NBA expansion to Seattle is on the table

Here's mine. I don't particularly like Aminu or Vonleh (yet?), but I'd protect them as assets. I protect Aminu because of his contract, and leave Crabbe unprotected because of his. I protect Vonleh because of his potential and leave Davis unprotected because of his lack of potential.

Lillard
CJ
Harkless
Turner
Plumlee
Meyers
Vonleh
Aminu

 

This shit just made me spit out my hot chocolate up here at the Starbucks FAMS!

 

Harkless is cheap - it's Crabbe that's expensive.

 

FTFY

 

God I hope so! Miss that I-5 rivalry!

 

Damn, my wife loves those things!

 

Two more cellar-dwellers!

 

I think a realignment is the most important thing to me right now. I want a Pacific Division like back in the day!

 

That shit works itself out after a couple years.

 

And Sheed and Dame getting popped in the yellow hummer was on the drive home from a game up there.

 

Just look at how saturated the PG and C positions are these days. And how much money there is to go around. Who in the west is a true middling cellar dwellar? All the shitty teams (outside of maybe horribly run SAC) in the west (LAL, DEN, etc) have tons of young players they're developing. Hell, we have like 12 players that can warrant at least 15 mpg, and not nearly enough minutes to go around.

This dynamic has changed from just a decade ago when the league was so diluted of talent. If there was ever a time for expansion, now would be it. ESPECIALLY with the influx of money.

 

Regardless of whether Seattle becomes a great team, adding teams will only increase the amount of irrelevant teams in the league. Without looking at history I'm going to say that in any given season there are never more than 8 really great teams (that's probably generous) - the other 22 are somewhere between good and terrible. Adding two more teams isn't going to change the top of the league - if anything it'll reduce it to 7. Those two extra teams are going to be added to the 22 that already occupy the middle and bottom of the league. So now instead of having 22 irrelevant teams we'll have 24, or 25 if they siphon talent away from teams that would have otherwise been in the top 8.

 

I think in the next two seasons calabro is going to see how great this fan base is and with the uptick of this franchise, he's not going anywhere. One of the top 5 teams to watch in the NBA on a night to night basis. He's in a really good spot and he knew that when he took the job.

 

Come on, man, don't make it so easy for the wife jokes by serving up lines like this.

 

The only reason I posted that was because I just got an email from Sly and Denny saying they want S2 to now be all rainbows and unicorns. No way any of you geeks.....errrr.......cool guys would use this post by me to be rude or disrespectful to the mother of my children.

 

You have more respect for the Trump-lights around here than I do, then.