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NUMBERICA said:
Because KC is an actual city and the midwest is barren of NBA basketball?
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Sure, plus there are enough teams in Cali even if Sacramento loses their team to Seattle. Plus I am less inclined to put a team into a city that just lost a team. As such I'd rather see Sactown go to Vegas, St. Louis or Kansas City.
 
I would love to see the Seattle Supersonics come back, but I got a feelin' Sacramento will put together an offer to keep the team in Sacto. Hopefully, the new ownership group won't be completely cheap. The Maloof's do NOT deserve a team.
 
For whatever this is worth, I have said that the only way I could be okay-ish with the Jazz getting moved is if they went to Seattle.

Anyway, extremely intrigued to see if this will go down or not.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Or contract teams. Which I think is a slippery slope for the Jazz but ultimately a good move.
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Personally I think the Jazz are safe from contraction. Utah has a strong enough fan base and a strong enough winning history to stay in SLC.

Teams I'd place up for contraction are Sactown, Charlotte, Toronto and Cleveland.
 
A bunch of unrelated quick thoughts:

Hey, where did this contraction talk come from?

How do you convince rich ego guys to give up on their 350 Million dollar investment? NBA can't afford to buy out multiple owners. However, I could see a scenario where 8-12 smaller market teams are 'invited' to form up with 4 -6 new franchises to play in an ABA type league. A step up from the D-league, a step down from NBA, with agreements on how ABA teams get profit sharing from the NBA, how the NBA can snipe the best players, and some friendly matches between the two leagues.

Isn't the NBA paying somebody in St. Louis a Million dollars a year for as long as there is no team in the St. Louis area, or something like that? Part of the NBA?ABA merger deal.
 
mellow said:
A bunch of unrelated quick thoughts:

Hey, where did this contraction talk come from?

How do you convince rich ego guys to give up on their 350 Million dollar investment? NBA can't afford to buy out multiple owners. However, I could see a scenario where 8-12 smaller market teams are 'invited' to form up with 4 -6 new franchises to play in an ABA type league. A step up from the D-league, a step down from NBA, with agreements on how ABA teams get profit sharing from the NBA, how the NBA can snipe the best players, and some friendly matches between the two leagues.

Isn't the NBA paying somebody in St. Louis a Million dollars a year for as long as there is no team in the St. Louis area, or something like that? Part of the NBA?ABA merger deal.
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Here's a link about that:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/...rn-millions-from-nba.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The old St. Louis Spirits owners get more than $1 million per year - they get 1/7 of the TV revenue generated by the Nets, Nuggets, Spurs and Pacers.
 
From the Kings board:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbBJQbt3hiA

Seems like we share some history with them. Is that Phil Johnson I see?
That video is hilarious. 40-4 after one qt. The Laker fans give the Kings a standing O when they finally score.
 
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