LadyStanley
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Full Sportscast: Golden Knights arrive in Winnipeg, NBA headed to Las Vegas?
3rd major league to come to town?
3rd major league to come to town?
Full Sportscast: Golden Knights arrive in Winnipeg, NBA headed to Las Vegas?
3rd major league to come to town?
Tommy, they have an arena - T-Mobile - and they have owners - the Maloofs. The only question is whether this will be enough for them to supplant Mexico City. Seattle I expect will get a team regardless.
Why would the NBA want the maloofs back?
no they don't, Sno.... didn't MGM buy the SA (Silver) Stars from the portfolio of the Holts in San Antonio and renamed them the Aces and at Mandalay Bay is their new arena.....Tommy, they have an arena - T-Mobile - and they have owners - the Maloofs. The only question is whether this will be enough for them to supplant Mexico City. Seattle I expect will get a team regardless.
That's going to be one heck of an oversaturated marked with three teams if this happens. Good thing for the NHL that they got there first, got good first, and joined at a time when they were a major civic institution at a time of major crisis and pain (obviously not suggesting that the last one is a good thing, though), so all in all they have probably built a very durable fanbase so it might be a newcoming NBA team that'd get squeezed out down the road rather than the Knights.
One of the unintended side effects of the Supreme Court's striking down of laws against betting on sports is that there's now no reason for the NBA not to have an expansion team in Las Vegas
Barring massive population growth, nope.Here's the issue the NBA isn't gonna expand just to expand. It has to make finanical scene for them to wait to split up the pie 2 more times.
I don't see that court ruling making a darn difference on rather NBA goes with vegas or not. The issue is its already going to have 2 Pro teams by the time the NBA expands. Can Vegas support a 3rd pro team? I'm not sure they can.
They'll be up against Seattle and Mexico City for 2 spots. I don't see them beating out Seattle who will have Donald Bonderman (current NBA boston minority owner) as one of the owners and Mexico City.
After the Clippers sale and reported Seattle $650m expansion I dread to see what the NBA would ask for in expansion fees. $1.2-$1.6 billion?
The fact that MGM, the most outspoken of the corporations against the All-Star game fiasco, is in support, and will likely be the ones to help bring the team to Las Vegas kind of eliminates that issue.NBA has bigger fish to fry than Vegas.
And Las Vegas experience with the NBA All Stars game has not exactly been great.
The race isn't really a race.I didnt even know Mexico was on the NBAs radar. Who wins that race, MLB or the NBA?
Mexico has enough middl class and up people to sustain a team, its not just poor people and drug lords down there.The race isn't really a race.
There's a lot of issues with Mexico. Currency not being the least of them. Do you realize how much a team would have to charge to get a crowd in Mexico? How much does that bring in revenue-wise in relation to a small market MLB team? How does that pencil out paying players in US Dollars? If you put the team in the obvious market for greatest success, Mexico City (and they won't,) you've got major Denver-plus level issues with the park unless you put the walls back super far.
Mexico is not an opportunity, it's an opportunity with a ton of issues attached for any league.
Mexico middle class is a lot different than American or Canadian middle class.Mexico has enough middl class and up people to sustain a team, its not just poor people and drug lords down there.
Mexico middle class is a lot different than American or Canadian middle class.
An MLB ticket isn't going to be a middle class thing in Mexico if they're going to try to have the same amount of revenue as an American or Canadian team.