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Why is San Antonio thought of as small market

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Conventional NBA wisdom you hear people call San Antonio small market. "If the NBA is rigged why would they have San Antonio win", etc. Its like the 7th most populated city in the country. I was shocked to learn this today. (I guessed 9/10 most populated US cities)
 
Lance-A-Million said:
Conventional NBA wisdom you hear people call San Antonio small market. "If the NBA is rigged why would they have San Antonio win", etc. Its like the 7th most populated city in the country. I was shocked to learn this today. (I guessed 9/10 most populated US cities)
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What's their rank when it comes to size of the metro area?
 
Last year during the playoffs, I told a guy who was picking on some 18 year-old kid at my house, the Spurs were a small-market team. He argued they weren't and asked me if I wanted to fight him. It didn't end well for him.
 
To answer your question though, I'm pretty sure it has to do with the media market and how much the team generates state and nationwide.
 
There is like 1.4 million people here, that makes up most city metros. San Marcos is like right outside of San Antonio, also. So I'd be sure that they are in San Antonio's metro, and thats a fairly large city.
 
https://www.tvjobs.com/cgi-bin/markets/market2.cgi

San Antonio is the 37th largest media market in the country - smaller than salt lake city, milwaukee, and greenville SC but larger than Birmingham, AL and West Palm Beach, FL.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas

similarly the metro size of San Antonio is ranked 25th. Its less than half the size of Boston, Miami, Houston and 1/9th the size of New York. San Antonio is even smaller than sacremento and portland
 
TheItinerantSon said:
https://www.tvjobs.com/cgi-bin/markets/market2.cgi

San Antonio is the 37th largest media market in the country - smaller than salt lake city, milwaukee, and greenville SC but larger than Birmingham, AL and West Palm Beach, FL.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas

similarly the metro size of San Antonio is ranked 25th. Its less than half the size of Boston, Miami, Houston and 1/9th the size of New York. San Antonio is even smaller than sacremento and portland
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Well that settles it. San Antonio is really a small market, if not a small city, and Archie kisses and tells.
 
By "market" they are talking about the number of TV's.
The more tv's, the more the team makes in their tv deals... the more the team makes... and basically the more wiggle room the team has to go over the cap to pay good players.

It's all about tv's.
 
Austin is a Spurs town, and it's ****ing huge. And that's saying nothing about adding San Antonio, which is also huge.
 
Maybe because they're downsized when people in the state talk about Dallas or Houston. San Antonio has nothing on those cities.
 
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