until I see the new jerseys
Rumor: NBA Expansion?
- Thread starter RickyGQ
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until I see the new jerseys
It's shyt like this that made me lost interest in them coming back, and I have access to a tunnel club suite if they ever do. It's constant pump faking and bs....I have no faith in it happening before like 2032 if EVER.
They're more likely for a team to move there.
Who knows, we might see the Seattle SuperBlazers one day if the Portland sale goes to the right person.
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focusloco
All Star
Vegas will definitely get a team because it makes too much dollars and sense... Vegas is the #1 tourist destination in the US ...they print money out here...the Raiders Knights and Aces are sold out almost every game...it's why the A's are building a 2 billion dollar stadium on the strip..... F1 races boxing UFC Superbowl Final Four College football championship all here... There is too much money involved not to 
Mexico City is safer then alot of American cities. Also Mexico is a top 15 GDP nation, and that's not counting the drug money.
Trojan 24
Veteran
Mexico City Brehitos would be flames, Mexico would fukk around and field a competitive Olympic team in about 20/25 years. ANT and Zion will help fill out a starting 5 themselves 
Montreal should get a team. Cool city. Diverse population. International feel. Close to Toronto and NYC
I’m still not seeing how an expansion league in Europe should stall expansion in the NBA.
murksiderock
Superstar
The irony...
First of all, this is at least the second time Silver has publicly said Seattle aint a lock, yet in a recent thread I made about the Thunder, mf's were all thru that bytch in their feelings about the return of the Sonics being a lock...
I agree with the brothers in here who are essentially telling nikkas to get over it----->Seattle wasn't the first city to lose it's major league team, and they won't be the last one. The only reason this board treats the Sonics as if they are some special case, is because the average age of this old ass user base, grew up in the 90s when the Sonics were good...
They not no different than any other city who had a team and eventually lost em, and here's a hard pill for nikkas to swallow: they may not ever come back. Keep hope alive I guess, but the memories of the Sonics will die with the people who were alive to witness them, the same as the memories of the countless cities who used to have teams, died with the people around to witness them. Nobody talks anout the Syracuse Nationals anymore because most the people who cared about em died decades ago...
To correlate it to my thread recently, everyone is entitled to their own point of view. The NBA officially recognizes the Sonics era as part of the history of the Oklahoma City Thunder. It is what it is. And my guess is, the further and further we get away from the Sonics existence, if they in fact never come back; while the Thunder don't commemorate the Seattle Sonics era currently, my guess is at some point they will...
The Los Angeles Lakers didnt honor the Minneapolis Lakers era until 2002---->42 years after being in LA. What tge Thunder franchise in Oklahoma, is doing by not honoring the Seattle Sonics era, is not in the slightest unique and they aren't the first example of a franchise in a new city doing this. It's only been 17 years, not even halfway to the Lakers 42 years in LA...
Should the Sonics never return to Seattle, eventually the franchise, which is in FACT the same exact franchise that played in Seattle, just under a different brand....they'll eventually honor the Seattle era. May be 10, 15, 20 years from now. But that is part of their franchise history...
So everybody treating Seattle as if they were some unique or special case, its about time to get over it. They weren't the first, and they weren't the last. Happens in every single major league...
First of all, this is at least the second time Silver has publicly said Seattle aint a lock, yet in a recent thread I made about the Thunder, mf's were all thru that bytch in their feelings about the return of the Sonics being a lock...
I agree with the brothers in here who are essentially telling nikkas to get over it----->Seattle wasn't the first city to lose it's major league team, and they won't be the last one. The only reason this board treats the Sonics as if they are some special case, is because the average age of this old ass user base, grew up in the 90s when the Sonics were good...
They not no different than any other city who had a team and eventually lost em, and here's a hard pill for nikkas to swallow: they may not ever come back. Keep hope alive I guess, but the memories of the Sonics will die with the people who were alive to witness them, the same as the memories of the countless cities who used to have teams, died with the people around to witness them. Nobody talks anout the Syracuse Nationals anymore because most the people who cared about em died decades ago...
To correlate it to my thread recently, everyone is entitled to their own point of view. The NBA officially recognizes the Sonics era as part of the history of the Oklahoma City Thunder. It is what it is. And my guess is, the further and further we get away from the Sonics existence, if they in fact never come back; while the Thunder don't commemorate the Seattle Sonics era currently, my guess is at some point they will...
The Los Angeles Lakers didnt honor the Minneapolis Lakers era until 2002---->42 years after being in LA. What tge Thunder franchise in Oklahoma, is doing by not honoring the Seattle Sonics era, is not in the slightest unique and they aren't the first example of a franchise in a new city doing this. It's only been 17 years, not even halfway to the Lakers 42 years in LA...
Should the Sonics never return to Seattle, eventually the franchise, which is in FACT the same exact franchise that played in Seattle, just under a different brand....they'll eventually honor the Seattle era. May be 10, 15, 20 years from now. But that is part of their franchise history...
So everybody treating Seattle as if they were some unique or special case, its about time to get over it. They weren't the first, and they weren't the last. Happens in every single major league...
Vegas will definitely get a team because it makes too much dollars and sense... Vegas is the #1 tourist destination in the US ...they print money out here...the Raiders Knights and Aces are sold out almost every game...it's why the A's are building a 2 billion dollar stadium on the strip..... F1 races boxing UFC Superbowl Final Four College football championship all here... There is too much money involved not to
There isn’t enough talent
Bro you care comparing a franchises that were in a city for 40 years with franchises that were there in the beginning of the nba for a decade or so.
FukkaPaidEmail
Retired Hoodrat whisperer
Seattle is a basketball city. A Vegas expansion team will be pelicans status the minute they start losing
The God Poster
LWO representa
Canada don’t deserve multiple teams
murksiderock
Superstar
The Atlanta Braves played in Boston for 81 years before relocating to Milwaukee (and then Atlanta 12 years later). That 81 years is twice as long as the Sonics were in Seattle...
I'd imagine that back in the 1970s, when there were people still alive who remembered the Braves in Boston (where they won two World Series), there were probably baseball heads who stanned the Boston iteration of the team and wouldn't acknowledge the Atlanta team as the same franchise---->even though it was (and is)...
The Indianapolis Colts played in Baltimore for 30 years. When I first started watching football, Johnny U was still alive, the Ravens were only 3 years old, and there was still talk about the Baltimore Colts, as the Colts in Indy were only 16 years old when I started watching football...
26 years later, 42 years of Colts history in Indy, you never hear anybody bytching anout the Baltimore iteration of the team, and the Indy Colts honor the Baltimore era...
The Sonics played in Seattle a long time but they aren't the only franchise to be based in a city for a long time and eventually leave. The Expos were in Montreal for 36 years. That Montreal era is part of Washington Nationals history...
The NBA has long said that if the Sonics return, all the Sonics history will revert to the new version of the franchise. But until and unless yhat happens....the Seattle Sonics era is considered the history of the Oklahoma Thunder...
I was only referring to the teams you mentioned not all teams that have moved.
As for any team that has moved, I think people get over it when cities get another team.
I think that's why everyone wanted a team in Baltimore, or everyone wanted a team in LA etc.
