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Columbus mayor wants NBA franchise

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3074326;2153722; said:
The Jackets don't draw because they've been one of the worst teams in the league their entire existence. Their attendance wasn't bad the first few years and during the playoff run. The MLS is hurt by the fact that there are many, many sports fans who simply don't care about soccer. The NBA is one of the top three sports. Hard to compare it to soccer (and hockey, as much as I hate to say it). It should draw better.

I'd like to see the NBA here, but I'd prefer if the Cavs just moved here.
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Novelty lasts about a year, and then the team had better be good...of which there's no evidence a moved Sacramento franchise would be. I can't see it going any better than the Jackets. The NBA is one of the top 3 sports, but they also have a long enough season (like hockey) that if the team sucks they are never going to draw, and if the team sucks for a few years they will be hopelessly in the red. The Cavs still draw in Cleveland, and with Irving to build around they would be beyond silly to move to the state's college-dominated town.
 
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Why would anybody want an NBA franchise when David Stearn and the players have made it abundantly clear that no franchise outside of SOCAL, Chicago, NYC, Boston or South Florida has a shot in hell of building a winner?
 
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What is the NBA?

Cincinnati most likely won't support it. They barely support UC basketball anymore. If it is the Kings will they go back to being the Royals?

And what ORD said:

Why would anybody want an NBA franchise when David Stearn and the players have made it abundantly clear that no franchise outside of SOCAL, Chicago, NYC, Boston or South Florida has a shot in hell of building a winner?
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Bucklion;2153732; said:
Novelty lasts about a year, and then the team had better be good...of which there's no evidence a moved Sacramento franchise would be. I can't see it going any better than the Jackets. The NBA is one of the top 3 sports, but they also have a long enough season (like hockey) that if the team sucks they are never going to draw, and if the team sucks for a few years they will be hopelessly in the red. The Cavs still draw in Cleveland, and with Irving to build around they would be beyond silly to move to the state's college-dominated town.
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I pretty much agree with everything you're saying, although I do think it would draw better than the Jackets.

But, yeah, the key is that they'd need a winner. Columbus is full of front-runners.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2153749; said:
Why would anybody want an NBA franchise when David Stearn and the players have made it abundantly clear that no franchise outside of SOCAL, Chicago, NYC, Boston or South Florida has a shot in hell of building a winner?
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This. The nba is a massive joke that I really couldn't care less about anymore. The league that Jordan-Bird-Magic took global is gone and left with a bunch of spoiled-rotten, filthy-rich, halfwits forming regional aau teams. Fuck it all.

The nba from the early/mid-'80s thru the late '90s was the best thing in sports because there was fierce competition. Nowadays, all these mongoloids are buddies, hugging and kissing before games.
 
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NFBuck;2153779; said:
This. The nba is a massive joke that I really couldn't care less about anymore. The league that Jordan-Bird-Magic took global is gone and left with a bunch of spoiled-rotten, filthy-rich, halfwits forming regional aau teams. Fuck it all.

The nba from the early/mid-'80s thru the late '90s was the best thing in sports because there was fierce competition. Nowadays, all these mongoloids are buddies, hugging and kissing before games.
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It was also just deeper with more talent league-wide. You had a star on almost every team...most people remember Bird, Magic, and Jordan, but there was also Erving/Moses and then Barkley, Isiah Thomas, Olajuwan, DRobinson, Ewing, Sikma, Mullin, Malone/Stockton, Bernard King, Shaq, Penny, Dominique, Reggie Miller, GPayton, Drexler...hell almost every team had at least one guy that it was worth money to pay to see, and they did more than just iso-dunk and gun bricks from 35 feet. I would argue that it was the best stretch of any pro North American sports league ever...and it was gone seemingly almost overnight.
 
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Bucklion;2153804; said:
It was also just deeper with more talent league-wide. You had a star on almost every team...most people remember Bird, Magic, and Jordan, but there was also Erving/Moses and then Barkley, Isiah Thomas, Olajuwan, DRobinson, Ewing, Sikma, Mullin, Malone/Stockton, Bernard King, Shaq, Penny, Dominique, Reggie Miller, GPayton, Drexler...hell almost every team had at least one guy that it was worth money to pay to see, and they did more than just iso-dunk and gun bricks from 35 feet. I would argue that it was the best stretch of any pro North American sports league ever...and it was gone seemingly almost overnight.
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One BIG difference, and this is where I place a lot of the blame...back in that era, most players went to school for 3-4 years. They refined their games in college, and matured. Now, any player with any amount of skill leaves after one year...two if you're lucky. It's a league overrun with spoiled, immature, mentally stunted man-children. It will never be the same until the nba adopts a "3 year rule" like the nfl...and I ain't holding by breath on that.
 
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NFBuck;2153811; said:
One BIG difference, and this is where I place a lot of the blame...back in that era, most players went to school for 3-4 years. They refined their games in college, and matured. Now, any player with any amount of skill leaves after one year...two if you're lucky. It's a league overrun with spoiled, immature, mentally stunted man-children. It will never be the same until the nba adopts a "3 year rule" like the nfl...and I ain't holding by breath on that.
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Can't really argue. Hard for "veteran players' to set a good example when they are 23-24 themselves.
 
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ochre;2153661; said:
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