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Originally posted by shyFX325!
your an administrator so i am gonna try to be nice about it, but the idea of having a team out of North America is jsut ridiculous. Probaby the stupidest idea david stern has ever had. Just look how the experiment is failing in canada, in baseball and basketball there were 4 franchises a couple years back...now one is gone to memphis, the other is owned by the league on its way out. Players always complain about cross country road trips, could you imagine the jetlag flying in and out of europe, not to mention the time and cost. the franchise might have a good fan base at first, but all these adversities would hold the team in the basement and lead towards long term disaster, how are you gonna talk a nba superstar into packing up and leaving the country??? Are we already forgetting how much the grizzlies were hurt when Steve Francis refused to be drafted by them.
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The NBA isn't failing in Canada, Toronto was in the top 5 in attendance last year, during hockey season! I think that says something as I know people that worship the Maple Leafs. It failed in Vancouver cuz of bad owners, general managers, coaches, no real superstar, terrible W-L record etc. I bet the Memphis Grizzlies had the same attendance as the Vancouver Grizzlies.