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Old Posted Feb 28, 2012, 6:06 PM
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Anybody that is trying to argue that Seattle is a poor NBA city has not followed basketball for the last 50 years. Im sure the NBA and David Stern would love for this arena to be built so they can get the Hornets out of New Orleans asap and move them to Seattle.

If any thing 'black' metros do a poor job of supporting teams. New Orelans and Memphis play in empty arenas, Atlanta has always underachieved with the Hawks, and I doubt most people in Charlotte even realize the Bobcats exist. And while Im sure they are making money since they are located in DC, the Wizards have terrible fan support in recent years.

The NBA generally does better out West, which is home to the lowest percentage og black population. Portland and Salt Lake always perform well for small market teams, the Lakers and now Clippers are huge in LA, the Suns do great in Phoenix. If Seattle would have built an arena 5 years ago and had this Thunder team playing in the metro they would be top 5 or 6 in profitability in the league.

Seattle and Las Vegas are probably the top 2 markets the NBA needs to relocate teams into to have solid local fanbases and not have to worry about a franchise losing money. Hopefully they got their shit together this last collective bargaining agreement and fixed a lot of the problems they had with teams losing money, but that remains to be seen.
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