Close close but nothing happens. Silver should threaten them again and speak of move to Seattle. I hate politicians.
That will be interesting because that will get them back from what happened for when Seattle's original baseball team relocated to Milwaukee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pilots
Well it looks they decided something. Some bonds. The Milwaukee people tell me that their governor wants to run for president or smth like that and that's why he decided to be more hands on.
June first was the day they were supposed to make a decision. Now it has passed and nothing came out. Its time to start facing the very real possibillity.
Really have to wonder why the NBA is so desperate to keep teams in Sacramento and Milwaukee. Milwaukee is essentially a suburb of Chicago, its 90 miles away, with 1.5 million people in the metropolitan area, its a nothing city. Sacramento is 80 miles from Oakland, if the Kings had left all those fans would have just become Warriors fans. Yet Seattle, a city of 3.6 million in the metro area, with some of the biggest corporate brand names in America headquartered in the region, and one of the wealthiest cities in America, is overlooked as a destination for the NBA? Still makes no sense....
History. These teams are there for decades they have fans for generations. You are talking about taking away a team from their FANS like its nothing. and i dont know about sacramento but ppl from wisconsin hate everything from chicago sports with a passion. If the team is moved I will think long and hard about supporting it anymore. Even though Im not american and have no connection to milwaukee. Out of principle. You cant just take a team away. The simple notion makes me sick to my stomach. And it made many more people disgusted and outraged with the NBA when they moved the Sonics. So much bad PR disaster that Silver is reluctant to do anything similar again. But the potential move should be discussed. Because the local politicians are so delusional and absorbed in their own little pet projects like a trolley or not allowing an indian casino that they are risking the wrath of the commisioner and to lose all the millions of taxes and revenue. if the team moves the locals are already discussing of making a statue of their mayor and governor in downtown so the future generations will KNOW who sent the team away by being idiots and so self absorbed.
You say this like arguments against using public funds for the construction of private arenas are without merit. I recommend you check out Field of Schemes, a great website that chronicles public-for-private stadium boondoggles all over the country. There is no city in which this argument of sentimentality over sensibility has made sense and the public is finally catching onto the scam being played on them by professional, for-profit sports leagues. Wisconsin is in a precarious financial situation right now and arguing that public funds should be diverted to placate a basketball team that registers below the Packers, Brewers and Badgers on the sports hierarchy in the state is dubious. Waiting for Bucks Arena Plan, Day 7: Hidden Costs Could Drive Taxpayer Price Tag to $370 Million
These numbers are ballooned up. Even the article itself says so. And that doesnt include the 100 mil in debt and repairs for the Bradley Center and the 10 mil per year collected by the jock tax from nba players.http://saveourbucks.com/true-or-false-the-legislature-still-has-to-pass-the-jock-tax/
The NBA created the precedent for moving teams with a ton of history when the up and moved the Sonics. The Sonics had more history and success as well, yet they moved them with the snap of a finger.
And as I said got a huge backlash and bad pr. Thats why theybdecided they would everything neccesarry not to have this repeat.
And that's a mistake they'll never make again. They tried with Sacramento, and it was like pulling teeth. They will look at every possible avenue for keeping the team in Milwaukee before deciding to move it. However, I'm with Dumbartonbass here.....it just doesn't seem economically viable to ask public money to be diverted in this case.
They should wait to get a new one and remake the sonics. Not the seattle bucks. No need to do upon others what has been done upon them. Make two new teams in the west in 5 years and bring memphis and minny to the east and there you go. Now the crap has hit the fan. Everyone has come out of the woodwork for or against the project in the last 24 hours. Better than silence I suppose?
And how do you suggest Seattle does that? The NBA decides if they want to expand, and that seems very unlikely right now.
Milwaukee is more of a major league market than San Antonio, Orlando, or Sacramento. Those other cities would have a hard time supporting another pro team, yet Milwaukee basically supports 3. They're also home to two pretty big corporations in Northwestern Mutual and Miller Beer... its more than simply a "suburb of chicago". There's a difference between a city refusing to be held hostage for public money... and a "lack" of support. Seattle (with more $$ in its market, according to you) held the same ground and lost their team.
Wait and keep pressing and dont forget. Its out of their hands. And in the end the sonics is not the Bucks problem. That just perpetuates an injustice. Then the Bucks fans would be the ones trying to steal others teams and protesting. Do you think thats a solution??? As the above poster said chicagoans and milwaukeans are completely different identities. They are rivals in sports . The first thing they did in Jabaris public team interaction was making him wear a cheesehead in front of the cameras as rookie haze. Does that look to you accepting chicago and its teams? More like trying to convert the "enemys" child. :grin:
Well, Seattle fans and the big money behind the efforts to bring the Sonics back don't see it that way. They just want basketball back, and have a brand new arena plan in place to make it happen. Exactly what the NBA wants.
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