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  • CHBB
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    Originally posted by CKR13 View Post
    Talks of future expansion opening up again.
    Expansion is on the horizon for the National Basketball Association, and it could be outside of the United States.


    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.

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  • CKR13
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    Talks of future expansion opening up again.
    Expansion is on the horizon for the National Basketball Association, and it could be outside of the United States.


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

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

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

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  • Phantom Dreamer
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    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.

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  • CKR13
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    Originally posted by CHBB View Post
    Wrong franchise to be sniffing around in my opinion.
    Agreed. Preserving the franchises on areas steep with basketball tradition is a must.

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  • CHBB
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    Wrong franchise to be sniffing around in my opinion.

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  • CKR13
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    Hansen and co. planning to bid on the Hawks franchise.

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  • CKR13
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    Seattle investor group remains focused on NBA

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  • CKR13
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    NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: No plans for Seattle expansion team yet

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  • CKR13
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    Originally posted by Milos.Djuric View Post
    Yeah I heard about that, but I also read on a couple of places that there is no way they will be relocating Bucks, even with the new arena thing. If I didn't see this statements I would say Bucks are in the danger, but now not sure...
    True and agree. The Bucks has heritage as a basketball franchise wherein legends like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson gave the franchise its championship back in 1971. It seems that the Bucks financial situation is stable unlike the Kings under the Maloof family. Just recently, Herb Kohl is pursuing investors for a new arena business plan.

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  • Milos.Djuric
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    Originally posted by CKR13 View Post
    As of this moment, it is the Milwaukee Bucks who are feeling the pressure of a new arena; eerily similar to the situation of the Kings some years back.
    Yeah I heard about that, but I also read on a couple of places that there is no way they will be relocating Bucks, even with the new arena thing. If I didn't see this statements I would say Bucks are in the danger, but now not sure...

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  • CKR13
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    I am intrigued on how Seattle will get a franchise back. Base on Adam Silver's initiative of looking at dissolving divisions, it could pave way for expansions in Seattle and New Jersey. As of this moment, it is the Milwaukee Bucks who are feeling the pressure of a new arena; eerily similar to the situation of the Kings some years back.

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  • Milos.Djuric
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    Like I said in the thread about Stern retiring this is something I really hope to see, a franchise back in Seattle. I hope to see it as a league expansion move and not buying off a franchise. And even if they were to get another existing franchise which would they get? I really can't picture any of the existing franchises relocating, from my POV they all look stable, the only one who had some turbulence was Sacramento last year and that didn't happen so I don't really have a clue...

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  • CKR13
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    Under new NBA commish Adam Silver, Seattle back in the radar? Factors like Seattle's Seahawks winning a superbowl is fueling another grassroots campaign.

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