The small markets are doomed

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  1. BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94

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    Nope it is not but it is a novelty city in a state that helps nba players retain lots of money, and they have a great franchise run by a great gm and imo the best coach ever but idk how much longer their success will last.
     
    BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94, Jul 4, 2017
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    It's not always about the market it's more about the location.
     
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    Unless you have somebody like Pop or Lebron in your corner, small market teams are always going to have it rough. It sure is a good thing we maxed out Dame. He might hold that against us. It's obvious that would have helped Utah if they had offered him early.
     
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    I don't really think market size matters as much as it used to. Today it's more about destinations.

    KD left to win
    Hayward left to have a better chance to win
    LA left because it's closer to home, and he thought they could win.

    Lebron, Bosh both left to win
    Melo will leave NY for Cleveland or Houston, to win

    Not many players going to the Lakers cause they sucked. PG nay go cause it's home, and Magic can show they will turn it around.
     
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    I've never understood why small markets get such a bad rap. Is it the lack of night-life or something? Not enough titty bars and clubs?
     
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    Not it on the titty bars. Portland has that covered.
     
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    It's white people
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    They do ruin most things. "And, I know, cause I'm one".
     
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    Had this talk with my neighbors tonight.

    Y'all had to ruin it all for the rest of us.
     
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    Isnt Cleveland Cavs a small market? Well there you go. They can compete. In the NFL isn't the Packers?
     
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    Yeah. Last time I checked Green Bay wasn't exactly the height of appeal. I think it has to do with the system of rules and checks and balances in the league. Right now the NBA is just one fly by night place.
     
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    Just wait. It's possible Westbrook AND PG could leave for the Lakers next season. OKC could get jilted out of franchise players twice in 2 years. Utah will be hard pressed to replace Hayward with anything close to him. Same with OKC replacing Durant. Portland hasn't had a PF since Aldridge left either. Yet larger market teams if they are any good at all can just suck them up seemingly time after time.

    It sucks for small market fans but it isn't anything the owners or GMs can really do anything about. There really should be compensatory picks like in baseball at the very least.
     
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    Market size and demographic is completely irrelevant at this point in time. In the old days a $100k animal endoresrment from a local company was a big deal because guys were making $1mil now days the regular annual contract is so high the local endorsement deals don't meen shit except to the end of the bench guys. At this point nobody is flocking to LA, Dallas, New York, Chicago , San Francisco etc. due to market size it's all about success on the floor.

    The biggest evidence is Brooklyn and New York which is the largest market I. The US and they can't sign shit...we are talking about the Mecca of basketball and what do they have in terms of free agents?

    Golden State and San Antonio have been the 2 largest draws to free agents of late but their draw is their success which is really home grown for both franchises.. not to sound too cliche but the old adage of "if you build it they will come" has more influence than the size of the market.
     
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    They have LeBron James and three professional sports teams, that's not a small market imo
     
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    Absolutely. If they don't extend with you send them packing. Get what you can and get out.
     
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    I don't see how the CBA is to blame. The players should have the right to choose to go wherever they want. They spent already 8 years on one team, so they earned the right to do what they want. The CBA lets the teams owing them offer more money, but it cannot force them to stay on the same franchise for their entire career.
     
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    Hayward was their legit core guy. Now he is in Boston enjoying seafood at the No Name restaurant on the harbor. Utah has a weird segmented population to draw fans from. I never heard of a rap artist sourcing from there.
     
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    Are we truly doomed? 76146ed26d255935a8a855943f8d957a.jpg NBA Artist's rendering of Portland..
     
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    Yeah, in its current shape you actually get a great chance to keep the player you drafted for 6-8 years. Even if they want to move after 4 years, you are allowed to match the offer they got from somewhere else (unless they stay another year on QO and then move a year later as UFA as opposed to RFA, but that doesn't make sense financially for them at all).
     
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    Westbrook won't leave $60M or so he will earn extra at Oklahoma by moving to Lakers.
     
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