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Wait until the franchise is entrenched and old-news. Durant retires, the team goes through a transitional lull, the fans will stop coming out as often, and the NBA will ship them away as quickly as they can. It's all about maximizing profit. It's not a foregone conclusion, maybe local circumstances will allow them to be profitable, but if not, they are gone (and being such a small market stacks the deck against them).Comment
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BTW, I think what will be interesting going forward is the WNBA. Im not sure if its profitable or not but its hard to imagine that it is. If the WNBA is not profitable, anything Stern says rings hollow while he instsists on carrying that league. It would also be interesting to see if the media actually starts questioning the existence of the WNBA. There are a lot of agendas in the media and a lot of people that wont want to go near asking the pointed questions about the WNBA.
Originally posted by Con-ConHonestly, some of the posters on here are acting like Rob Jones boned your girl while you were at work, on you own sheets BTW.Originally posted by trobinson97Mo is the Operator from the Matrix.Comment
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Actually, with the New York, Boston, LA and Philadelphia frequently in the playoffs, MLB is going up against bad monday night games and losing. With all the big market teams routinely in the playoffs, MLB has become a weeknight sport and gets crushed when it goes up against football.
Baseball is kind of a dying sport and a major reason is that no one cares about it outside of the Boston, NY, St Louis, Chicago, or if it involves your team.
Granted, MLB has the misfortune of going up against the NFL in a way that the NBA doesnt (ie the NBAs postseason doesnt conflict with the NFL, unless the draft is on). But still, MLB is not the model the NBA should be following.
A couple of years ago when the Lakers played the Celtics, they still only did like a 9, which is still only half of what the NBA was getting during the Jordan era. The NBA wants the fans that stopped watching during the Jordan era. The NBA has been trying to get back to that. The NBA may never get back to the popularity it was at during the Jordan era but if the Lakers-Celtics is only doing half of that, theres a lot of room for improvement and it also kind of suggests that the Celtics-Lakers alone may not be enough.Comment
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From what I hear due to the pending sale from Shinn to Chouset the Hornets wouldn't be seriously considered for contraction.
Oh and lol @ the idea of moving the Thunder, the NBA realized OKC was a profitable area when people showed up to Hornets games when it wasn't even their own teamSaints, LSU, Seminoles, Pelicans, Marlins, LightningComment
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Nobody is being seriously considered for contraction right now. It's just talk to try and get something going.#RespectTheCultureComment
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The league is bluffing they don't have the balls to get rid of 4-6 teams. This has to be posturing to get the salaries reduced to something the PA can tolerate or whatever else they want. If the NBA did cut up to 6 teams then I guess someone would attempt to create a new league.As Shaquille O'Neal left the Suns practice court, he yelled out, "Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!"Comment
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MLB attendance and media contracts are better than ever and growing, fantastic signs that it's "dying."Member of The OS Baseball Rocket Scientists AssociationComment
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contraction isn't happening, it's posturing.
if by some reason it did happen, it would be 2 teams max.
I would like to see the draft order reversed personally. Best teams choose first. No more rewards for being a crappy franchise. Maybe if they went to 24 teams this wouldn't be an issue thoughComment
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From what I hear due to the pending sale from Shinn to Chouset the Hornets wouldn't be seriously considered for contraction.
Oh and lol @ the idea of moving the Thunder, the NBA realized OKC was a profitable area when people showed up to Hornets games when it wasn't even their own team
Last edited by hokupguy; 10-24-2010, 10:04 PM."Never say never, because limits are like fears and they are often just an illusion."-M.J.Comment
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If the league is really losing money and asking the players to take a major paycut than Stern should lead by example and slash his own salary.
Instead of blaming the players for making too much money, Stern needs to ask his bosses why they continue to give out silly contracts. Guys like Gooden, Fyre, Outlaw, Johnson, etc.. signed for millions of dollars this off-season.
Stern is also a idiot for talking about this issue so much when the season is about to start.Comment
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In a lot of places that have major league teams, they have ridiculously cheap tickets and the ball parks are still empty on a regular basis. As far as the Cubs go, there are a lot of people who only keep purchasing season tickets because they dont want to miss out if the Cubs ever win a WS. Other than that, a lot of Cubs fans wouldnt even be as committed to going to games.
Also, while advertisers/networks may like the Yankees and Red Sox all the time, its because theres less risk. The sport is too far along. The networks arent interested in the sport cultivating interest in less attractive markets on their dime. And because they overpay, MLB surrenders power to TV and advertisers.Last edited by RonnieG; 10-25-2010, 12:09 AM.Comment
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Actually, with the New York, Boston, LA and Philadelphia frequently in the playoffs, MLB is going up against bad monday night games and losing. With all the big market teams routinely in the playoffs, MLB has become a weeknight sport and gets crushed when it goes up against football."You make your name in the regular season, and your fame in the postseason." - Clyde Frazier
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Kind of irks me that most people have said the Hornets, but whatever. I'm used to people ishing on us. Doesn't matter, this seems like a negotiating ploy more than anything.
And Stern would get absolutely slammed for taking a professional basketball team off the gulf coast.
i sure a read some where that deal was dead , who ever the buyer was backed out at the last min.
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...ve-chris-paul/
And seriously, I have a tough time buying anything that the New York media says about the Hornets, because they want CP3 to be a Knick.Comment
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I don't see the Pacers going away, because of the fact that Indy is still a top twenty market, and the Field House is still relatively new. The only problem with the league is the league is biased towards stars, and does not give the best teams a chance, but gives the stars the rotten run of it, which is what someone else said earlier in the thread.
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