will there be an NBA franchise in Las Vegas in 1999 then-mayor
Oscar Goodman all went to David Stern in New York I believe their offices
are in Manhattan and on that hand is huge but at least I think clearly has
offices are in many you don't think they're in Staten Island Rick
it is is that where they are no other mahi mahi
I mean look II tried going one out in New York I tried going out there and I
saw the NBA offices in Queens
they could yes oh okay I maybe they're up your ass
so I the MGM Resorts are trying to construct
and have an operational rena by 2016 here's a David Stern had to say on the
whole issue who will retire
February 1st every 30 years a given sort of all the references you see about Las
Vegas in Sin City
we've always believed that gambling is very legal business regulated carefully
Nevada
that this is a huge entertainment destination and this is a place that we
could
that we should embrace in Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center the Lakers in
the Jazz I believe they have a picture Kareem abdul-jabbar money
had a fantastic game I believe
a secure the scoring title right there the Thomas & Mack Center
that was in nineteen eighty-four the Jazz also played 10 games there that
year the 2007 all-star game is there that's the only time in an NBA city
a hosted the all-star game look at that sky ok man it was an unfair
he 744 any friggin mastered at shot it's ridiculous
he shooting down if how how big his wingspan i mean it's unbelievable what's
the point in even jumping in defending
I don't know they teach you to get a shot nigga get a hand in their face 10
my god it's ridiculous so good so the Thomas & Mack Center
seats I do know how many want to get them into bigger have been there
nineteen thousand dollars 19 5:52 according to a quick Google search
NBC Sports however says that it's not a good fit obviously MGM is trying to
build the whole building arena
it might be old but it's it's nineteen thousand five hundred fifty-two people
which is more than it but that's irrelevant to an arena now it's gotta
have luxury suites understood to and I was the argument that it's a small
seating capacity which my opinion is not
and they know luxury boxes which I totally understand so
II for the Thomas & Mack Center their 11th by capacity
so it could work as a and interim place it's ok for
biggest franchise that legal you would like a more this season why not a few
until until the the MGM arena that they're trying to build is when you
arrive in a place like Las Vegas when you make a I would say
and I'm not a sports marketer so paramount know what the fuck I'm talking
about ok and I imagine that when you show but a place like Las Vegas
and you want to make an entrance where there is so much competing entertainment
like if they had built the theater for Selene Dion
that they built for in Vegas I don't think she'd gone
and played at the sands for a couple years while they got there ready
like you make an entrance in Vegas and you make an entrance
where you make an impact and not like I hear we're here where for a couple years
Oreo 3448 but in two years we're hoping to read and get serious
my hunch is they want to arrive in Vegas ready to go so I don't even know that
play one season there but I certainly wouldn't waste Island two or three
so obviously they want to try to attract as much attention to this new arena I
mean if you
again you are not a sports marketer let's say you're developing the arena
what exactly would you put in there to grab people's attention
I mean he's gonna make it it's going to be an event it's got to be the head
literally has to be
yeah betting stations that you can go to a house I logged on the log into any
gambling there and I don't think in the end
there's an arena at the MGM which they believe where the pac-12
held their tournament this year and a buncha other tournaments for a bagel a
lot
up I'm gone he was at the MGM I thought was at the Thomas & Mack
I don't think the pac-12 thousand Mac I think it was a day I think it was at the
MGM
but I I might be wrong I don't know but and Lakers and Clippers play preseason
games there as well yeah
I don't really want to have a in in a casino but I don't know how separate
that arena is from the casino
but anyway I would build a nice arena and maybe it's in a casino the one by
certainly
you now have a gambling in a I find incredibly hard to believe that they
would pass that
but they're clearly want to do business in Vegas is they put the all-star game
that was the NBA's way of saying okay nevermind our previous stance about we
don't want anything to do with me is is over and yeah
it just do with Stoli logically I mean if I we're gonna expand the NBA by two
teams right now assuming you're not gonna move a team now that the Kings are
gonna stay here
you put a team in Seattle back in Seattle and you put a team anybody
minner
in the in in Vegas yeah nunu done with
my a question for you that is which one will come first
because they've been talking about seattle like crazy for you will Seccombe
ends are you might as well expand by two when you expand it's very difficult was
difficult to heaven
an even number of teams and your divisions are men so they're waiting
till 2016 it appears
to put a team back in Seattle that maybe and let somebody else moves first I
don't know what the situation is with teams
get ready to move seems like everybody secure I was the case for the best but
they're not the only team in some degree of
financial distress with the stadium but on meh
well that's the thing is if she ever gets that arena built if they really did
she ever goes and does what they say they're gonna do now is billed the arena
without the team some tea more comments to attract
you know nope and see I should never let CEO me that is a stick to email column
City it's amazing how much fans on CL nothing easy
hate David Stern yeah every video we done about Sacramento its always shifted
the Commerce this
the conversation in the comments as always shifted I wanted the games to
move I i mean nothing in Sacramento but they still the team in the first place
and so I don't care if they lose the team I'll Seattle should never lost
so the Baltimore Colts moved you up you obviously felt bad for another Baltimore
to get a tailback I wouldn't care fickle so than the Apple sick to guide move
normal Los Angeles tomorrow for up to a
the Colts well not the Jaguars jet workout they got their team
authentically
originally so you know mean they're irrelevant the jailers but I'd still I
move the cold
grow