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Why would they open the expansion doors after the media rights are locked in? The Kings are in trouble by the way, this is a classic setup for the Warriors to steal one in Sacramento then win it back home. I was shocked when ESPN showed a graphic that teams are 26-308 when falling behind 0-2 in a series. Seems like it should be higher than that. A bunch of those wins must be recent.

Didn't a prior article say the A's were covering the costs of this stadium? Or have I lost my mind?

The fact that there hasn't been any credible talk about NBA expansion in the two years since COVID stopped being a major force leads me to believe that it may not actually be coming anytime soon. Remember, expansion is cash up front in exchange for additional slices out of all future revenue pies. Unlike the NHL, the NBA isn't a cabal of bumbling cash-poor turds that relies on expansion fees to not go under. They're not obligated to expand, and revenue-wise they really may not even have to. They're going to get a f-ckton of money on their next national media deals no matter what. Why create two more teams to split it with if you don't need to?

Game 3 of Grizzlies-Lakers being a full week after game 1 is ridiculous. The league has to tighten this :censored: up.

This reads like some realtor post on the Las Vegas subreddit

Oh I know all about the Jets vis-à-vis the Thrashers, I'm just wondering if it's ever been properly noted that, in terms of franchise placement, the NBA doesn't even do the things that the Sunbelt Defense Force - not to mention the league itself - insists that the NHL needs to do, in order to be more like the NBA.

If the Celtics supermax this dumb I swear to god. And yes, he did play like garbage tonight, thank you for asking.

Citation needed. Everybody hates the Astros to some degree after trashgate.

If the best argument for putting a team somewhere is the (false) assumption of an automatic rivalry with the team in the next closest city over 3 hours away, you're off to a very bad start. I'm sure if/when the NHL expands to Houston**, redditoids will try to trump it up as an instant blood feud, even though no other pairing of Dallas-Houston teams in any of the other major sports gives a rat's ass about each other aside from being in the same division, but whatever. Has it been observed/discussed around here that in the NBA (the league that the NHL has pissed all over itself trying to become for the last 30 years), the last three team relocations have all been to much smaller markets? Vancouver > Memphis, Charlotte > New Orleans, Seattle > OKC. The exact opposite of the "more people therefore muh footprint is necessary" approach that some jackasses keep on repeating, yet it didn't adversely effect them then or now. Not a single peep was uttered about "league instability" or whatever the :censored:. If quickly airlifting those failing/inadequately-housed franchises over to new markets got the NBA in any trouble with their media partners, it sure doesn't show in the numbers and everything has clearly long since been forgiven. All three of those destination markets (NO, MEM, OKC) are comparable to greater Quebec City in terms of population, by the way. Yet according to many, the NHL needs to stay in places like Phoenix and SE Florida, needs to have a team in Houston, needs to get back into Atlanta, not just under the very mistaken assumption that people will watch you just because you exist, not just for muh footprint, but also apparently because some media bigwig's eyeballs will explode should the NHL dare leave a city where informercials have beaten their telecasts and they've been reduced to playing actual league contests in a local Costco just so they can keep on clinging to the heckin media market like some turd stuck in a dog's ass hairs. How about somebody explain the far more successful league of the two doing the exact opposite of this when things clearly aren't working? **Remember, the fees from their previous, completely uncalled-for expansion got completely swallowed up by COVID. I'll bet money on the NHL expanding again before the NBA.

Nah I like truck stops. One of my favorite restaurants (really just a Denny's knockoff, I didn't have exquisite tastes) as a kid was in a truck stop and it was a treat whenever I got to go there. When I first moved here before finding a job I had a brief ritual where I would trek out towards 75 mid-morning, grab a deli sub and some sides from Publix, head over to I believe Flying J in Dade City (been a while, idk for sure but that sounds/looks right) and hang out and chow down. At some point I'd head in to use the restroom then leave and bomb around the boonies for a while before heading home. Then I found work and that was the end of that. So yeah, weird fact about me for the day. To make this semi on-topic, surely this Vegas development blows up the Utah proposal, right?

The A's name doesn't belong to any one city, they might as well carry it forward. This probably won't be their last stop anyway, if Vegas eventually caves in on itself like we all think it will.

> We would have suspended anybody for one game for this type of act, but considering that Draymond has a long history with this kind of stuff, we're gonna go ahead and suspend him for one game. 10/10. I should expect nothing less from the doofus who took a hatchet to the entire Pistons franchise.

turn down for HUWHAT Isn't this the same franchise that has to go out and panhandle just to afford the likes of Mitch Moreland?

I love how Green was suspended for one game because of his history. Like I would think that one playoff game would be the bare minimum for Haynesworthing somebody, before taking into account Green's extensive history of cheap shots or his absolutely abhorrent behavior in the immediate aftermath of that incident. The NBA might as well rehire Tim Donaghy to ref game four.

-No. There are over six million people in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Where do people, on here and elsewhere, get the testicles to keep on giving this same tired BS demographics lecture, as if the Sens haven't been getting mouth:censored:ed by their arena location for the last three decades and the exurban bloodbaths in Glendale and Sunrise just simply never happened?

Dallas is almost too big to fail. The DFW area is obviously massive. I don't know their TV situation but I imagine no team in Houston means that, in addition to the usual Dallas territory, whatever broadcast area would be covered by a Houston franchise goes to the Stars instead*. And even with all that they were still under league ownership and lost buckets of money in the late 00s, and sold for a pittance in the early 2010s. *But we still REALLY NEED a team in Houston. Can you imagine a Dallas-Houston hockey rivalry?? You don't understand, we NEED a Footprint in Houston to Grow The Game!

This thing is far from over. If the Warriors hold serve at home - doesn't seem like a tall task, given that their record is much better there AND they're going to get a lot of officiating help - then the Kings will be under a ton of pressure in game five.

In the first game Draymond was also keeping somebody (I think Sabonis) tied up on the ground in the backcourt on the missed Wiggins 3. God I hope someone gives this asswipe what he has coming before he retires.

State Farm Arena to Krish Salon (random business on the same intersection identified in the article) = 29.1 miles And just for fun: Kaseya Center (Heat) to FLA Live Arena = 35.0 miles Footprint Center to Desert Diamond Arena/Jobberdome = 18.1 miles Canadian Tire Centre to LaBreton Flats = 17.2 miles

That's been Booker and the Suns for years now. Loser core of stat queens that don't want to do the dirty work, only ascended to relevancy when they got Chris Paul (who's a dick), then when that sputtered out this year they traded the farm and gave KD the frontrunning internet troll a free bailout from the fire-hosing monsoon in Brooklyn that he orchestrated in the first place. What a nauseating team to potentially have holding up the trophy. I'd be overjoyed if the Clippers took them out.

The KG era was by far the best they've ever looked. It was very 90s corny-fierce, but it worked and was befitting of the name. The launch set was too generic, post-KG was a non-committal reeling-in of the prior set, and their current "primaries" (although I feel like they never wear them, for the better in this case) are total garbage. I think part of their problem is they're just another blue team, and... that's it. Do they have to be blue? They're not the Knicks or Warriors, they have no tradition they need to stick to. For the KG era I liked the black alts, white home, and [sizable gap] and the blue primary roads in that order. I kind of like the black (or is it charcoal?) with lime they've been wearing this year. Maybe look at going that way.

Anyway Minnesota's beating up on the Thunder as I type this so the playoff field is as good as set: WEST Nuggets over Timberwolves: The Wolves are a train wreck, there shouldn't any possible way to blow this barring serious injuries. Grizzlies over Lakers: Last time the Lakers were the sp0000ky low seed they faceplanted in round one. Now they're two years older and have literal nobodies in the playoff rotation. I don't want to hear it. Kings over Warriors: Normally I give the defending champs plot armor, but GS fits the same profile as Brooklyn last year and the Lakers the year before: sitting back all year and settling for a crap win-loss record while still having the nerve to beat the "y'alls don't want to see us in y'alls building in the playoffs y'all" drum through the media, then oops out in one. Flipped the switch, lightbulb was out. They also don't have a bunch of guys playing for contracts this time around. (That said, if the Warriors do win this series, they probably beat Memphis too since they are clearly in their heads, then anything can happen against Durant and the Suns.) Suns over Clippers: Am I crazy or is this the real Western Finals? I don't trust Phoenix mentally, I don't trust the Clippers physically, and I trust Denver less than either of them. Phoenix is better on paper. - Suns over Nuggets: Denver is a guilty-until-proven-innocent team and they did absolutely nothing to separate themselves this year. Meanwhile Phoenix has beaten them twice with Durant in the lineup. Grizzlies over Kings: There's a non-zero chance that Memphis self-destructs and loses (more) players by way of Morant getting himself suspended for more off-court bull:censored: with teenagers or Brooks starting a brawl or something, and gives the Kings a shot, but how can you really predict that? - Suns over Grizzlies: Somebody has to win this conference and the sea is parting for the winner of Suns/Clippers. EAST Bucks over Heat: Miami is always somewhat of a threat, although that was said in 2021 as well. Celtics over Hawks: I don't trust the Celtics farther than I throw them, but the Hawks been a mess all year and don't seem to have gotten any better under Quin Snyder. This would be a pretty galactic choke. 76ers over Nets: The Nets look like the classic star-less underdog that puts a (needed?) scare into the favored team before getting dealt with. Can I call them going up 2-1 in the series before Philly kicks it up a notch? Cavs over Knicks: Randle laid an egg last time he had a great season and the team made the playoffs. I'm not buying the Knicks, at least not yet. - Cavs over Bucks: Giannis has had a little bit of a fall-off this year if advanced stats are any indication, Middleton's been hurt all year and hasn't gotten going, Garland's been giving the Cavs prime Middleton-like offense, Jrue can't guard both him and Mitchell, both teams have dueling DPoY candidates but the Cavs have been the best defensive team in the league... unless I'm missing something, this looks surprisingly winnable for Cleveland. The Bucks do have a history of choking the higher seed when they appear to be bulletproof. 76ers over Celtics: Embiid looks like the best, most motivated player in the league right now, and Harden is better than Jaylen Brown. The Celtics meanwhile have been too cool to take of business ever since the December Phoenix game, it's gonna catch up to them at some point. - 76ers over Cavs: Embiid would easily be the best player in this series, Cleveland gets a playoff education. FINALS Suns over 76ers: I'd love to see Embiid (and to a lesser extent Harden) win it all instead of Chris Paul and KD the superteam farmer, but life's a and then you die. The good news is that the last team to win the title with fewer than 47 wins is the 78 Wizards, so any Western team not named Denver, Memphis, or Sacramento is up against some serious history in that regard.

That'll show em

So ignoring the Sunday issue... I know they don't own the Jazz anymore, but is Larry Miller corp or whatever still capable of being principal owners of a big league team, as far as we know? Or at this point are they just another group of yokels and pitchmen making websites and drawing on napkins while they wait for someone with actual money to come along, like Nashville? If it's the former I would think this puts their bid way out in front of all the other roll call cities. I think we've established that no one important wants to own/build anything MLB-related in Portland or Montreal, and Vegas entered the "two more weeks" meme zone a while ago.