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Is it time for the NBA to expand?

Wes Mantooth said:
Because the cap barely moved. And the same will basically be happening next year.

As soon as you bring two new teams into the fold, some of these teams will become even less competitive.
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Maybe, or maybe the new teams who will be brought in will be smarter/better managed than some of the current teams and add to the competitive depth.
 
♪alt13 said:
Dude you just barely complained about the local media regurgitating JF content and them not giving you any credit. Yes I read that same article about this on SLC dunk.

To the point no I don't think that they will. No American city makes long term financial sense for expansion. They would be splitting tv revenue 32 ways instead of 30. With the finals ratings being the highest ever this year and the NBA locked into a 10 year TV deal. It just doesn't make sense to expand.

Europe would make some sense longterm as it is opening up a huge new market but it would be a gamble and big change. They would probably need 6 teams to make it work (100+ new players), cut out of conference games to 1, increase the number of in division games, extend the length of the season, play many EC playoff games in the afternoon on the weekend, and hope that Europe starts supporting the NBA on a similar level to Americans. So that's probably not happening either.

Seattle may get the sonics back but it will be through relocation if it happens. My guess for the current Top candidates would be Hawks, Pellies, Nuggets.
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I don't read slc dunk so if the did something like this before I am sorry I didn't know

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Oh add to the expansion the NBA adopt a new entry program. High school seniors have 3 options

Enter the NBA or go to college. If the go to college they have to stay there 2 years

Of the can go the gleague route and they play there for 1 year then they become draft elligable. This would also apply for undrafted high school seniors.

So a high school senior declares for the nba draft but isn't drafted they can go-to the gleague and become draft elligable the following year. After that they become ufa

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NBA should go to 50 teams and 3-on-3. I'm not even joking.
 
And if you think "stars" dominate the NBA already, then holy **** you would be amazed at how much they would dominate 3-on-3.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
And if you think "stars" dominate the NBA already, then holy **** you would be amazed at how much they would dominate 3-on-3.
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Yeah, all you ****s talking about stars is what got me on this idea a few years ago.

I just think you guys are failing to understand how awesomely alpha-fied it would be.

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Yeah, let's expand to Mexico City too, Cy. Genius. The NFL had an insane amount of men with automatic weapons at the NFL game there last year. I'm sure 41 games there would go swimmingly. And travel would be simply be great for the players. Moron.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Yeah, let's expand to Mexico City too, Cy. Genius. The NFL had an insane amount of men with automatic weapons at the NFL game there last year. I'm sure 41 games there would go swimmingly. And travel would be simply be great for the players. Moron.
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Mexico City isn't that far away from most NBA cities.....

Miami is a NBA team and it's much further away from most NBA cities than Mexico City is.

9 million people (giant market waiting to be taken advantage of) live in Mexico City (at least). It's not one giant ghetto like your ignorant *** thinks.

"Omg the country isnt mostly white it must be dangerous"
 
Mexico City becomes part of the West and you move Minneapolis to the East (that is really the most inconvenient NBA location currently in terms of travel, and it's one of the worst markets) and I think travel becomes easier.

Minneapolis is closer to NBA cities like Milwaukee, Indianapolois, Detroit, and Chicago than it is anything out West.

You also add Seattle and move Memphis to the East.

I think that brings together shorter travel distances on average.
 
I've heard a lot of talk of Mexico City being a market the NBA wants to get in on, but likely on the second round of expansion, and not this next one.

Mexico City market is nearly as large as new York, like 30 million people. But the infrastructure is just not ready.

It's not that far, but travelling from the airport to the arena takes hours.
 
b_line said:
I've heard a lot of talk of Mexico City being a market the NBA wants to get in on, but likely on the second round of expansion, and not this next one.

Mexico City market is nearly as large as new York, like 30 million people. But the infrastructure is just not ready.

It's not that far, but travelling from the airport to the arena takes hours.
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Are there no smaller airports by the arena?

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Saint Cy of JFC said:
You ever played basketball? 3-on-3 is boring.
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I would much rather play 1/2 court three on three. Unless its well organized full court turns into garbage basketball. I have no interest in jogging up and down the court. I would rather actually do the fun part.

I definitely prefer watching full court 5 on 5 basketball though.
 
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