Basketball - Real Madrid President wants team include in NBA Eastern Conference
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Blackhawkswincup
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Unless air travel improves to the point where Madrid is a <5 hour flight from Milkwaukee/Chicago (it is currently ~8 ish hours), or <7 from Portland/Sacramento/San Fran/LA (currently ~11 hours) , hard to see how this could happen.
BKIslandersFan
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Does he know how NBA expansion process works?
Hope he is ready to fork out 2 billion dollars, minimum. Not that they will give a spot to them but thats what it will cost if they do expand.
Hope he is ready to fork out 2 billion dollars, minimum. Not that they will give a spot to them but thats what it will cost if they do expand.
It's not going to happen. The team will fail. You would need its own European division for such an idea to work and the last time a US supports league tried a European league it failed.
Supposedly that's been discussed with "little interest from other teams" AKA - We ain't paying for it, sorry!
Voight
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Same reason an NFL team in London is never going to happen.
The travel is just too much, especially in the NBA where you're playing 3-4 games a week. NBPA would never allow it.
It would be rough for say a 23 year old who spent his entire life in Atlanta to move to Madrid. Its one thing to move to the UK where its the same language and similar culture, moving to Spain is a whole different story.
The travel is just too much, especially in the NBA where you're playing 3-4 games a week. NBPA would never allow it.
It would be rough for say a 23 year old who spent his entire life in Atlanta to move to Madrid. Its one thing to move to the UK where its the same language and similar culture, moving to Spain is a whole different story.
LadyStanley
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Without supersonic planes, or the future suborbital rocket trips some have proposed, the flight time won't be reduced anytime soon.
While those teams on the East coast could fly supersonic over the ocean, those in the west or center of North America are currently unable to fly supersonic (even over the pole) as it's currently prohibited (by FAA) to fly supersonic over the land.
While those teams on the East coast could fly supersonic over the ocean, those in the west or center of North America are currently unable to fly supersonic (even over the pole) as it's currently prohibited (by FAA) to fly supersonic over the land.
DoyleG
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A thread based on an RT Link.
Western good - Russian Bad? Is this one better? There are pletny of links just I found it on RT first. Its the RM President saying these things not the Russian boogyman
Florentino Perez ‘dreams’ of seeing Real Madrid play in the NBA
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The nba does not seem to be remotely interested in expanding.The only way the owners will probably agree to do it is as a concession for something. They want to add to the cba such as offer 16 more full-time jobs in exchange for adding a franchise tag.
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If they can't figure out how to make a London NFL team work full-time yet, they aren't anywhere close to figuring out how to implement a European team in a league that plays 82 games.
I can't imagine how Real Madrid as an organization would handle being in a league that tries to implement competitive balance.
I can't imagine how Real Madrid as an organization would handle being in a league that tries to implement competitive balance.
BKIslandersFan
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They will probably have long stretches of home games and long stretches of away games. And Real Madrid will also make some concessions to soften traveling costs for visiting teams.
Its the burden on the Eastern conference teams just as much as it is for Real. Imagine the burden of having to play a team that far away in the first round of the playoffs. That's an 8 hour flight and a 7 hour time difference for a team like the Bulls. It isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. Only way I could ever see it happening is with a new European division, rather than a one-off expansion.
The only reason they have that many social media followers is because of the association with the soccer club.
The NFL one will actually happen because the league is pushing for it. It's not as if Adam Silver came out and said he'd like the NBA to be in Madrid. Whereas the NFL is clearly signalling that it plans to plant a full-time team at some point in the future.
After all, there's a massive difference between having to play 8 home games (once every fortnight for 4 months) and 41 games in the NBA playing every few days.
And with their partnership with Tottenham Hotspur, the NFL have a brand new ready-made 62k stadium to host a team in (a stadium which has dedicated NFL locker rooms and two fields that sit on top of one another...one for soccer one for NFL).
All the signs point to a future NFL team in London. The only signs of a Madrid team in the NBA are in the Real Madrid president's dreams.
