TRILLip Brooks
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c1up;1715811 said:
nah move the clippers back to san diego
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nah move the clippers back to san diego
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NeighberHoodPusher;1715815 said:nah move the clippers back to san diego
That wouldn't be bad at all, that would be great
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m. inferno;1715150 said:big misconception bout Vegas....that shit is iilegal in Las Vegas
u sure?.......
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Hip-Hop One
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They can't compete with the Bulls popularity.
Just move the team to Seattle. They would fit right in.
Just move the team to Seattle. They would fit right in.
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IC's Patrick Bateman
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i actually kinda like this idea, i'm a lifelong Bulls fan but Bulls attendance stays maxed out there really is more room for NBA basketball in Chicago. consider how large of a market the burbs are a lot of these families with money to spend don't want to drive out to the shitty neighborhood around the United Center. if they put a new franchise up in the Northwest side suburbs i bet they'd get a lot of attendance and a crosstown rivalry will only increase interest all around including for the Bulls although Reindsdorf won't see it that way. that guy has major pull with the commish he'll block this from happening so it doesn't really matter.
on a side note Bernstein needs to find some relevant shit to write about - why he ain't blog about Boozer's double double return over this bullshit? FOH with this pointless speculation
on a side note Bernstein needs to find some relevant shit to write about - why he ain't blog about Boozer's double double return over this bullshit? FOH with this pointless speculation
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dj expanium
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I was just thinking about that. Gainesville wouldn't be bad either in my eyes or even Tampa Bay.caddo man;1714131 said:professional sport teams are going go somewhere that the corporate community will support them.
The Hornets never made the area theirs. How about having games in Jackson, Miss. Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola or Tallahassee, florida. They have to win the area to have people travel to watch the games.
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dj expanium
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m. inferno;1715150 said:big misconception bout Vegas....that shit is iilegal in Las Vegas
Maybe not in Vegas, but there are places 60 miles outside that have legalized brothels. That still wouldn't stop the players from doing so.
http://www.lasvegaslogue.com/prostitution
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smokelahoma
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O Capone;1713738 said:Move the Hornets to Seattle, re-name them the Sonics and give them the Sonics history/banners/trophies/retired #s...
Give the Bobcats the Hornets name/history/banners.....
It's the only thing that makes sense....
Hurricane Katrina moved the Hornets to OKC and made OKC want a team... Final result being the Sonics leaving Seattle... This would make up for it... Plus losing Durant and Westbrook won't be so bad if we can get CP3 here in the 206!
Ballmer has the cash in hand... I wonder how serious he is about owning a team, Stern already said he would like Ballmer as an owner... Hopefully Ballmer comes to the rescue...
actually homie, we wanted a team LOOOONG before Hurricane Katrina and we were rewarded for taking in the Hornets. We deserved it, period. and I appreciate you not comin on here and slamming OKC because your team left. thats a good look, I also hope that you get the Hornets or at least some other team in the future.
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b@squ1@t redux
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only reason the sonics left seattle is because the fans were buying too many tickets
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dj expanium
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More like the opposite.b@squ1@t redux;1717205 said:only reason the sonics left seattle is because the fans were buying too many tickets
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smokelahoma
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b@squ1@t redux;1717205 said:only reason the sonics left seattle is because the fans were buying too many tickets
you cant be serious...
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smokelahoma;1717268 said:you cant be serious...
I think he is playing
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smokelahoma
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caddo man;1717327 said:I think he is playing
gotta be........
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b@squ1@t redux
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dj expanium;1717220 said:More like the opposite.
less like the opposite
smokelahoma;1717268 said:you cant be serious...
you cant be serious
caddo man;1717327 said:I think he is playing
i think you're playing
smokelahoma;1717391 said:gotta be........
cant be
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smokelahoma;1717179 said:actually homie, we wanted a team LOOOONG before Hurricane Katrina and we were rewarded for taking in the Hornets. We deserved it, period. and I appreciate you not comin on here and slamming OKC because your team left. thats a good look, I also hope that you get the Hornets or at least some other team in the future.
it's not about "deserving it"... no city "deserves it" or "doesn't deserve it"... it's about who got the power, when Bennett bought the team he had the power...
Everyone has to realize that the Sonics leaving Seattle had absolutely nothing to do with the city
http://www.sonicsgate.org tells the whole story...
bring back an NBA team to seattle!
Seattle was the first city to average over 20,000 fans a game over an entire NBA season.
- Seattle led the NBA in total attendance 4 times
- Seattle had one of the longest sellout streaks in the NBA during the mid to late 90's despite one of the highest average ticket prices in the league
Seattle is one of the best NBA and basketball cities around.
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dj expanium
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Must be opposite's day!!!b@squ1@t redux;1717673 said:less like the opposite
you cant be serious
i think you're playing
cant be
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Sorry O capone but I just read on Nola.com and other blogs that has the city and the state already has people elboing each other to get minority stakes in the Hornets. Now all they need is a 50% owner. I wouldnt be surprised if they all get together and just become a investment group.
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smokelahoma
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O Capone;1718496 said:it's not about "deserving it"... no city "deserves it" or "doesn't deserve it"... it's about who got the power, when Bennett bought the team he had the power...
Everyone has to realize that the Sonics leaving Seattle had absolutely nothing to do with the city
http://www.sonicsgate.org tells the whole story...
dog I know the story. and what I meant by deserving it was in more of a just deserving it type of thing. not that the NBA took it away to reward us. and you are sadly mistaken if you think that ticket sales had nothin to do with them moving.
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New Orleans should fight to keep the Hornets, take from a Seattle guy
Kevin Nesgoda is a free-lance writer in Seattle.
Hi, New Orleans. It’s us, up here in Seattle, and we’ve been watching you for a few days. Your situation with the Hornets has us very intrigued and we would be lying if we said that we didn’t want your basketball team really badly, and we are probably arrogant enough to say that we deserve the team more than you do.
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Share 0 Comments I used to think that I’d agree with those sentiments and now that there is a real possibility that we could get your team, I’m discovering that I’m not exactly as excited and joyful as I thought I would be.
I know what it’s like to lose a basketball team. Some of you are old enough to know what it’s like as well, with your experience of having the Jazz leave in 1979. You’ve had five years with the Jazz and the legend, “Pistol” Pete Maravich. Then in 2002 you were bestowed the Charlotte Hornets and you’ve technically had eight years with them and now that run could be coming to an end too.
I had the Seattle Supersonics for 20 years. The Sonics were the first thing that formed a bond between my Dad and I. We’d get pizza and sit on the living room floor and we’d watch Dale Ellis throw up and make incredible shots; we loved how tough the X-Man was and how smooth Eddie Johnson was. We attended numerous games together and watched many, many more on television. I could go on forever about the memories I have of my team. From the first game I watched against the Rockets in 1988 to the day the city of Seattle threw in the towel and let Clay Bennett win, I was standing by my team (and still am).
How many fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, aunts, uncles and grandparents have forged better relationships at the arena or in front of a television set because of the Hornets? If it’s half the number of the stories I’ve heard on how the Sonics brought people together, then the stories in New Orleans could be countless.
Many of you are using the Hornets to bond together after one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States, a disaster that left your basketball arena under water and your team forced to play in the dust bowl that is Oklahoma City.
George Shinn wanted to keep your team in Oklahoma. He later proclaimed he brought it back for the fans, but that was a lie. It wasn’t because of you, the fans, it was because of David Stern's wishes. And now David Stern has said he’s going to give it his best faith effort to keep the Hornets in New Orleans.
I wouldn’t believe him. I really wouldn’t. He said the same thing to us at the start of Sonicsgate. It was a lie. The moment Clay Bennett purchased the team it was as good as gone. No matter what we would have done we could have never kept our team and Kevin Durant. Our basketball team was Oklahoma City’s reward for your misery.
Do you really believe Stern?
He’s used New Orleans as a public relations seminar for the NBA, and now that the charity photo-op is over he has lost interest. He’s looking for local buyers, but he won’t find any. There was a chance to find one with Gary Chouest, but he’s faded away like the size of his bank account. Of course, there are rumors there could be a new group of local investors trying to come together to purchase the team. Same thing happened in Seattle.
Too little, too late.
We have a very wealthy man, a very savvy businessman, a man who is a huge basketball fan and a lover of his community. He wanted the Sonics, but his bid to buy the team was rejected. Yes, Steve Ballmer wants a basketball team and he is flanked by other billionaires who want the same thing. They want the NBA back in Seattle and they want it today.
Seattle doesn’t have an arena, but that appears to be changing soon. Seattle media is reporting that there are arena plans moving forward and it’s to lure the Hornets to "greener pastures" as they’d say. I don’t know how true any of that is and I won’t believe it until a date is scheduled for a groundbreaking of the new Xbox Center in Seattle or Bellevue. I’ve been spurned by false expectations too many times. I do know one thing though: we want your basketball team. We want it bad, we really do.
I know right now you are hoping and praying the Hornets are going to stay. You are reading the headlines in ESPN about how the NBA is going to make it work. We read the same things. We had national support to keep the Sonics in Seattle and a lot of people were very upset in the media when the Sonics were gone. There are still some Sportscenter anchors who take cheap shots at the Thunder during their highlights. New Orleans is not even getting that support early on and it makes me a little bit sad. Take Michael Wilbon on Pardon the Interruption on Tuesday; he mentioned wanting your team in Seattle, just like everyone else, but you.
I and most in Seattle would prefer an expansion team or our team back. We know that’s not going to happen. Not in this economy and not with the threat of contraction in the league.
We will, however, take the consolation prize of Chris Paul and the new Seattle Supersonics.
Writing that sentence makes me giddy at the thought of CP3 in green and gold, playing 41 nights plus playoffs in Seattle and warming up my winter nights with pro ball again. It’s something I’ve been missing for the last three years. However, if it does come to that New Orleans, I’m sorry. I really am. You’re going to have jerks from our city taunting you and doing everything in their ability to make you angry. Same thing happened to us and is still happening to us with people from Oklahoma City.
Most of us are going to be excited, but melancholy at the same time. We’ll have a basketball team, but we’ll know exactly how you are feeling in that loss. If we do take your basketball team, it’s going to be quick (and for some painless, though others not so much). 99.9% of us are going to be sorry and wish it didn’t happen to you guys. Most of us will not be on your fan sites and blogs gloating.
I do hope that you fight for your team. Get into that arena and make sure that you get above the benchmark. Hold rallies before and after games. Make the NBA know you want to stay. Trust me, if you don’t fight and just assume the team is going to stay because David Stern said the team was going to stay, you’ll be sorry and regret it. We in Seattle have warned you.
Fight, New Orleans, Fight!
We want your basketball team and we may already have our hooks in it. We won’t know until March 1st when relocation papers are due or until a new CBA agreement is signed.
But until then, fight.
Kevin Nesgoda is a free-lance writer in Seattle.
Hi, New Orleans. It’s us, up here in Seattle, and we’ve been watching you for a few days. Your situation with the Hornets has us very intrigued and we would be lying if we said that we didn’t want your basketball team really badly, and we are probably arrogant enough to say that we deserve the team more than you do.
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Share 0 Comments I used to think that I’d agree with those sentiments and now that there is a real possibility that we could get your team, I’m discovering that I’m not exactly as excited and joyful as I thought I would be.
I know what it’s like to lose a basketball team. Some of you are old enough to know what it’s like as well, with your experience of having the Jazz leave in 1979. You’ve had five years with the Jazz and the legend, “Pistol” Pete Maravich. Then in 2002 you were bestowed the Charlotte Hornets and you’ve technically had eight years with them and now that run could be coming to an end too.
I had the Seattle Supersonics for 20 years. The Sonics were the first thing that formed a bond between my Dad and I. We’d get pizza and sit on the living room floor and we’d watch Dale Ellis throw up and make incredible shots; we loved how tough the X-Man was and how smooth Eddie Johnson was. We attended numerous games together and watched many, many more on television. I could go on forever about the memories I have of my team. From the first game I watched against the Rockets in 1988 to the day the city of Seattle threw in the towel and let Clay Bennett win, I was standing by my team (and still am).
How many fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, aunts, uncles and grandparents have forged better relationships at the arena or in front of a television set because of the Hornets? If it’s half the number of the stories I’ve heard on how the Sonics brought people together, then the stories in New Orleans could be countless.
Many of you are using the Hornets to bond together after one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States, a disaster that left your basketball arena under water and your team forced to play in the dust bowl that is Oklahoma City.
George Shinn wanted to keep your team in Oklahoma. He later proclaimed he brought it back for the fans, but that was a lie. It wasn’t because of you, the fans, it was because of David Stern's wishes. And now David Stern has said he’s going to give it his best faith effort to keep the Hornets in New Orleans.
I wouldn’t believe him. I really wouldn’t. He said the same thing to us at the start of Sonicsgate. It was a lie. The moment Clay Bennett purchased the team it was as good as gone. No matter what we would have done we could have never kept our team and Kevin Durant. Our basketball team was Oklahoma City’s reward for your misery.
Do you really believe Stern?
He’s used New Orleans as a public relations seminar for the NBA, and now that the charity photo-op is over he has lost interest. He’s looking for local buyers, but he won’t find any. There was a chance to find one with Gary Chouest, but he’s faded away like the size of his bank account. Of course, there are rumors there could be a new group of local investors trying to come together to purchase the team. Same thing happened in Seattle.
Too little, too late.
We have a very wealthy man, a very savvy businessman, a man who is a huge basketball fan and a lover of his community. He wanted the Sonics, but his bid to buy the team was rejected. Yes, Steve Ballmer wants a basketball team and he is flanked by other billionaires who want the same thing. They want the NBA back in Seattle and they want it today.
Seattle doesn’t have an arena, but that appears to be changing soon. Seattle media is reporting that there are arena plans moving forward and it’s to lure the Hornets to "greener pastures" as they’d say. I don’t know how true any of that is and I won’t believe it until a date is scheduled for a groundbreaking of the new Xbox Center in Seattle or Bellevue. I’ve been spurned by false expectations too many times. I do know one thing though: we want your basketball team. We want it bad, we really do.
I know right now you are hoping and praying the Hornets are going to stay. You are reading the headlines in ESPN about how the NBA is going to make it work. We read the same things. We had national support to keep the Sonics in Seattle and a lot of people were very upset in the media when the Sonics were gone. There are still some Sportscenter anchors who take cheap shots at the Thunder during their highlights. New Orleans is not even getting that support early on and it makes me a little bit sad. Take Michael Wilbon on Pardon the Interruption on Tuesday; he mentioned wanting your team in Seattle, just like everyone else, but you.
I and most in Seattle would prefer an expansion team or our team back. We know that’s not going to happen. Not in this economy and not with the threat of contraction in the league.
We will, however, take the consolation prize of Chris Paul and the new Seattle Supersonics.
Writing that sentence makes me giddy at the thought of CP3 in green and gold, playing 41 nights plus playoffs in Seattle and warming up my winter nights with pro ball again. It’s something I’ve been missing for the last three years. However, if it does come to that New Orleans, I’m sorry. I really am. You’re going to have jerks from our city taunting you and doing everything in their ability to make you angry. Same thing happened to us and is still happening to us with people from Oklahoma City.
Most of us are going to be excited, but melancholy at the same time. We’ll have a basketball team, but we’ll know exactly how you are feeling in that loss. If we do take your basketball team, it’s going to be quick (and for some painless, though others not so much). 99.9% of us are going to be sorry and wish it didn’t happen to you guys. Most of us will not be on your fan sites and blogs gloating.
I do hope that you fight for your team. Get into that arena and make sure that you get above the benchmark. Hold rallies before and after games. Make the NBA know you want to stay. Trust me, if you don’t fight and just assume the team is going to stay because David Stern said the team was going to stay, you’ll be sorry and regret it. We in Seattle have warned you.
Fight, New Orleans, Fight!
We want your basketball team and we may already have our hooks in it. We won’t know until March 1st when relocation papers are due or until a new CBA agreement is signed.
But until then, fight.
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lol ticket sales had ZERO to do with it...smokelahoma;1718610 said:dog I know the story. and what I meant by deserving it was in more of a just deserving it type of thing. not that the NBA took it away to reward us. and you are sadly mistaken if you think that ticket sales had nothin to do with them moving.
http://www.databasebasketball.com/teams/teamatt.htm?tm=Sea&lg=n
That link shows that our 1 bad year was the year everyone knew the team was leaving... Our building did not hold a lot of people only 17k.... So there were scattered seats at the top of the building that's about it... our % of seats filled was top 10 the 5 years prior to Bennett buying the team...
People from out of town think we lost our team due to lack of support... Not even close to the problem... The problem was the team got sold to out of town owners and thats it... Our arena is sub-par and due for renovation or we need a new one but Clay Bennett made no attempt to do that... He came up with a ridiculous proposal that any state would have denied in order to find a way to OKC...
caddo man;1718602 said:Sorry O capone but I just read on Nola.com and other blogs that has the city and the state already has people elboing each other to get minority stakes in the Hornets. Now all they need is a 50% owner. I wouldnt be surprised if they all get together and just become a investment group.
It's not profitable to stay in NO... It would be nice if they could but they are gonna be sold to the highest bidder and they will play where that owner wants to play... When you say ALL THEY NEED is a 50% owner that's um kinda MAJOR.... The reason the NBA is taking over is because no one wanted to buy the team and lose money... That owner so far does not exist and the NBA took over to find it... If Steve Ballmer becomes that owner the team will come to Seattle... If it's someone else maybe KC... I don't see anyone paying to keep the team in NO tho, it's not smart business....
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