Expansion only makes sense if they believe those cities will be very profitable markets to warrant additions slices of the pie. If the pie would get bigger all NBA owners can get more money. If the pie stays the same then the expansion fees are only a one time cash grab while harming each franchise for eternity. Some posters here have been claiming expansion is a near certainty since owners would get ~$5 billion expansion fee or such. But this reporting further illustrates that there's downsides to the owners as well - so nothing is certain. The way media deals have gone up huge amounts the next one in 10-20 years might be 400 billion or such. Then it'll seem really short sighted to have lost a portion of that much larger revenue stream for some prior one time $5 billion cash grab.
Another reason I think the NBA will wait on expansion, and its a small reason, is they might want to wait till the Trail Blazers are sold and possibly another team if they hit the market soon. Less teams on the market will drive the sale prices up. I think they would want to keep the supply low to make demand higher. Oh and I just one, with the recent sales of some these teams and the cost of purchase being so high, the new owners may not want to split the new TV money even more.
And it waters down the talent pool further. The early projections that you shared are that 2027 looks like complete shit. I think we're going to start seeing the effects of AAU being absolute garbage.
Nate you want to grammar check me --- you really think that is wise to bait me If i decide to really take this to the next level I would be banned and as tempting as that is -- your not worth it so I am out until we get real news. You bring out the worst in me and I am ashamed that i let it happen ( way to often ) and it's part of the reason I am only around from time to time. I wish the rest of you the best and sorry sometimes some of you get caught in the crossfire but GO Blazers
That's the closest thing to "you need a new arena ASAP or you could lose your team" without outright saying it. Thats David Stern 101.
If the team isn't going to move, why was the Moda built on secret giant pontoons so close to the river? The Blazers and the arena could literally be floated to Seattle... or Vegas.
We keep worrying about Seattle but I suspect Vegas is a bigger threat. A lot easier to put together an ownership group for Vegas.
If Portlnad wants to hold onto the Blazers, the city may have to come up with a viable plan for a new arena
Blazers should take the money the state just came up with for the new baseball stadium. Bird in hand.
If PDX baseball can use "jock tax" to pay for the stadium why can't NBA use that? Probably been billions from NBA players that Oregon has collected taxes on.
It's not the most comforting thing I've heard. Hopefully we'll just get a new arena and that will mean keeping our team here for a long time.
Still find it odd that there's a belief that the NBA would fix it's Seattle fuck up, by fucking over the Portland fans in the process. And I still find it odd that you *never* hear this about the Utah Jazz, who played in an older arena, and in a smaller market.
I'm not worried about it because theres no financial incentive for the NBA to move the team out of PDX. Blazers fan support is not in the bottom of the league. NBA is going to do whatever gets them money. There's more money for them to keep the Blazers in Portland.
