Bucks Threaten to Relocate if Arena Deal Doesn't Go Through

yes.

This news is all over the local media and has made the locals wake up and start calling their reps and demanding to stay. It will get passed. Before it was only the loyal fanbase who called now I see more and more casuals.

 

The Green Bay packers are more well known internationally

 

Maybe if the Bucks move to Seattle, then the Astros can move back to the National league. Or something like that.

 

Absolutely not. Noone watches american football. or cares. Maybe only in the last 5 years some people in two three countries in central europe and uk. That's it.

 

I feel the same way about the Nets. One team per city, please. And there are loads of cities that could support an NBA team. For example,

San Diego(8), San Jose (10), Austin (11) and Jacksonville (12) are all more populated than Indianapolis (which is the 14th most populated city in the US).

Columbus (15), El Paso (19), Seattle (20) and Nashville (25) are all more populated than Oklahoma City (27th most populated city in the US).

Milwaukee, by the way, is the 31st most populated US city. So it's kind of amazing they have a professional basketball team anyway. But NY and LA should definitely quit being jerks and share the NBA franchises.

 

Get out of your bubble dude.

 

Yeah but Seattle is an extremely difficult political environment to work in, and they were able to get approval to build a stadium right in the heart of downtown Seattle with half private-public money. That deal ends in 2017 and then the NBA would lose its "leverage" to lure a team to Seattle.

 

Metropolitan areas are a better measure of potential a city could do. Oklahoma is actually further down when considering cities by metropolitan population.

Metro Seattle is 3.6 million people, about 3 times the size of metro New Orleans, Memphis, Salt Lake City, Oklahama City, & Milwaukee.

The State of Washington in total has 7 million people, and the other Seattle franchises sell heavily across the Pacific Northwest region. Seattle is a lot like Boston in that the greater New England area gravitates towards the Boston teams, same goes for the greater Pacific Northwest gravitates towards the Seattle based team (obviously for the NBA this isn't the case for Oregon).

The Mariners have a massive TV deal showcasing games in Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho and Montana, they're making $110 million a year from their TV deal which is greater than nearly everyone in the MLB but the Dodgers, Yankees, and a few other clubs, while the Seahawks have roughly the same broad audience and support across the Northwest. Basically, Seattle's potential market size is pretty massive considering how the region gravitates towards Seattle based teams.

Point is, which an exploding amount of revenue for the NBA coming from TV, having a team in Seattle ASAP is a no brainer. The money a Seattle franchise can make far exceeds Milwaukee and any other NBA-less city at the moment. The Mariners deal proves how lucrative that market is, which is why the potential ownership group is willing to spend $1 billion to $1.5 billion to secure an arena + team back in the city.

 

The Borough of Brooklyn is bigger than all of those cities.

 

Which is why teams are trying to get money for new arenas now- because aftee that deal expires they lose their leverage.

 

Just move the team to Seattle. The sooner the better. Would cure one bleeding wound after the Sonics were sneaked out of town.

 

What a genious. Cure one wound create another. Why dont we also move the rockets to vancouver? Texas has too many teams and canada only one.

 

No the Thunder should move back to Seattle.

 

Its amazing that the scumbag George Shinn's accusation of sexual assault 16 years ago ignited a series of NBA relocations that will continue lasting for years and years.

Shinn sexually assaults a woman in Charlotte, never wants to step foot back in Charlotte again

Shinn decides to move Hornets to New Orleans

Katrina hits New Orleans Hornets

Hornets play in Oklahoma for two seasons whilst arena is tended for in NO

NBA then wants team in Oklahoma, uses a team of thieves to steal a team with 40+ years history in Seattle

Seattle left without a team

And now, team may move back to Seattle from Milwaukee

3 NBA relocations, and billions of dollars moving around the country all because of Shinn couldn't keep his hands to himself

 

Milwaukee wi not move to seattle. Even the senators saying they will vote no want the team to stay. The owner lasry has clinton in fast call. He almost called him even to get monroe to sign lol this may get ugly but it will get done. The team has history of 47 years in the city and it will stay there. Seattle can get an expansion not steal another team.

 

Just needs a slight alteration to the team name.

The Seattle Starbucks.

 

Endless advertising possibilities.

 

John Oliver goes hard against publicly-financed stadiums:

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Publicly-financed stadiums are never a good deal. If people in Milwaukee somehow think that their proposal is unique, it isn't. Their contention that allowing the Bucks to leave will cost the state $80 million is laughable when the alternative is going to cost the state at least $250 million.

It seems like a key problem here is that even if a city says "No" to a team, like Houston did to Bud Adams and Seattle did to Clay Bennett, there is some middle-American city that's more than willing to fork over public money to build for-private-profit palace. Until cities wise up and stop allowing themselves to be used as leverage, this will keep happening.

 

They should move to Seattle so Ray Allen can be reborn

 

OKC sells out almost every home game, so there's no chance in the most Vince mc Mahon of ways.