beenz
Rap Guerilla
I know breh. But the Decatur Celebration is this weekend and Salt N Pepa will be here
damn salt n pepa done fell off
Sources: NBA Possibly Exploring Expansion to Seattle and Louisville
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damn salt n pepa done fell off
Ruben Studdard and Joan Jett will be here as well. Also, Lep Zeplicca, a Led Zepellin tribute band.damn salt n pepa done fell off
My weekend will be full.
Them shrimps on a stick tho
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Hockey is a much more random sport
Seattle has great sports fans. Even the Sounders get great attendance and support. Sonics need to come back, if nothing else, because their fans deserve it, theres a lot of money for the league to make there and Gary Payton/Shawn Kemp need to have their jerseys retired.
Hfboards is notorious for shytting on southern Hockey teams. So much so that even mentioning relocation for the Coyotes or Panthers get you banned. They want relocation not expansion. If anything they want expansion to even up the conferences. The west only has 14 teams but the East has 16.
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
The NHL clearly wants expansion. The commissioner is already talking about Seattle. Hfboards guys are always talking about increasing the sport's profile; some of them even want to try Atlanta and Houston. They want to be bigger than the NBA and the biggest sport in the USA. As things stand, the NHL has already made inroads in the South. There are several successful franchises that have increased the sport's profile, fans' choices, players' opportunities and the league's overall profit. The NFL should copy that model. More teams is a net benefit for football fans.
They could move COSI again and build a arena right there on the water
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
Just how many less superstars/stars does the current NBA have vs. any other point in time?
You wanna create a past for the NBA where every team had a star and a superstar?
UpAndComing
Veteran
They should try to get a new team in Seattle & somewhere else for the Western conference so they can move Memphis & New Orleans to the Eastern conference before trying to put a pro team in Kentucky
Memphis already plays like an East Coast team anyway
Since 1980, 9 teams have won the NBA Finals. That's it. For comparison, 9 MLB teams have won the World Series since 2000, even though people complain about no salary cap. Expansion wouldn't hurt the talent or parity at all.
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tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
It would increase the amount of people that complain that they can't win, and you can't compare a Finals appearance to a championship. When you have more areas that have no shot to win, you're decreasing incentive to go out and watch. People watch basketball still primarily to see their team hopefully win
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
The pool isn't deep enough at the top to sustain that sort of expansion. In the NFL, MLB, NHL when you at the best players you'll see there isn't a huge difference at the top even though there's immortals among them. There's a massive gulf between the superstars and the all-stars. Other leagues have more players at the top without a massive decrease in talent. In the NBA we're way too desperate to put the Paul George's, Kevin Love's, and the James Hardens on a level we know they're not on
People would still watch, because it's pro basketball. Like I said, 9 teams have won since 1980. Most of the league shouldnt be having fans come out, and yet they still do
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
That's because you have to be a special kind of awful to not see a playoff berth for a very long time.
That and basketball fans generally dikkride if the home team doesn't have a ton of prestige
