http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/8-nba-teams-that-spend-the-least-cash-on-winning.html/3/ 6. Houston Rockets The Rockets spend $1.23 million per win, much lower than the average cost per win of many NBA teams. They’re second in the Southwest Division, behind — guess who — the Spurs.
As a smaller market team, you have to manage your cap well to get to the top. IMO there is no one better at this than Spurs, Rockets, and Thunder.
SMALLER, never said small. We are smaller than teams like: - LA Lakers - NY Knicks - Miami Heat - Boston Celtics Players may choose to live Houston or Texas in the offseason, but it is certainly not because of the teams usually. We do not have the glitz or the legacy of big market teams.
Chicago is a bigger market than Miami.....plus just youre saying that theyre smaller because theyre smaller than the four biggest? There are 30 teams in the league.......Thats like saying that Clyde Drexler is one of the lesser players in NBA history because he wasnt as good as Jordan, Wilt, Bird, or Magic (or whoever you have in those spots). its a little ridiculous
I am giving examples. Hopefully that is not too much a concept for some to understand. :roll eyes: Houston is considered a smaller market team no matter how one cuts it. There is a reason no one ever talks about us in the media typically while they drone on and on about other teams. Houston is not a small city, but we are certainly not a big market team as far as the NBA is concerned.
Didnt say they were a BIG market....but I would say they're in the top half of the league. Medium market is a more apt term. Borderline top 10
I don't see it in that many shades of grey. To me, it is either big market, or not big market. Are there different degrees of smaller market teams? Yes. Houston as a NBA market simply lacks the lure of legacy or marketing or celebrity power that other big market teams provide. This is one of the big reasons we were never able to draw in a star despite having the money and cap.
If you figure NBA market size to be the same as TV market size, we're #10. Here's the current 2014 TV Markets 1 New York 2 Los Angeles 3 Chicago 4 Philadelphia 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth 6 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 7 Boston 8 Atlanta 9 Washington, DC 10 Houston 11 Detroit 12 Phoenix 13 Tampa-St. Petersburg 14 Seattle-Tacoma 15 Minneapolis-St. Paul 16 Miami-Ft.Lauderdale 17 Cleveland-Akron 18 Denver 19 Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne 20 Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto
Since when is Miami a larger market than Houston? Miami - 44th in population, 16th in television market, 7th in franchise value Houston - 4th in population, 10th in television market, 6th in franchise value Just because a few guys decided they wanted to play in Miami a few years ago it doesn't automatically make it a bigger market. Given the right circumstances I could see how it would be a more attractive option to sign as a free agent, but that's not what big/small market means.
funny that they're talking about payroll and they show a picture of the Rockets that has NONE of the current players on the team. (We're not paying any of these people still are we?..Matt Maloneys not in this photo) :grin:
You seem to associate market size with how glitzy the city is, or how desirable it is to free agents. I associate market size with how many people live in that market, and how much income the team can generate.
This is true. To me, how big of a market a city is for the NBA has nothing to do with how many people live there, but rather how appealing it is towards NBA players and the media from a playing standpoint.
