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Outside of maybe Portland and Dallas and maybe a dysfunctional Houston if they collapse in the playoffs again we can not beat any of those teams in a 7 game series.
You are way overvaluing our team and undervaluing others. Like I said offseason optimism at its finest.
Zero chance. How many star NBA free agents signed with small market teams in the last 20 years? Lebron going home excluded. How many stars under contract in small markets have been able to entice free agents to join them in a small market? Lebron couldn't get anyone to go go Cleveland his first time around. The revenues of the NBA off the court are driven by large markets and the opportunities those markets possess. Chris Paul got no one to New Orleans. Carmelo go no one to Denver. Kevin Love go no one to Minnesota. The list goes on and on and on. It's ok to dream, just realize it's just a dream.
Maybe the old NBA. But it's kind of hard to say, "Ignore the most glaring and obvious example that completely shatters my argument".
Love is already on record as saying he would sign a long term deal with Cleveland just to play with LBJ. Dwight chose less money to go to Houston over the huge market of LA. It's not unheard of anymore.
I'm not even talking about KD to NO. Buts it's obvious,Times are changing in the NBA.
According to http://nbahoopsonline.com/generalinf...stmarkets.html
The 15 smallest NBA cities - Listed by television market, out of 210 total areas (Number of Television Homes):
1. Memphis, Tennessee (658,250)
2. New Orleans, Louisiana (675,760) - Ryan Anderson (signed first, was eventually signed/traded)
3. San Antonio, Texas (748,950)
4. Salt Lake City, Utah (800,000)
5. Milwaukee, Wisconsin (886,770)
6. Charlotte, North Carolina (1,004,440) - Lance Stephenson (quasi-star), Al Jefferson
7. Indianapolis, Indiana (1,053,020) - David West (allstar)
8. Portland, Oregon (1,086,900)
9. Orlando, Florida (1,303,150)
10. Sacramento, California (1,315,030)
11. Denver, Colorado (1,401,760)
12. Miami, Florida (1,496,810)
13. Cleveland, Ohio (1,556,670) - Andrew Bynum (when he was still considered a great big man)
14. Phoenix, Arizona (1,596,950) - Steve Nash, Goran Dragic (resigned after contract was up with Houston)
15. Minneapolis, Minnesota (1,665,540)
That's just some of them.
No more research for me. It's lunch time.
Genius, you have to go my MSA not city population. Phoenix, 5 million, Miami 5 million. The only star on that list is Nash. And he was that not big a star when he left Dallas for Phoenix. Even so, Phoenix is not a small market. This is the worst list i've ever seen. It's so bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tistical_Areas
Miami, 5.8 million MSA, # 8 in the USA.
Specifically it says
so it's combining 3 cities.Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area
Also, whenever someone discusses the market size of an NBA team they are referencing the television market and not referencing Wikipedia.
Thanks for the compliment.
Are the games only televised in the city of Miami???? NO!!!! they are televised in the region, the MSA. Are Pelicans games only in Orleans Parish, no. The television market extends outside the city limits. WOW
You're talking to yourself now?
No on here said Miami was a small market, he just copy and pasted something that was on a website. It's a little bit old info but no one said anything to contrary of your argument. What's the deal? There's also a way to make any point you want without acting like a 15 year old girl who's PMSing.
The info may have been slightly old but still relates to the order of small market teams.
I was looking for examples of small market teams that had signed "star" players in the last 20 years. Got through the last 3 years and remembered Nash, then got bored and took my lunch break.
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