Not Everyone in the media is bashing us

I found some media love, The Warriors&NBA on TNT sideline reporter

New Orleans is actually one of my top 5 NBA cities... can’t wait for the TV games there!!!

— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) May 15, 2019

I would LOVE to hear all your conspiracy theories about how the NBA rigged this for New Orleans and Memphis to go 1-2 in the draft rather than two of its seminal franchises.

— David Aldridge (@davidaldridgedc) May 15, 2019

Live look at Smoothie King Center: https://t.co/FotkuuWBcH

— David Aldridge (@davidaldridgedc) May 15, 2019

This is one of your worst ever series of conspiracy theories, Tinfoil NBA Twitter. Do better.

— David Aldridge (@davidaldridgedc) May 15, 2019

I'm assuming he is endorsing us

if black women from new orleans aren't no. 1, this survey is invalid.

*checks*

this survey is invalid. https://t.co/qu4OrTcCx2

— bomani (@bomani_jones) May 14, 2019

A Boston accent wrote that report.

The Boston is accent is the most absolute worst.

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The Boston is accent is the most absolute worst.

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I don't know if it's just cause I'm from England. Maybe in America, that god-awful butchering of vowels is sexy? Who knows.

Zion Zion Zion Zion Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooon.

Vowels sound good.

ESPN is not very happy about this. I'd avoid that spot even harder.

And I'd marry Rosalyn. That is a beautiful beautiful woman.

Mardi Gras in May!

— stan verrett (@stanverrett) May 15, 2019

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Mardi Gras in May!

— stan verrett (@stanverrett) May 15, 2019

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Stan be reppin the N.O hard at ESPN. He’s that dude even though he went to St Aug.

But why are they acting like New Orleans just got a franchise? They've all had to cover basketball games here before. Franchise even won the draft lottery not that long ago.

Wierd.

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Bwustahn

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Mardi Gras in May!

— stan verrett (@stanverrett) May 15, 2019

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I saw Stan @LAX once. On a flight to MSY. I had my Saints hat on he came behind me and yelled "Who Dat" we a quick laugh about it. He seems like a really cool guy.

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Stan be reppin the N.O hard at ESPN. He’s that dude even though he went to St Aug.

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He went to St. Aug? That's crazy I went there and never knew.

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He went to St. Aug? That's crazy I went there and never knew.

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Yeah

https://www.google.com/search?q=stan...hrome&ie=UTF-8

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The National media is mad mad right now. It’s beautiful.

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The National media is mad mad right now. It’s beautiful.

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Burn baby burn lol

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They'll be even more mad when the Bucks and Pelicans are battling it out for titles for the next decade.

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SAS meltdown is glorious. Something tells me the Durant injury is worse than thought.

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I saw Stan @LAX once. On a flight to MSY. I had my Saints hat on he came behind me and yelled "Who Dat" we a quick laugh about it. He seems like a really cool guy.

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That's a cool story. Easy for media guys to have a big head. Nice to hear he's a good one.

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No doubt. And if Leonard stays in Toronto, and if Kyrie leaves Boston things will only get better.

BTW, WTH does “big market” mean anyway? When people say “player X needs to go to a “big market”” they are only ever eluding to LA or NY, but Chicago, Houston, Philly, Phx, SA, Dallas, are those not all “big markets”? What qualifies as a “big market”?

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No doubt. And if Leonard stays in Toronto, and if Kyrie leaves Boston things will only get better.

BTW, WTH does “big market” mean anyway? When people say “player X needs to go to a “big market”” they are only ever eluding to LA or NY, but Chicago, Houston, Philly, Phx, SA, Dallas, are those not all “big markets”? What qualifies as a “big market”?

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no what I love is this the nba needs the laker or nyk to be great like what does that even mean? bc the nba is in its greatest era and it's ruled by mostly small markets

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no what I love is this the nba needs the laker or nyk to be great like what does that even mean? bc the nba is in its greatest era and it's ruled by mostly small markets

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I must say- If AD was mature enough to eat crow (I don't think he is). How on Gods green earth could he NOT think that N.O. is ideal ? We've established Jrue & eventually Z as the Alpha's.
Plus, we can offer him 48 mill per. Plus, NY & LA are going to CRUSH HIM IN TAXES.

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No doubt. And if Leonard stays in Toronto, and if Kyrie leaves Boston things will only get better.

BTW, WTH does “big market” mean anyway? When people say “player X needs to go to a “big market”” they are only ever eluding to LA or NY, but Chicago, Houston, Philly, Phx, SA, Dallas, are those not all “big markets”? What qualifies as a “big market”?

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They mean a team with basketball history. New Orleans issue here is it's a football town + small in terms of economy. If you replaced football town with basketball town, it'd be fine. In this case, what's triggering the hate is that you never want to see a superstar go to a team that has botched superstars before. We've had two in the last 10 or so years with CP3 and AD. They both wanted to leave. So no one wants this for Zion.

It's now David Griffin's job to turn this around. Prior to Sean Payton, same thing with the Saints. We weren't even considered a football town then because we struggled to sell out games. We started winning and now we're in the top 5 or so cities when you think of a football town.

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I must say- If AD was mature enough to eat crow (I don't think he is). How on Gods green earth could he NOT think that N.O. is ideal ? We've established Jrue & eventually Z as the Alpha's.
Plus, we can offer him 48 mill per. Plus, NY & LA are going to CRUSH HIM IN TAXES.

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No one cares about taxes. The quality of life in those cities more than make up for that piece. AD's mentally moved on, so it's tough.

And I'd venture to say the bigger reason he's still wanting to leave is because of the options that have been thrown out there. He's either headed to LA with LeBron, NY with Durant, or Boston with Kyrie. If the Pelicans leak something like "we really like the timberwolves deal with KAT" he'll be happy to return to NOLA like a little fat kid on the first day of king cake season.

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No one cares about taxes. The quality of life in those cities more than make up for that piece. AD's mentally moved on, so it's tough.

And I'd venture to say the bigger reason he's still wanting to leave is because of the options that have been thrown out there. He's either headed to LA with LeBron, NY with Durant, or Boston with Kyrie. If the Pelicans leak something like "we really like the timberwolves deal with KAT" he'll be happy to return to NOLA like a little fat kid on the first day of king cake season.

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No one cares about taxes is as close to absurd as you can get.
For every 1 million Dollars AD would make here, it would cost AD 100,000 bucks off the top in LA.
So 1) we can offer AD 70 mill more than anyone else.
2) If LA could offer the same 48,000,000. It would be a 4,800,000 dollar haircut IMMEDIATELY.
3) This is not counting Real Estate taxes, Road Taxes & on and on.
4) How is quality of life better in NY and LA ? That is proposterous.

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No one cares about taxes is as close to absurd as you can get.
For every 1 million Dollars AD would make here, it would cost AD 100,000 bucks off the top in LA.
So 1) we can offer AD 70 mill more than anyone else.
2) If LA could offer the same 48,000,000. It would be a 4,800,000 dollar haircut IMMEDIATELY.
3) This is not counting Real Estate taxes, Road Taxes & on and on.
4) How is quality of life better in NY and LA ? That is proposterous.

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Where have you lived? Where do you currently live? Listen to what AD is telling you. HE IS TELLING YOU HE WANTS TO PAY MORE TAXES TO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES. AND TAKE LESS MONEY.

Do you understand how supply and demand works? Most people would prefer to live in NY and LA. It's the quality of life. Even with the taxes, people prefer these places. It's the reason those places are so much more expensive. It's the demand side of things. There is no arguing this.

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Where have you lived? Where do you currently live? Listen to what AD is telling you. HE IS TELLING YOU HE WANTS TO PAY MORE TAXES TO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES. AND TAKE LESS MONEY.

Do you understand how supply and demand works? Most people would prefer to live in NY and LA. It's the quality of life. Even with the taxes, people prefer these places. It's the reason those places are so much more expensive. It's the demand side of things. There is no arguing this.

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You obviously haven't actually lived in California, have you?

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Where have you lived? Where do you currently live? Listen to what AD is telling you. HE IS TELLING YOU HE WANTS TO PAY MORE TAXES TO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES. AND TAKE LESS MONEY.

Do you understand how supply and demand works? Most people would prefer to live in NY and LA. It's the quality of life. Even with the taxes, people prefer these places. It's the reason those places are so much more expensive. It's the demand side of things. There is no arguing this.

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Ugh ! Everything you just said is scary wrong. There is practically nobody in flyover country that wants to leave flyover country.
80% of N.Y. State is w/in the 5 boroughs ! It's the BUSINESS Capitol of the world. You keep saying quality of life! What does that mean? Unless you like Hollywood or the beach, what is California ? It's a Mecca for illegal immigrants, a Mecca for high taxes, a Mecca for wildfires, earthquakes & droughts. California is going broke , because they are either rich, on welfare or aren't paying a dime in taxes (sending all of their under the table money ) home to Cental America.

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Ugh ! Everything you just said is scary wrong. There is practically nobody in flyover country that wants to leave flyover country.
80% of N.Y. State is w/in the 5 boroughs ! It's the BUSINESS Capitol of the world. You keep saying quality of life! What does that mean? Unless you like Hollywood or the beach, what is California ? It's a Mecca for illegal immigrants, a Mecca for high taxes, a Mecca for wildfires, earthquakes & droughts. California is going broke , because they are either rich, on welfare or aren't paying a dime in taxes (sending all of their under the table money ) home to Cental America.

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is it cali or port doing the poop tax now? [emoji23]

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Ugh ! Everything you just said is scary wrong. There is practically nobody in flyover country that wants to leave flyover country.
80% of N.Y. State is w/in the 5 boroughs ! It's the BUSINESS Capitol of the world. You keep saying quality of life! What does that mean? Unless you like Hollywood or the beach, what is California ? It's a Mecca for illegal immigrants, a Mecca for high taxes, a Mecca for wildfires, earthquakes & droughts. California is going broke , because they are either rich, on welfare or aren't paying a dime in taxes (sending all of their under the table money ) home to Cental America.

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I’ll be honest, I work for a BBB in Houston, and I know that at some point I will have to move to either SF or NYC. Charlotte is becoming more of a center of the banking world, so maybe that is something to hope for.

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Ok he went long before my time. If I would have known I would have said something the time I saw him. Us Knights stick together.

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Ugh ! Everything you just said is scary wrong. There is practically nobody in flyover country that wants to leave flyover country.
80% of N.Y. State is w/in the 5 boroughs ! It's the BUSINESS Capitol of the world. You keep saying quality of life! What does that mean? Unless you like Hollywood or the beach, what is California ? It's a Mecca for illegal immigrants, a Mecca for high taxes, a Mecca for wildfires, earthquakes & droughts. California is going broke , because they are either rich, on welfare or aren't paying a dime in taxes (sending all of their under the table money ) home to Cental America.

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Stop being so defensive. These are the most visited cities in the United States by # of visitors:

1. New York City
2. Chicago
3. Atlanta
4. Anaheim
5. Orlando
6. Los Angeles
7. Las Vegas
8. Philadelphia
9. San Diego
10. San Francisco

That's where people want to visit. They also happen to be the majority of the top ten cities according to price per square foot and by nielsen market size.

My personal preferences don't matter. Your personal preferences don't matter. To act like people don't generally prefer big cities and what they offer (in terms of nightlife, food, beaches, etc) is putting your head in the sand. In terms of Zion or most 20 year olds with $$$ --- they want beaches, big city nightlife, diversity, girls, and diversity of girls. Of course they'll want LA or NYC. You'd have to be a home body or married to not want it.

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Stop being so defensive. These are the most visited cities in the United States by # of visitors:

1. New York City
2. Chicago
3. Atlanta
4. Anaheim
5. Orlando
6. Los Angeles
7. Las Vegas
8. Philadelphia
9. San Diego
10. San Francisco

That's where people want to visit. They also happen to be the majority of the top ten cities according to price per square foot and by nielsen market size.

My personal preferences don't matter. Your personal preferences don't matter. To act like people don't generally prefer big cities and what they offer (in terms of nightlife, food, beaches, etc) is putting your head in the sand. In terms of Zion or most 20 year olds with $$$ --- they want beaches, big city nightlife, diversity, girls, and diversity of girls. Of course they'll want LA or NYC. You'd have to be a home body or married to not want it.

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Whatever, dude. Not worth my time.
So wanting to visit is same as wanting to live, I guess? Your argument is silly, because it is 100% opinion, thus NOT fact.
Zion's coach at Duke states that Zion was intimidated by the traffic in New York. He's an 18yr old kid from a town of 4,000 in S.C.
He does not like the bright lights at all.
So, I'll be expecting you to notify us when you head to either coast to live.
You've changed the goalpost in this discussion 3 times thus far.
Diversity of girls !??? Lolololololololol . Oh gracious. What time is your next class ? What are you, 19? This conversation is over!

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Stop being so defensive. These are the most visited cities in the United States by # of visitors:

1. New York City
2. Chicago
3. Atlanta
4. Anaheim
5. Orlando
6. Los Angeles
7. Las Vegas
8. Philadelphia
9. San Diego
10. San Francisco

That's where people want to visit. They also happen to be the majority of the top ten cities according to price per square foot and by nielsen market size.

My personal preferences don't matter. Your personal preferences don't matter. To act like people don't generally prefer big cities and what they offer (in terms of nightlife, food, beaches, etc) is putting your head in the sand. In terms of Zion or most 20 year olds with $$$ --- they want beaches, big city nightlife, diversity, girls, and diversity of girls. Of course they'll want LA or NYC. You'd have to be a home body or married to not want it.

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Most visited has nothing to do with most desired. All those cities are larger than new orleans with larger airports. That list is simply a numbers game and useless in terms of life quality. Many people simply go there for work.

Of all the people I know that lived/worked in California, most of them prefer Nor Cal, while only maybe 2 out of 10 liked Los Angeles. Some of whom have now lived and worked in New Orleans for a decade but arent from NOLA.

For a city as small as Nola it holds its own against much larger places. Stuff like New Orleans being a 24/7 city versus a place like a L.A. where everything is closed by 2 am makes it preferable to some if not many. But you probably didnt know that.

Before you assume so much you need to actually go there first. I'd personally prefer Toronto and New Orleans over both NY and L.A.

As far as nightlife in American cities, most lists start off like this:

https://www.skyscanner.com/tips-and-...-united-states

https://www.travelandleisure.com/sli...=111828#111828

Being an bigger TV market does not mean they have the best ratings....

Master P got our back

https://www.tmz.com/2019/05/18/maste...n-new-orleans/

Regarding markets, y'all are clueless.

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Regarding markets, y'all are clueless.

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Thank you for the input.

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Thank you for the input.

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Anytime.

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