duncan228
02-17-2010, 12:29 PM
Mark Cuban Considering Playing Mavericks Games in Cowboys Stadium (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=tsn-markcubanconsidering&prov=tsn&type=lgns)
SportingNews
Sunday’s All-Star Game was a huge success in Dallas, where the spectacle and fun of the event triumphed over poor views for the basketball-record 108,713 fans in the Cowboys Stadium crowd. It went so well, in fact, that Mark Cuban thinks it could work for the Mavericks (http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=4919768). ESPNDallas.com’s Tim MacMahon has more:
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Tuesday night that he is considering the idea of playing an occasional home game in the $1.2 billion stadium.
"There would be a lot of strategic reasons, in addition to potentially economic reasons, to play a game over there," Cuban said before the Mavericks’ road game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. "You could bring in twice as many fans, so economically it’d probably work out, and it’d be a unique attraction for people who wanted to come play for the Mavs."
Whoa, slow down Mark. There’s a lot to be said for playing a game in the stadium, especially if you’re able to get 50,000+ fans on your side for a game. That’s a homecourt advantage unlike any other.
But those games are likely to be playoff games or important regular season tilts, the kinds of games you want your team to be prepared for in the best way possible. Playing the game in a new stadium would involve asking the Mavs to change their routines and introduce new headaches just as the team needed normalcy more than ever. The extra fans are a positive factor for noise levels and the pocketbook, but I’m not sure they outweigh the importance of putting a playoff team in the most comfortable position possible.
As Cuban says, though, there are a lot of logistics left to work out before this becomes a reality. The afterglow of Sunday may dim by the time discussions get serious.
SportingNews
Sunday’s All-Star Game was a huge success in Dallas, where the spectacle and fun of the event triumphed over poor views for the basketball-record 108,713 fans in the Cowboys Stadium crowd. It went so well, in fact, that Mark Cuban thinks it could work for the Mavericks (http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=4919768). ESPNDallas.com’s Tim MacMahon has more:
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Tuesday night that he is considering the idea of playing an occasional home game in the $1.2 billion stadium.
"There would be a lot of strategic reasons, in addition to potentially economic reasons, to play a game over there," Cuban said before the Mavericks’ road game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. "You could bring in twice as many fans, so economically it’d probably work out, and it’d be a unique attraction for people who wanted to come play for the Mavs."
Whoa, slow down Mark. There’s a lot to be said for playing a game in the stadium, especially if you’re able to get 50,000+ fans on your side for a game. That’s a homecourt advantage unlike any other.
But those games are likely to be playoff games or important regular season tilts, the kinds of games you want your team to be prepared for in the best way possible. Playing the game in a new stadium would involve asking the Mavs to change their routines and introduce new headaches just as the team needed normalcy more than ever. The extra fans are a positive factor for noise levels and the pocketbook, but I’m not sure they outweigh the importance of putting a playoff team in the most comfortable position possible.
As Cuban says, though, there are a lot of logistics left to work out before this becomes a reality. The afterglow of Sunday may dim by the time discussions get serious.