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sweet...12 more years of ty basketball
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.s...isiana_wi.html
sweet...12 more years of ty basketball
this coming from a Knicks fan
Son, NO has good fans, they deserve to keep the team. Unlike the Nets
They just need to secure an owner and they'll be set, tbh
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
Subsidies are wrong.
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.
All the non-paying fans moved to Houston after Katrina.
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
Son, I congratulate you on the recent development.
The next step is making the Hornets compe ive.
But Seattle fans deserve a team
Since Seattle failed to poach the Kings and now Hornets, who's the next target? The Hawks? The Grizz?
How is Indiana ranked at the bottom???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????
CROFL they have a compe ive respectable playoff bound team and yet they still can't make the games?
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 in that place. I mean just look at this dump ...
I thought they opened it in 1995son 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 in that place. I mean just look at this dump ...
Ooops, 1962, you are right
son it blows my mind that Indiana constantly gets a free pass and no one ever gives them 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.How is Indiana ranked at the bottom???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????
CROFL they have a compe ive respectable playoff bound team and yet they still can't make the games?
The Pacers attendance rank in recent years (out of all 30 teams)
2012 - 30th
2011 - 30th
2010 - 27th
2009 - 28th
2008 - 30th
2007 - 28th
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.
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