Good news! Also said it would be next to the Saints facility.@FletcherMackel
Dell Demps on NBA TV: if our new practice facility isn't the biggest in the NBA, it'll be the 2nd biggest and ready next year.
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Good news! Also said it would be next to the Saints facility.@FletcherMackel
Dell Demps on NBA TV: if our new practice facility isn't the biggest in the NBA, it'll be the 2nd biggest and ready next year.
Hell yea!!!!! The guys deserve it! So amped now.
Damn that was fast lol
Hornets are further entrenching themselves into the city every day, love it.
Where is this supposed to be built at tho?
Jrue dat
ALso said this was the last year we'd be at Alario. SO it should be ready by next year? Oh hells yeah!
was hoping it'd be downtown but in the end really doesn't matter as long as it's top-knotch, and clearly there's a big benefit having it adjacent to the saints facility.
earhart will shoot the players out there pretty quick.
Can't wait to go to CiCi's and watch the construction.
"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministraions so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."
— Lafcadio Hearn (Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn)
I still don't see why people care. It's not like the practice facility was going to host events or anything. It would be just another building people look at and wonder what it's like inside.
Don't seem like anyone complains about the Saints facility being on Airline so why not put the Hornets' facility there too?
I think he means why do people care whether it's downtown or on Airline.
This has nothing to do with the fans. It's the impression around the league. Benson's transformation of the Hornets into the new brand is about washing the stink of the corner store style franchise Shinn ran and replacing it with a real professional organization. New brand, new direction, new facilities. Players do notice this. Trust me, when you bring a free agent to town and can drive him by the Saints facility, let him meet Brees or whoever, let him see the spiffy new facility, it makes an impression.
Where would we take them before? To Westwego. I don't wanna go to Westwego.
"I'm not going to allow my putative owner to answer that question, this is an NBA related press conference. Paul Tagliabue and Roger Goodell have collectively sung their praises of Tom and if uh ESPN has a problem with that tell Mr. Skipper to call me at my office."
I think people are blowing my statement out of proportion. Obviously a new training facility is a must, but what difference does it make if the new one is downtown or on airline next to the saints facility. I'd rather them build the best training facility on Airline then a midrange one downtown. The cost of the land downtown would have to be much higher.
I'm going to steal this from nolasportskrewe post
distances for some nba teams from their practice facility to their prospective arenas:
lakers: 15 miles
clippers: 14-15 miles
blazers: 13-15 mile range
nola: 12 miles
sacramento: on site
golden state: 6 miles
phoenix: on site
utah: 3 miles
denver: on site
dallas: on site
san antonio: 17-22 miles
houston: 18 miles
memphis: on site
milwaukee: 7 miles
chicago: 30 miles but will move downtown
cleveland: 9 miles
new york: 28 miles
Last edited by all2neat; 10-04-2012 at 01:43 PM.
If you want to utilize and take advantage of Champions Square, you should push for a theater for preforming arts, or something that would host events year round yet not be sports related. You need to think outside of the box a little. I think our market is at its saturation point for sport teams so something to target a different crowd would help open up that area to more people than normal.
I figured it'd be next to the Saints facility, so it would be easier for Benson to work with both his teams
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