Well, Miami is a mid-market city, and so are San Antonio and Dallas. They seem to be doing OK.
Sandra
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Well, Miami is a mid-market city, and so are San Antonio and Dallas. They seem to be doing OK.
Sandra
If the current trend continues, it won't.
The Tim Duncan's, Manu Ginobli's and Dirk Nowitzki's of the world will retire and the big named players will want to take the easy way out and team-up and play on either Boston, NY, LA, Chicago or Miami teams and that's it.
In the long haul, Boston doesn't belong on that list. It is only temporarily a desirable destination because Kevin McHale helped his old franchise by giving them Kevin Garnett. Without the championship nucleus they have, Boston isn't a city that young black basketball players want to call home. Free agents weren't flocking to the team when it was led by Reggie Lewis, or even by Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce.
Notice that Shaq, Jermaine O'Neil and Delonte West were never rumored to going to San Antonio or Dallas before they wound up in Boston. They can keep their franchise players who have played their whole careers there, but they are not and never will be magnets for complimentary players.
EVERYONE has the same amount in their salary cap. You cannot blame the NYs, LAs and Chicagos of the world if another team does not know the salary cap rules and how to run them. Yeah, ANY team runs the risk of mortgaging the entire franchise future...but their are times when you gotta take a risk.
Money doesn't seem to be the #1 factor anymore. Players teaming up and playing on "glamor cities" is taking higher priority. I don't think the Commissioner could've ever foreseen this, but if the trend continues, this could be BIG trouble for the NBA.
Nothing new there. Ever hear of Kareem Abdul Jabbar? He served his time in Milwaukee and then jumped to the L.A. Lakers, way back in the '70s. And it is all about the money. Endorsements can multiply your salary 10-fold, and your visibility is much higher in the L.A. and N.Y. markets.
So true. Nothing has changed. Detroit has won championships, as have San Antonio, Miami and Houston. Orlando, Cleveland, Dallas, Indiana and Utah have come thisclose.
The taxes in the big cities offset the additional income anyway. At least that's what I was told.
Sandra
There is cohesiveness in Miami...there is a 9 game winning streak, they have beaten 2 teams ABOVE .500 in the last week and 3 teams with a .500 on the road.
Interesting that there is very little "no cohesiveness", "they won't get along" and "not enough basketballs to go around" talk lately....
Interesting that there is very little "no cohesiveness", "they won't get along" and "not enough basketballs to go around" talk lately....
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Which is great because that Christmas Day game against the Lakers is looking more attactive by the second.....
There is cohesiveness in Miami...there is a 9 game winning streak, they have beaten 2 teams ABOVE .500 in the last week and 3 teams with a .500 on the road.
Interesting that there is very little "no cohesiveness", "they won't get along" and "not enough basketballs to go around" talk lately....
That will come back when they lose again.
Sandra
There is cohesiveness in Miami...there is a 9 game winning streak, they have beaten 2 teams ABOVE .500 in the last week and 3 teams with a .500 on the road.
Interesting that there is very little "no cohesiveness", "they won't get along" and "not enough basketballs to go around" talk lately....
You mean ESPN's 15 minute piece on LeBron "bumping" into Spoelstra's shoulder was overblown and all about nothing? LOL!
It's all about the playoffs anyway...the regular season doesn't matter.
Sandra
It really is....but apparently you guys DESPERATELY are in HEAT Hate withdrawls.....
:haha:haha
The Staples will be THUMPING! I will be in Cali, but in OAKLAND.....tickets to the Raiders-Colts as a christmas present from the wife the day after....
...sounds like nobody is changing their like or dislike for the Heat..just acknowledging what you've been saying all along...that the regular season is irrelevant, the playoffs are all that matters. Or does the regular season all of a sudden matter because the Heat are winning?
Sandra
