Not sure i would consider fans following a good team in their area Band Wagon fans. If the fans are from the San Francisco area i would assume they would be considered local right?
I mean even more than that. Are Beaverton area people allowed to follow the Blazers? Gresham? How about Eugene? Too far?
Those guys got renewed interest only after they won their first cship. When they were mediocre at best they weren't attending an/or watching as much. Winning breeds fans, its when the team becomes average or less that you find out who the real fans of the team is.
That same ranking keeps getting posted on this board (by you? I forgot), without any caveat from you that it ranks population within TV station coverage (= TV revenue paid to teams, and indirectly, sponsorship revenue paid to a few superstars), not population within the drivable metropolitan area (= ticket revenue). It's useless in this thread's context--ranking each city's reputation among players in other cities who are considering moving to other teams.
The Spurs are a smaller market than the Blazers? Interesting that Dallas and Houston are in the top 10 and San Antonio is 28. I guess they are a good deal larger cities though.
Houston is a jealous braggart, but San Francisco + San Jose makes Houston only 8th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas
But those Two had "A LOT" of quality around them (Wade, Bosh,Irving,Love) to name a few. Dame is starting to get some quality additions around him. Let's see how the future plays out.
When Adleman and team were rolling and successful they attracted a few FA's. No super stars but decent players.
I would not call it the Bill Walton Curse. I would call it the Blazers curse because it started with Geoff Petrie Walton was second in line third if you count Lloyd Neal but he came to the Blazers like that like Sabonis did.
...I always chose Walton as the name of the curse because he was the most outspoken and already "out there", even for the paranormal world!
Chris Bosh said that he wasted many hours of his life in customs\boarder checks + it's being far from home + i think taxes are pretty harsh there.
As soon as he started broadcasting. He curses our auditory senses. "Horrible,,,just Horrible" Only Dick Vitale is equally worse.
Walton as a broadcaster seems to be pretty polarizing. I kind of like him, many times my entertainment is trying to figure out what in the workd he’s talking about and not the basketball game, and I see why the dislike is there.
