Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
You'd think they'd get over it at some point. The league is making money, they're making money (Stephen A Smith's recent contract is huge), they get to travel a bunch, the league is full of great cities. Especially when LA and NY aren't free agent hubs. Aside from LBJ, who has non-basketball reasons to be in LA, when was the last time either the Lakers or the Knicks got a top tier free agent?
New York and LA might be cool places, but that doesn't mean they're the only cool places. New Orleans isn't for everyone, sure, but if it's for you, it's for you.** Miami is a cool place. Toronto is a super super modern metropolis. It's not all NY or LA.
**Just a caveat here: I have never actually been to New Orleans, so I'm just basing this off what people say.