October 8, 200916 yr Since I believe Louisville to be the most viable option, let me ask the following question. How many current NBA teams also share their arena with an NCAA basketball team? My hunch is that the number will be quite low.
October 8, 200916 yr Since I believe Louisville to be the most viable option, let me ask the following question. How many current NBA teams also share their arena with an NCAA basketball team? My hunch is that the number will be quite low. The Milwaukee Bucks & Marquette, the Knicks & St. John's (limited games), Washington Wizards-Georgetown Hoyas, Miami Heat-Miami Hurricanes (limited games). These are the ones I know of right off hand, I don't know of Oklahoma City sharing with any college or university and the same goes for New Orleans.
October 8, 200916 yr For Cincinnati to get an NBA franchise, whether it be an expansion team or a team wanting to move, there would have to be a major shift in thinking by the city council and county commissioners on getting the monies needed for a new arena first. The Colliseum just doesn't have enough seats, and the needed luxury boxes to generate the revenue needed to make a successfull go of it. This is a city and county who can't get on the same page to fund a badly needed new jail, laying off city and county employees, wants to spend $250 mil. on a street car system into one of the worst neighborhoods in the country and is still smarting from giving Mike Brown a sweetheart deal on a new football stadium a decade ago, it just ain't gonna happen. I would like to see a NBA team in Cincy, but the only way it will get done is if a private owner comes in, buys land and builds it himself (at least 20,000 seats). Louisville has a much better shot at it.
October 9, 200916 yr Villanova & the 76ers share an arena I think. They play a few higher profile games there, but also have an on campus arena...
October 9, 200916 yr If I could get lower arena season tickets , I'd drive two hours to every game in Lexington.
October 9, 200916 yr Unfortunately I don't think either site could hold a team. It's too bad, some reports say that the Kings may eventually have to move.
October 10, 200916 yr What if they have a team that plays 82 regular season games and played 60 games in Louisville and 22 games in Lexington and they were.... Da Kentucky Colonels ! Might even be able to have a few games in Cincy or Northern Kentucky area.
October 10, 200916 yr What if they have a team that plays 82 regular season games and played 60 games in Louisville and 22 games in Lexington and they were.... Da Kentucky Colonels ! Might even be able to have a few games in Cincy or Northern Kentucky area. 41 home dates split between 2 or 3 "home" sites, may I remind you of the old Kansas City-Omaha Kings. Didn't work then, probably won't work now. Louisville and Lexington could do it as far as seating, but Cincy would have to have a new arena and like I said in my previous post, it ain't gonna happen financially in that city.
October 10, 200916 yr I remember it well cause I was a broken hearted kid when they took our franchise from Cincinnati Royals. That franchise now is in Sacramento. That also was the late 1960's when corporate America didn't take as big of interest as they do now with luxury boxes and so forth. I'm not saying it would work. If there is a new arena in Lexington plus the new facility in Louisville those two cities might be able to pull it off in 2010 or 2011. Lexington would pull from Eastern Kentucky. Where Louisville wouldn't. Louisville would pull from the western part of the state where Lexington might not. Both would pull from Northern Kentucky. Kentucky Colonels with John Wall at the point. Stevenson kid from UC at the 2 guard. Earl Clark at the 3. Patrick Patterson playing the 4. Who knows, it would take the right group of folks to make it work. IMO its a lot more doable than in the late 60's.
October 10, 200916 yr I think a huge problem would be free agency as well. I couldn't see too many stars wanting to spend their playing days in those areas. I personally love all three areas, but I don't know how much they offer for a 24-27 year old millionaire athlete. Lord knows, it would be terrible to have an NBA team, and have the organizations ran as bad as the Bengals and Reds.
October 10, 200916 yr That does seem about right, but for some reason I thought I had been told the arena wouldn't be big enough to support a NBA team. The biggest obstacle now in the way of any professional team in Louisville (apart from the fact that there just aren't enough people in the metro area to support a team) is that UofL controls all revenue from the suites and luxury boxes in the new arena... no NBA team could deal with not getting that revenue.
October 10, 200916 yr I think a huge problem would be free agency as well. I couldn't see too many stars wanting to spend their playing days in those areas. I personally love all three areas, but I don't know how much they offer for a 24-27 year old millionaire athlete. Lord knows, it would be terrible to have an NBA team, and have the organizations ran as bad as the Bengals and Reds. Louisville or Cincinnati has just has as much to offer (just in different ways) as Memphis or Oklahoma City.
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