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Cities in play for future NBA teams.

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Recently, it was rumoured that the New Orleans Hornets may end up moving to Kansas City. Today a report surfaced that Louisville, Kentucky is interested in getting an NBA team.

What will be the next new city to get an NBA team, either through re-location or expansion?:
Different choices include:
Kanas City - hasn't had a team since the Kings left for Sacramento.
St. Louis - wants a team, but NBA brass has issues with Bill Laurie, who tried to move the Grizzlies to St. Louis and made no secret of his intentions.
Louisville - working on an NBA-ready arena.
Las Vegas - The Maloofs hometown, has been rumoured as a possible spot for NBA, but of course, betting issues are a problem.
Seattle - wants their Sonics back.
Vancouver - finally the sad story about Vancouver. The fans never quite took to the Grizzlies and had them snatched out from under them.
 
Brooklyn

Brooklyn

I still read contents related to the New Jersey Nets' potential or impending transfer to Brooklyn.
 
Good potential teamnames too:

Kanas City - Yellow Bricks
St. Louis - Gangzterz
Las Vegas - Retards
Vancouver - Salmons
Kentucky - Fried Chickens
 
Dtown said:
Kansas City and Seattle have the best odds.
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Why do you think Kansas City has a good chance? I guess they're kind of starving for a pro team. I think Seattle certainly has a good chance because the Sonics franchise was doing really well until they moved to Oklahoma City.
BballFanJ said:
St. Louis - wants a team, but NBA brass has issues with Bill Laurie, who tried to move the Grizzlies to St. Louis and made no secret of his intentions.
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I don't remember that too well, but I think St. Louis is still a good sports town. They've got the Savvis Center downtown. St. Louis is known as a sports hot-spot because they've got great MLB and NFL fans. An NBA team would be a natural fit, I think.
Louisville - working on an NBA-ready arena.
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I'd be surprised if a team went to Louisville. Although it is a basketball area (the whole Indiana/Ohio/Kentucky area has a lot of great NCAA teams), I just don't think it has a big population. Maybe I'm wrong.
Las Vegas - The Maloofs hometown, has been rumoured as a possible spot for NBA, but of course, betting issues are a problem.
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I could see this happening, but I hope it doesn't.
Vancouver - finally the sad story about Vancouver. The fans never quite took to the Grizzlies and had them snatched out from under them.
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I think Canada should get a crack at another team. I'm still not sure why the Grizzlies moved, but I guess you're saying the fans gave up on them. (A winning team solves all those problems, and true expansion teams never win). I think that the Calgary/Edmonton area is much bigger than Vancouver though. Not sure how much distance is actually between Calgary and Edmonton, but that's a huge metropolitan area that could be taken advantage of.

In any case, I hope that cities like Louisville don't just spend their way into a franchise. Cities and states should not be held hostage by these sports organizations. If the infrastructure is there, invite the teams. If there is no infrastructure, don't go crazy spending money just have the team walk away after their lease ends.
 
Calgary is about a 3 & 1/2 to 4 hour drive south of Edmonton. Anyways, Calgary is the larger city so it would be the better choice.

Also, according to wikipedia, Louisville city itself is over 700,000 with a metropolitan area of nearly 1.3 million.
 
Lewis said:
I think San Jose has the best has the best shot right now

the have the no. top 5-7 (depending on where you get the data from) of the country.

they are the the 10th biggest city in the country. And the city has publicly say that they want and NBA team.

they also have the arean to to it, unlike most of the other cities
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The warriors would block it as San Jose falls under the "Bay Area" territory they have. Plus I don't think the NBA would go up to 5 teams in California.
 
Aside from Staples Center I've never understood why the Clippers never moved to Anaheim.

I forgot the Kings are constantly looking for a move, and indeed if they moved San Jose wouldn't be a bad destination.

The Hornets though I'm hoping go to Seattle. I also think if the Hornets go back to Seattle and become the Sonics, Charlotte should take the Hornets name :p
 
Lewis said:
Just look at the Non-nba cities with bigger markets than Kansas: (in order)
1-San Jose
2-Houston
3-Tampa
4-Seattle-Tacoma
5-Ft.Lauderdale
6-Daytona Beach
7-Baltimore (I'm not sure if this one counts because of the double Dub's)
8-Raleigh
9-San Diego
10-Nashville
11-Hartford

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Did I miss something? I thought for sure that when I woke up this morning that the Rockets were still in Houston. Oh Well:D
 
BBallfanJ said:
Calgary is about a 3 & 1/2 to 4 hour drive south of Edmonton. Anyways, Calgary is the larger city so it would be the better choice.
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3.5-4 hours? You must be taking the slow bus!:) I drive quite a lot between the two cities and it typically takes 2.5-3 hours. There are just over 1 million people in each city but there is no chance for an NBA franchise to be placed here. The distance is too large for anyone to travel, or care about the franchise if you don't actually live in the city and its too much of a hockey country to have an NBA team. Basketball is 4th most popular sport at best. Vancouver is a much viable option, but of course it didn't even work there.
 
vrekhson said:
3.5-4 hours? You must be taking the slow bus!:) I drive quite a lot between the two cities and it typically takes 2.5-3 hours. There are just over 1 million people in each city but there is no chance for an NBA franchise to be placed here. The distance is too large for anyone to travel, or care about the franchise if you don't actually live in the city and its too much of a hockey country to have an NBA team. Basketball is 4th most popular sport at best. Vancouver is a much viable option, but of course it didn't even work there.
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If you guys are saying it's a bad spot for a team, I believe you. But I thought that was just a massive area and that even between the two cities, it's basically just a huge city. Maybe a spot between the two cities?

I don't know if San Fransisco could have another team. I don't know how much money the Warriors are bringing in, but they seem to have plenty of fans even when they have a pretty crummy team. If another team came in, that would surely split that market. Of course, San Fransisco does seem to have a nice sports culture. The 49ers and Giants seem to do really well.

I'm starting to think that Saint Louis, Kansas City, and maybe Vancouver are the best bets. ...a team in Columbus/Cincinnati would be great for me, but even though it's a huge area, I'm not sure that would happen.
 
mvblair said:
If you guys are saying it's a bad spot for a team, I believe you. But I thought that was just a massive area and that even between the two cities, it's basically just a huge city. Maybe a spot between the two cities?
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I wish it was possible but it isn't. The area of the province of Alberta is comparable to that of Texas, but that is exactly the problem since there are only about 3 million people in the province in total. So approximately 1 million in Edmonton 1 million in Calgary and 1 million in towns of 100,000 and less. There are two NHL hockey teams and even though hockey is very popular there is no guarantee that they will stay forever. I know that Edmonton had a "professional" team a few years ago in some sort of an International league and even though there were something like 5-10 home games per season they could barely get people to come and watch. It was fun though as the average scores in that league were around 130 points per side:)
 
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