebuilt?

Or was that Hemisphere that was rebuilt?
 
julius said:
I thought Arco was rebuilt?

Or was that Hemisphere that was rebuilt?
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The original Arco was only in use for only about 5 years -it was sort of a tester arena when the team was new. The place they play in now has been around since about 1990. It was the funnest place to watch a game I have ever been to, including the RG.

Sad to see them go if they go.
 
The farther they move away from Portland, the bigger our market becomes. The Blazers need to take Boise away from the Jazz, then they can control Vancouver, Seattle, Boise, Portland, and Northern CA. Then once we take over Alaska we will be able to see Russia from our front porches.......
 
Lol they'll fail epically in Anaheim. The Kings? Really? Didn't they try having a rivalry with us or something?
 
:yawn:

You guys seriously need to get some new material.
 
You gotta move on from the past, eventually.
 
This sucks on so many levels. Kings fans were loyal for years. The whole area around the arena, formerly sheep meadows, was built up when the team got good; those local businesses will suffer. The Blazers will have even more travel. And isolated in their corner of the country, the league may decide to just contract them so other teams won't have to travel out to the area where there is only one team. I personally will lose another 1-2 games a year that I can go to. Going to games at the Warriors arena is awful, they do everything possible to keep fans from having fun. Kings staff is great. The arena is not state of the art but it's clean. Staff are friendly and helpful. I get surveys from all the arenas I go to and every year I rate Sacramento the best. The food sucks but at least there is a variety of bad food. It's the only arena where fans can still take pictures and get player autographs. Another small market team loses out so LA can get a 3rd string basketball team.

Pause while crandc says a lot of unprintable words that don't belong on a family site like S2.
 
Mamba said:
You gotta move on from the past, eventually.
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Agreed. You should acknowledge the historic wrong done to the Kings and give them the Larry O'Brien trophy that year. Only then can you move on with a clear conscience.

Oh, and drop K*be off at the gates of the the Cañon City State Prison in Colorado to begin serving his sentence for rape.
 
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She dropped charges and prosecutors didn't pursue. Nothing wrong with some rough sex.
 
We should just move all the teams to either LA, Miami, NY, Boston or Chicago. At least that way the league could quit with their bullshit spin on everything and just get it over with.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
The farther they move away from Portland, the bigger our market becomes. The Blazers need to take Boise away from the Jazz, then they can control Vancouver, Seattle, Boise, Portland, and Northern CA. Then once we take over Alaska we will be able to see Russia from our front porches.......
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That makes the New Jersey Nyets trade rumors easy to understand.
 
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