which city/area would be good for a NBA team expansion ?

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  • Norfolk-Virginia Beach, VA

    Votes: 8 5.2%
  • Pittsburgh, PA

    Votes: 7 4.6%
  • Kansas City, Mo

    Votes: 14 9.2%
  • Nashville, TN

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • Vancouver, British Columbia

    Votes: 11 7.2%
  • Las Vegas, NV

    Votes: 31 20.3%
  • Seattle, WA

    Votes: 62 40.5%
  • Cincinnati,OH

    Votes: 9 5.9%
  • Baltimore, MD

    Votes: 9 5.9%

  • Total voters
    153
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They'll support but when those wins aren't happening, empty arena. Same reason I don't believe Vegas is such a good location. It's not even a transient city. Would they even have a dedicated, loyal fan base? Most of their crowd would be Attendees who got tix thru the hotel they were staying in for a few days.
 

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They'll support but when those wins aren't happening, empty arena. Same reason I don't believe Vegas is such a good location. It's not even a transient city. Would they even have a dedicated, loyal fan base? Most of their fans would be out of towners who got tix thru the hotel they were staying in for a few days.
Bay Area supports basketball, Warriors during the bad times had excellent attendance
 

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KC :scust:

Seattle is Obvious pick. :ehh:
I can tell you that as someone that lives just outside of KC its a good place to have a team the fans will support the team and it will be successful financially.
 
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Out of that list, the only cities with an immediate shot are Vegas and Seattle.

The NBA isn't going to expand into a market that already has 2 or 3 established pro teams unless it's a major market. It's too much of an uphill battle when it comes to competing for local corporate support and sponsorship, as well as season ticket sales. The last time the NBA put an expansion team in a city that already had more than one pro franchise was the Timberwolves, and the Twin Cities metro area is a pretty big market. Before that, you'd have to go all the way back to the 60's when they added the Bulls. That takes Pittsburgh, KC, Nashville, Baltimore and Cincinnati out of the running.

Vancouver is definitely a no, as the NBA already failed there.

VA Beach is a possibility, but they would need to break ground on an arena first, and the city has been slow to give approval for the project. It could be 2020 until the arena is done, and there's no suitable venue for an NBA team to play at in the meantime.

That leaves Seattle, which is the most obvious choice in the list, and Vegas.
 

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They'll support but when those wins aren't happening, empty arena. Same reason I don't believe Vegas is such a good location. It's not even a transient city. Would they even have a dedicated, loyal fan base? Most of their crowd would be Attendees who got tix thru the hotel they were staying in for a few days.
Vegas is also Laker turf
 

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Seattle, WA and Cincinnati, OH and Nashville, TN could be good for a NBA expansion.

Las Vegas wouldn't work because it's a transplant city, with the majority of them being SoCal transplants which is why Las Vegas is part of the Lakers tv territory.
 

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ABQ would be a poppin place to have a NBA team. They already have the pit there.
 
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ABQ would be a poppin place to have a NBA team. They already have the pit there.

NBA won't put a team in The Pit. Too old of an arena. If your city doesn't put money into a state of the art arena, or do a major renovation of the one you already have, they're getting their franchise up outta there. That's the sole reason Seattle and Charlotte relocated, and the sole reason Sacramento and Milwaukee almost had to relocate.
 

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Why do we always focus on cities inside the US first when we do this expansion shyt? Why not Mexico City or Montreal as first options? Like has already been said, the point should be to expand the game across the world not just down the highway. I voted Vegas since that has always been sort of a taboo city for pro sports but fukk it, get a team in a new country
 

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No talk of Louisville KY?

If it wasn't for the stranglehold The University of Louisville got on the Yum Center, the Grizzlies would be there instead of Memphis.

Kansas City may have the Sprint Center but they couldn't support the Kings when they were in town and they're more of a college basketball/ NFL city anyway. That's why they built the arena for bball tourneys and to try to lure a NHL team .

Vegas is the sexy choice but let's see how they handle hockey first with the new arena they're building.

St Louis??? :ld:

But I see Seattle and Louisville getting a team next in a perfect world.
 
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