population doesn't matter, if it did then they wouldn't have moved seattle to oklahoma city which has a lower one.
Come again? Population doesn't matter? That's ridiculous. It matters a lot. The Sonics moved DESPITE that difference because there were other factors that outweighed that drop. Population is a big factor when it comes to moves.
^^ Yes, but building the stadium actually does matter. See: Seattle, 2008. As for jerseys, how about:
When I opened the thread I didn't realize it was from 2004. I saw the article state that the arena would be done by the 2007-2008 season and was like "uhh....?".
big population != big success look at the clippers, they've been a sorry team for so long. it's unnecessary for the clippers to continue being in LA(imo should go to seattle, or go back to san diego). basically the only thing that will matter is whether the team is good or not, the nets are pretty mediocre so after their first season I would imagine it being as empty as MSG, which is only filled when a premier team is playing there. this is just gonna end up being bandwagon central where NY will 1.) root for the team closest to them when both the nets and knicks suck 2.) root for the other NY team if they end up being a playoff team, even if it's not the closest. you can bet that if the clippers and lakers swapped rosters, maybe around half of those laker "fans" would be clipper fans. another thing is that there are cities which simply do not care for basketball, vancouver has a large population but they hardly cared about their team and fan base was never that good.
Yeah, the debate over this proposed stadium is so old, the red tape over the issue miles long, check out this article from 2003: "Kidd says he won't play on Long Island" "Maybe I have a say" in the Nets moving, says 2003 Jason Kidd. Ha-ha. Jose, New York is the mecca of basketball. To suggest that our nation's most populous (by far) and basketball-crazed city cannot support two professional basketball franchises is unsubstantiated (especially considering that much of the Nets' current support is based in NYC).
East Rutherford, New Jersey isn't far away from NYC at all. It's a suburb basically. Would be like Sugar Land to Houston. New Yorkers can easily support both teams.
It didnt matter in the case of Super Sonics because the population of the two cities were pretty much the same. Seattle = 600k OK City = 550k
you guys are forgetting about metro area, because plenty of people who live in the suburbs of every major city go downtown to watch the team play. and at aghast, all I'm saying is that this theory that a large population automatically means big success is wrong. this is just going to become bandwagon central. seattle's metro area has 3.2 million people.
I remember not to long ago when the Nets actually made the finals (man, weird to think that happened this decade,) they STILL had some of the poorest attendance in the league. I don't have the stats, but even when they were winning lots of games with Kidd, that arena was never full.
Seattle has a metropolitan area, twice the size of Oklahoma City. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County,[3] the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. [4] The city's estimated population as of 2006 was 537,734[5], with a 2008 estimated population of 1,206,142[6] in the metropolitan area. In 2008, the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,275,758 residents.[7] It is one of two state capitals that share its name with its state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle The encompassing Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan statistical area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest.[2] Seattle is part of the 13th largest combined statistical area (CSA) in the U.S. A coastal city and major seaport, it is located in the western part of the state on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 96 miles (154 km) south of the Canada – United States border. A major economic, cultural and educational center in the region, Seattle is the county seat of King County. By 2007 Census estimate, the city has a municipal population of 594,210,[6] making it the twenty-fourth largest city by population in the US, and a metropolitan area population of 3,263,497.[2]
That is their hope. BTW - Is there anything on their team we want? and don't say Vince Carter Rocket River
