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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:44 pm    Post subject: Steve Ballmer says not to expect the NBA to return to Seattle for a couple years at least

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Steve Ballmer says not to expect NBA return to Seattle for a couple of years, at least


Seattle still has great basketball fans. Just ask Nate Robinson, Jamal Crawford, and the other players who have come out of that area — the city loves hoops.

And it wants an NBA team again.

But that’s not going to happen for a few years, at least, according to Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who lived a large part of his life in Seattle (and was part of the group trying to buy the Kings and move them up there a few years back). Ballmer is in Seattle for the Geek Wire Sports Technology Summit and was asked by Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times if an NBA team could be on its way to Seattle soon (hat tip Dan Devine at Ball Don’t Lie):

“It’s just not likely to happen,” Ballmer told those attending the conference. “There has been no discussion about expansion since I have been involved with the league. So, I don’t think that will happen. The league has really moved to favor teams staying in their current markets. You’d have to find a team that’s at the end of their (arena) lease, where it looks hard to build an arena and where they’ve tried really hard to build an arena.

“And you’d have to show that an arena can get built in Seattle,” he added. “Because unlike most other cities that build an arena before they have a team, I don’t think an arena is going to get built here before a team comes here unless it gets done in the context of hockey.”

A couple of years may be optimistic, Ballmer was likely just being nice. Even with the explosive growth in television revenue, there seems to be no appetite among the owners to divide that revenue pie up into thinner slices. Balmer is far from the only one to say this, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has echoed the point recently as well. Expansion remains off the table for now.

Seattle’s best hope for a while may have been the Milwaukee Bucks, but after threats of leaving the state government caved and pitched in $250 million, making the deal possible. The Bucks broke ground on their new arena downtown last month. Nothing imminent is on the horizon with teams that are likely to consider a move.

Sorry Seattle.

And don’t ask about Ballmer’s Clippers.

“The Clippers are not going anywhere — ever,” he said. “I will die owning the L.A. Clippers.”
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:31 pm    Post subject:

you can never make me lose hope that the clippers will get moved to seattle.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:52 pm    Post subject:

27 wrote:
you can never make me lose hope that the clippers will get moved to seattle.


Will never happened. Moving the Clippers to Seattle would drop the franchise value by at least $1 billion. The furthest they'll ever move is Anaheim.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:58 am    Post subject:

Seattle is ongoing leverage for nba teams to get governments to pay for their stadiums.

Don't want to pay up in Sacramento? We'll move to Seattle! gets money
Don't want to pay up in Milwaukee? We'll move to Seattle! gets money

They'll keep playing this card until someone finally doesn't pay

And then Seattle will get the team.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:52 pm    Post subject:

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you can never make me lose hope that the clippers will get moved to seattle.


Will never happened. Moving the Clippers to Seattle would drop the franchise value by at least $1 billion. The furthest they'll ever move is Anaheim.


whatever. just move.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:38 pm    Post subject:

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27 wrote:
you can never make me lose hope that the clippers will get moved to seattle.


Will never happened. Moving the Clippers to Seattle would drop the franchise value by at least $1 billion. The furthest they'll ever move is Anaheim.


whatever. just move.


Compelling reasoning.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:06 pm    Post subject:

activeverb wrote:
27 wrote:
you can never make me lose hope that the clippers will get moved to seattle.


Will never happened. Moving the Clippers to Seattle would drop the franchise value by at least $1 billion. The furthest they'll ever move is Anaheim.


Which will drop it by $2 billion.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:25 pm    Post subject:

Telleris wrote:
Seattle is ongoing leverage for nba teams to get governments to pay for their stadiums.

Don't want to pay up in Sacramento? We'll move to Seattle! gets money
Don't want to pay up in Milwaukee? We'll move to Seattle! gets money

They'll keep playing this card until someone finally doesn't pay

And then Seattle will get the team.



Yep everything else is BS
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:51 am    Post subject:

Better solution would be moving the Thunder back to Seattle and changing their name to the Supersonics once again.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 1:54 pm    Post subject:

That's a shame. I really want the the clippers out of LA.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:11 pm    Post subject:

Telleris wrote:
Seattle is ongoing leverage for nba teams to get governments to pay for their stadiums.

Don't want to pay up in Sacramento? We'll move to Seattle! gets money
Don't want to pay up in Milwaukee? We'll move to Seattle! gets money

They'll keep playing this card until someone finally doesn't pay

And then Seattle will get the team.


It was like how Los Angeles was before the Rams finally came back. Every team in the NFL at one point used LA as leverage for a new stadium.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:22 pm    Post subject:

lakersken80 wrote:
Better solution would be moving the Thunder back to Seattle and changing their name to the Supersonics once again.


Can we move the Clippers to Alaska and then we can have a real northwest division?

Bye.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:08 pm    Post subject:

lakersken80 wrote:
Better solution would be moving the Thunder back to Seattle and changing their name to the Supersonics once again.


Once all the quality players leave, this might actually happen.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:00 pm    Post subject:

frijolero01 wrote:
Telleris wrote:
Seattle is ongoing leverage for nba teams to get governments to pay for their stadiums.

Don't want to pay up in Sacramento? We'll move to Seattle! gets money
Don't want to pay up in Milwaukee? We'll move to Seattle! gets money

They'll keep playing this card until someone finally doesn't pay

And then Seattle will get the team.


It was like how Los Angeles was before the Rams finally came back. Every team in the NFL at one point used LA as leverage for a new stadium.


The difference was that the NFL didn't conspire with new owners (and personal friends of the commissioner) to pretend they were staying but really planning to move the team all along.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:34 pm    Post subject:

die owning the LA clippers? whatever Balmer! you will die by never winning an NBA championship or even having real LA fans. take that fact to heaven with Chick and Jerry laughing at you.

AT LEAST DIE with diginity and fans by moving to seattle and change the name to the sonics and adopt that 79 title
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:56 pm    Post subject:

The guy reminds me of the actor playing Frankenstein in the Young Frankenstein movie.
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