http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2614550 The NBA should only be in the USA, Canada and possibly Mexico. I don't think it's very possible for a European team and if he makes it happen I will never forgive him for exporting our game.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Oct 5 2006, 09:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The NBA should only be in the USA, Canada and possibly Mexico. I don't think it's very possible for a European team and if he makes it happen I will never forgive him for exporting our game.</div>*co-signs*
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Oct 6 2006, 12:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2614550 The NBA should only be in the USA, Canada and possibly Mexico. I don't think it's very possible for a European team and if he makes it happen I will never forgive him for exporting our game.</div>I completely agree. If he does this I am guna join Nasser's Fan Club
I don't see a big problem with having 1 or 2 teams out of our part of the world, especially if it gets people to hate Stern.
I just don't see players, coaches, and owners agreeing to this. I know if I owned an American based team, I wouldn't want to be shelling out the cash to send my club over the Atlantic to play a few games and then come back. Players wouldnt want to live over there either imo. Another thing to mention would be the Time Zones. It would totally screw up players and coaches with getting enough sleep. No way this should EVER happen. I'd just expand the game throught out North America but not even sure I'd even put one in Mexico either.
I agree with everything you said PJ except for players not wanting to live there. Europe is a great place to be, but yeah it doesen't make much sense with the time zones and the money that would have to be spent. I don't mind spreading out to other countries but yeah that wouldn't be so good.Edit: One more thing I want to say before hitting the hay...I think the NBA has enough teams. I don't really care if it's Europe, New York or Ghana, I don't see a need to add more. I think the talent is spread out pretty nicely right now.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I think the NBA has enough teams. I don't really care if it's Europe, New York or Ghana, I don't see a need to add more. I think the talent is spread out pretty nicely right now.</div>IF they ever had this, then there are two things that would have to happen for it to be OK (in my book, at least).1. They would have to have a supersonic jet every time. Have you thought about how long (and how much) it would take to ferry players back and forth? 12 hours, maybe. That's a lot of resting time, or practice time, or whatever.2. There would have to be a lot new, very good players from a new region. China maybe, or Africa, or some unexplored boundary. As ASU said, the talent level is fine. 5 more teams within the next 5 years woudl probably result in a dilution of the talent pool.
The NBA ALREADY has too many teams. Charlotte was the last straw for me. Stern should just give it a rest right now. And I highly doubt teams will pay the cost of sending their players overseas for games.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Oct 6 2006, 12:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2614550 The NBA should only be in the USA, Canada and possibly Mexico. I don't think it's very possible for a European team and if he makes it happen I will never forgive him for exporting our game.</div>With the moves he has already made, this would be the final straw. There is no way a team could go to Europe for a game, and come home and play two days later, or whatever the scenario is.
How the hell would teams travel to and from Europe in 1-2 days and be able to play? This would not work out because Europe is too far away. David Stern is an idiot for even considering this.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The NBA ALREADY has too many teams. Charlotte was the last straw for me.</div> I don't think Charlotte was a bad add at all. The move helped even up the conferences with 15 each. On European teams, the only issue is definately the flight/hours. That alone makes it a bad decision to extend the NBA to overseas. But I don't agree with allowing NBA in Mexico as BCB stated. I don't think they have the means to even accomadate a franchise.
why don't they just leave it how it is? if they're going to add teams they should just add two more US teams from cities that has sports fans that deserve it to even off the conferences 16-16.. it would make a lot more sense than putting in a european divisionI think all the problems with this have already been listed
It wouldn't work because teams would have to actually travel to those places and then get back to the US the next day in time for there other games unless the NBA changed the usual NBA Calender.
I don't know. The way I read it, it sounded like more of an 'NFL Europe' venture. Just to spread the sport around, ya know.
No, those two things are totally different. NFL Europe teams don't play together with the actual NFl teams.In this proposal, the Europe teams would join the NBA. Another thing wrong with ito you think NBA players would want to sign on with the Europe teams? No. Europe teams would consist of mostly European players, and their style of play would be totally different from the rest of the NBA. All the Europe teams would get maybe 15-20 wins in a season. Combine that with the travel issues, and this just wouldnt work out.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Stern: Expansion In Europe Unlikely7th October, 2006 - 5:20 amArizona Republic - A day after listening to Real Madrid initially propose the possibility of a future five-team European division, NBA Commissioner David Stern repeated that the scenario is doubtful.Europe does not have NBA-type arenas besides the one in which the Suns will play in Cologne, Germany, next week and there is a question about whether finding investors for $400 million-plus teams would be a problem."The one thing you will find is that we at the NBA are very polite," said Stern, who sat in the front row next to Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver for Friday's game. "If someone wants to take a meeting, we'll take a meeting. And if they want to make a proposal, we will listen to their proposal. So we'll see." [READ]</div> Thats good.
If the NBA wanted to expand...let's try and keep it in this hemisphere. I wouldn't be opposed to a team in Mexico or Puerto Rico even, good to hear that Stern wasn't really considering it all that much.However, I'm very much in favor of teams playing some preseason games or exhibitions in Europe. Considering that the NBA takes the best players from Europe, it kind of seems like a nice thing to do...
