OT: Hornets could be contracted?

What would happen to the players on that team?

 

Great question. Either the team with the worse record gets first choice and so on OR Stern just lets the Lakers have CP3 and West.

 

I have to laugh at the ham-handedness of the NBA. Letting this potential contraction leak is simply a negotiating tactic with the union. It's the loss of 15 slots. And 29 teams? It's a scheduling impossibility.

Nothing is going to happen with the Hornets other than that they'll move.

 

well west is gone. hornets cut off extension talks. bye bye there, and paul is 100% gone when his deal runs out. that means you are looking at the worst team in the nba in the near future.

 

Im pretty sure we had 29 teams for several years before the hornets moved to NO and Charolotte got the Bobcats. Plus Stern mentioned contracting back to 27; having one of them ready to go right then would be a handy weapon.

I agree though that it's mostly a bluff though.

 

http://basketball.realgm.com/wireta...ng_To_Purchase_Hornets_Move_Club_To_Vancouver

 

We were discussing this on another board, and I'd love to see it. We need another NW rival.

 

There is another board?

 

damn it, beat me to it.

Having visited Vancouver many times, I would love for a city that beautiful and sport-crazed have a basketball team.

They really need to move Memphis to Seattle while we're at it and have a POR-VAN-SEA rivalry.

 

I wish!

 

sorry, couldn't help it.

I have no idea how anyone could be opposed to the Hornets leaving New Orleans for Seattle or Vancouver.

 

Great picture of Vancouver!

 

Vancouver, BC might be my favorite city I've ever been to. Not just because I can walk down the street and smoke a J.

 

One of my buddies just went there and told me about a metal bar named after the band Iron Maiden. I must go check that out. Too cool.

 

I just moved to Seattle 4 months ago from Portland. I have never been to Vancouver or even seen photographs of it, but that is an amazing photo! What a beautiful city. I am definitely going to check it out this Summer (need to get my passport renewed first). I would love for Seattle to get another team so I can watch the Blazers play up here and also so I can get some good NBA talk up here too. I just don't see it happening. No team is going to want to play in Key Arena.

 

It could have been a nice PNW rivalry between Por/Sea/Van!

 

basketball failed miserably in Vancouver already. plus with the extra taxes players have to pay, cold weather, etc, no one will want to play there.

 

Why did they fail? No fans?

 

Yes.

 

If memory serves - the lockout really killed them - and the owners of the arena wanted it for some other uses.