Will we ever see a team from Seattle again

[CKR132]

Hansen and co. planning to bid on the Hawks franchise.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/sonics/20...-bids-to-bring-nbas-atlanta-hawks-to-seattle/

 

[CHBB2]

Wrong franchise to be sniffing around in my opinion.

 

[CKR132]

Wrong franchise to be sniffing around in my opinion.

Agreed. Preserving the franchises on areas steep with basketball tradition is a must.

 

[Phantom Dreamer2]

Well, recently the Seattle Council voted 5-4 against vacating a portion of Occidental Ave for which the new arena would be built, south of Safeco Field. Another roadblock in the effort to bring back the SuperSonics.

 

[Phantom Dreamer2]

The Seattle SuperSonics had great uniforms. The game needs this more than ever.

 

[Hepcat2]

I'd like to see teams back in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Buffalo, Kansas City, Rochester, Syracuse and Fort Wayne myself.

 

[CKR132]

Talks of future expansion opening up again.
http://heavy.com/sports/2017/01/nba-expansion-seriously-being-discussed/

An NBA team in Mexico being on topic once more. Then there's Seattle and Louisville.

 

[CHBB2]

Talks of future expansion opening up again.
http://heavy.com/sports/2017/01/nba-expansion-seriously-being-discussed/

An NBA team in Mexico being on topic once more. Then there's Seattle and Louisville.

I really don't get how they mention Louisville yet never Baltimore. I don't know if they think they can replicate what Memphis has done but I doubt it. Louisville owns the basketball scene, and the Grizzlies came to Memphis at a time when Memphis basketball was pretty much irrelevant. Not to mention Vancouver. They'll talk Mexico City but not Vancouver?

A city I think could be interesting as a potential sleeper basketball city is Tampa IF the Rays move. USF is a fairly big school and program but never really makes it to that next level so you've got a local pipeline for developing talent yet a team that can easily be overtaken in terms of being the focus of basketball in that city. I think it would take some work like what Memphis has had to do or Sacramento but I think it's possible, especially with Miami not far away. Just move the Magic -and rename them- or give them an expansion team if the expansion is big enough.

St Louis is another interesting one. SLU is just flat out not big enough to own that city's basketball scene, and we've seen that they're producing very nice talent right now in that area so obviously there's a basketball culture there.