sons LOL at the N.O. haters - Hornets extend lease to keep team in N.O. through 2024

[BRHornet45]

New Orleans Hornets deal with Louisiana will have the team in the city through 2024

Nearly a year of negotiations directed at securing a new lease agreement between the state and Hornets ended in the early morning hours Friday, resulting in saving taxpayers more than $72 million, binding the team to New Orleans through at least 2024 and receiving a commitment from the NBA for another All-Star Game in the New Orleans Arena at some point during the life of the deal.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/hornets_deal_with_louisiana_wi.html

[Snake Plissken]

sweet...12 more years of shitty basketball

[BRHornet45]

sweet...12 more years of shitty basketball

this coming from a Knicks fan :rollin

[pass1st]

Son, NO has good fans, they deserve to keep the team. Unlike the Nets

[ElNono]

They just need to secure an owner and they'll be set, tbh

[BRHornet45]

Son, NO has good fans, they deserve to keep the team. Unlike the Nets

son that's the thing. some people (who are too ignorant to look up the facts) can hate on N.O. all they want, but even with N.O. being close to the smallest market in the NBA and having arguably the worst team in the NBA this season we are still more profitable and have better attendance than several other teams who are playing in much larger markets and have better teams. The Hornets have generated more revenue this season than Houston, Sacramento, New Jersey, Indiana, and Detroit and are neck and neck with Atlanta and Milwaukee.

To put that into perspective when comparing the metro area population of each team -

New Jersey/NY - 19 Million

Houston - 6 Million

Atlanta - 5 Million

Detroit - 4 Million

Sacramento - 2 Million

Indiana - 1.8 Million

Milwaukee - 1.5 Million

New Orleans - 1.1 Million

[DPG21920]

Subsidies are wrong.

[BRHornet45]

Current Attendance

Atlanta - 15,099

Milwaukee - 14,836

Sacramento - 14,716

Houston - 14,632

New Orleans - 14,626

New Jersey - 13,966

Detroit - 13,937

Indiana - 13,364


sons if any team should be ashamed (or removed) its both Detroit and Indiana. For Detroit they are one of the largest markets in the NBA and can't pull decent numbers. For Indiana they should be even more ashamed of themselves for claiming to be a "basketball state", yet every single year are constantly ranked near the bottom or at the bottom in attendance.

[DMC]

Son, NO has good fans, they deserve to keep the team. Unlike the Nets
All the non-paying fans moved to Houston after Katrina.

[lefty]

sweet...12 more years of shitty basketball

qft

[RGMCSE]

son that's the thing. some people (who are too ignorant to look up the facts) can hate on N.O. all they want, but even with N.O. being close to the smallest market in the NBA and having arguably the worst team in the NBA this season we are still more profitable and have better attendance than several other teams who are playing in much larger markets and have better teams. The Hornets have generated more revenue this season than Houston, Sacramento, New Jersey, Indiana, and Detroit and are neck and neck with Atlanta and Milwaukee.

To put that into perspective when comparing the metro area population of each team -

New Jersey/NY - 19 Million

Houston - 6 Million

Atlanta - 5 Million

Detroit - 4 Million

Sacramento - 2 Million

Indiana - 1.8 Million

Milwaukee - 1.5 Million

New Orleans - 1.1 Million


Sons you just made the same argument I make when defending my JVille Jags tbh. It's not easy repping a team thats not very popular outside the region. Keep your head up though:toast

[TE]

Son, I congratulate you on the recent development.


The next step is making the Hornets competitive.

[Pelicans78]

:cry But Seattle fans deserve a team :cry

[Pelicans78]

:cry Seattle fans :cry

[Pelicans78]

Since Seattle failed to poach the Kings and now Hornets, who's the next target? The Hawks? The Grizz?

[TE]

Current Attendance

Atlanta - 15,099

Milwaukee - 14,836

Sacramento - 14,716

Houston - 14,632

New Orleans - 14,626

New Jersey - 13,966

Detroit - 13,937

Indiana - 13,364


sons if any team should be ashamed (or removed) its both Detroit and Indiana. For Detroit they are one of the largest markets in the NBA and can't pull decent numbers. For Indiana they should be even more ashamed of themselves for claiming to be a "basketball state", yet every single year are constantly ranked near the bottom or at the bottom in attendance.

How is Indiana ranked at the bottom???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????



CROFL they have a competitive respectable playoff bound team and yet they still can't make the games? :lmao

[BRHornet45]

Since Seattle failed to poach the Kings and now Hornets, who's the next target? The Hawks? The Grizz?

son the first thing they need to do is build a real, NBA-caliber arena. Key Arena opened in 1962 and is so disgusting nowadays. It hasn't even been renovated since 1994 and it smells like shit in that place. I mean just look at this dump ...




http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Key_Arena.jpg

[lefty]

son the first thing they need to do is build a real, NBA-caliber arena. Key Arena opened in 1962 and is so disgusting nowadays. It hasn't even been renovated since 1994 and it smells like shit in that place. I mean just look at this dump ...




http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Key_Arena.jpg

I thought they opened it in 1995

[lefty]

Ooops, 1962, you are right

[BRHornet45]

How is Indiana ranked at the bottom???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????



CROFL they have a competitive respectable playoff bound team and yet they still can't make the games? :lmao

son it blows my mind that Indiana constantly gets a free pass and no one ever gives them hell about their absolutely pathetic fan support. Indiana claims to be this great "basketball state" with all of their history with the Hoosiers, Pacers, high school basketball, etc., yet they are always ranked at the bottom in NBA attendance.

The Pacers attendance rank in recent years (out of all 30 teams)

2012 - 30th

2011 - 30th

2010 - 27th

2009 - 28th

2008 - 30th

2007 - 28th

[Pelicans78]

Pacers had great support until the whole Artest mess. They had great fans during the Reggie Miller years. But the collapse of the Artest/O'Neal teams, plus with the Brawl in Detroit really turned off the fans for years. Also, they became fair weather Colts fans. The funny thing is before Peyton was drafted, the fans only cared about the Pacers and didn't care much for the Colts. Peyton changed that and the city became a football town in just a few years.