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Where will the Kings play next season?
M Dogg™:
What's sad is Milwaukee actually has a great basketball tradition. Much like Minneapolis did prior to losing the Lakers. Though the Lakers had to move or go bankrupt, and now Minneapolis is a HORRIBLE basketball city. Milwaukee, after years of the Bucks being mediocre at best, just isn't a good basketball city anymore. Too close to Chicago, and Wisconsin is more of a football state. So the Bucks spend half the season in the Packer's shadow and the other half with people counting down to the Brewers season. If the Bucks move, no one will miss them, hell Wisconsin is not even a good hockey state. If Milwaukee is up for grabs, it might be for the better than Sacramento. Still, Sacramento is not as good of a city for the NBA than Seattle.
Remedy360:
Yeah, none of the rumored cities deserve to lose their team but I don't really give a fuck at this point. Give me a god damn team to root for. Hansen's group is ramping up the Sac-town deal. If the owners are smart they'll accept. Far-fetched to expect any final decision this week though.
M Dogg™:
Of the NBA teams, only Orlando and New Orleans are the cities I'd say are NOT NBA cities. Sacramento's problem is that it's a really small market, though they had a horrible attendance this year, and it was due to people not going to the games. Detroit also had bad attendance this last year, but they have traditionally been a great basketball city, but maybe the still declining economy there might make it harder and harder to support any sports teams. According to the attendance figures not many teams are actually under 80% of capacity, though Cleveland is one of them. But Cleveland must have a huge arena because they have draw a good number, but it's only 78% of their arena's size. Must have thought the LeBron era was going to last a bit longer there. They need to add more seats to Staples some how. They have a high sell out percentage yet they are not in the top 5 for overall attendance. Also another reason to expand Staples, the Clippers went over capacity and oversold the Lakers. Not sure how they added extra seats, but the Clippers were at 100.9% of possible seats! So Lakers might want to talk to Staples about getting some more seats.
Remedy360:
--- Quote from: M Dogg™ on May 13, 2013, 09:13:46 PM ---Of the NBA teams, only Orlando and New Orleans are the cities I'd say are NOT NBA cities. Sacramento's problem is that it's a really small market, though they had a horrible attendance this year, and it was due to people not going to the games. Detroit also had bad attendance this last year, but they have traditionally been a great basketball city, but maybe the still declining economy there might make it harder and harder to support any sports teams. According to the attendance figures not many teams are actually under 80% of capacity, though Cleveland is one of them. But Cleveland must have a huge arena because they have draw a good number, but it's only 78% of their arena's size. Must have thought the LeBron era was going to last a bit longer there. They need to add more seats to Staples some how. They have a high sell out percentage yet they are not in the top 5 for overall attendance. Also another reason to expand Staples, the Clippers went over capacity and oversold the Lakers. Not sure how they added extra seats, but the Clippers were at 100.9% of possible seats! So Lakers might want to talk to Staples about getting some more seats.
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Yeah but in a lot of cases you can't really judge NBA by attendance. As much as I want the Kings to come here they have a great fan-base and theyve just had bad attendance because of their ownership situation along with the fact that the teams in the shitter. Every team that isn't the Lakers, Knicks, etc goes through bad spells of attendance. Obviously if a city has shit attendance ear after year they don't deserve a team but if you're going to move a team just because of a few years of bad attendance you're creating a never-ending door.
Russell Bell:
--- Quote from: Remedy360 on May 13, 2013, 09:56:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg™ on May 13, 2013, 09:13:46 PM ---Of the NBA teams, only Orlando and New Orleans are the cities I'd say are NOT NBA cities. Sacramento's problem is that it's a really small market, though they had a horrible attendance this year, and it was due to people not going to the games. Detroit also had bad attendance this last year, but they have traditionally been a great basketball city, but maybe the still declining economy there might make it harder and harder to support any sports teams. According to the attendance figures not many teams are actually under 80% of capacity, though Cleveland is one of them. But Cleveland must have a huge arena because they have draw a good number, but it's only 78% of their arena's size. Must have thought the LeBron era was going to last a bit longer there. They need to add more seats to Staples some how. They have a high sell out percentage yet they are not in the top 5 for overall attendance. Also another reason to expand Staples, the Clippers went over capacity and oversold the Lakers. Not sure how they added extra seats, but the Clippers were at 100.9% of possible seats! So Lakers might want to talk to Staples about getting some more seats.
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Yeah but in a lot of cases you can't really judge NBA by attendance. As much as I want the Kings to come here they have a great fan-base and theyve just had bad attendance because of their ownership situation along with the fact that the teams in the shitter. Every team that isn't the Lakers, Knicks, etc goes through bad spells of attendance. Obviously if a city has shit attendance ear after year they don't deserve a team but if you're going to move a team just because of a few years of bad attendance you're creating a never-ending door.
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was just about to post that. people who arent laker knicks and cetlics fans seem to forget this, lol.
Ive said it before and i'll say it again - i think seattle deserves a team, but not at the expense of sacramento. Stern cant force the maloofs to sell to the sac group, and they dont want to sell to them, theyre broke and desperate and have no qualms about fucking that town over. Which is kinda ironic, because in this area, people loved the maloofs, then they started to go broke and literally stopped giving a shit about the kings - and the on court product showed.
Another thing folks forget that is apparent when they say "oh well california has golden state, clippers and lakers already". The clippers and lakers might as well be in another state unless youre just a bandwagoner (if you live in northern california).
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