[magmo68Participant]

…When David Stern mentions that a couple of owners are in favor of contracting the Hornets, you know those are teams that have the worst records in the league. The owners of teams like Cleveland, Minnesota, Sacramento,Toronto and New Jersey gotta be drooling at the thought of having a shot at a high(1-5) pick and the opportunity to pick up Chris Paul or David West in some kind of Contraction Draft. Thats the type of situation that could seriously turn a franchise around

[magmo68Participant]

…its probably part of Dan Gilberts master plan to win a championship before Lebron…lol

[magmo68Participant]

…its probably part of Dan Gilberts master plan to win a championship before Lebron…lol

[torontoraptors10Participant]

I also heard that the Hornets could be moving to Vancouver. The owner of the Vancouver Canucks wants to buy an NBA team and has been trying since 2005 to get one. Vancouver is a REALLY nice city and I would love to see them have a team. Plus, Seattle and Vancouver are near each other.

[torontoraptors10Participant]

I also heard that the Hornets could be moving to Vancouver. The owner of the Vancouver Canucks wants to buy an NBA team and has been trying since 2005 to get one. Vancouver is a REALLY nice city and I would love to see them have a team. Plus, Seattle and Vancouver are near each other.

[MkadozaParticipant]

 Seattle Supersonic >>>> Vancouver Grizzlies in every way…

[MkadozaParticipant]

 Seattle Supersonic >>>> Vancouver Grizzlies in every way…

[HitsterParticipant]

CP3 can opt out in 2012 and David West can opt out this summer then they would unlikely to be in a contraction draft. A fun option would be to give teams the choice to pick via the draft or any contraction draft. 

[HitsterParticipant]

CP3 can opt out in 2012 and David West can opt out this summer then they would unlikely to be in a contraction draft. A fun option would be to give teams the choice to pick via the draft or any contraction draft. 

[Bossy13Participant]

 Yeah, there’s no way they’d have a seperate contraction draft. It would more than likely be rolled in with teh regular draft. If a team took a player from the contracted team they would forfeit their rookie draft pick, and then probably recieve a compensatory pick at the end of the first round ( like a sandwich pick in MLB). So if the team picking first chose Chris Paul, they would also then have the 30th pick in the draft ( which would probably be more like the 25th pick because a bunch of the top teams would take veteran role players so less rookies would be drafted in the first round). I also doubt they’d do a one team contraction…. if one goes, then a second probably will as well. 

Of course I just made all that up so it’s not like I know what Im talking about.  

[Bossy13Participant]

 Yeah, there’s no way they’d have a seperate contraction draft. It would more than likely be rolled in with teh regular draft. If a team took a player from the contracted team they would forfeit their rookie draft pick, and then probably recieve a compensatory pick at the end of the first round ( like a sandwich pick in MLB). So if the team picking first chose Chris Paul, they would also then have the 30th pick in the draft ( which would probably be more like the 25th pick because a bunch of the top teams would take veteran role players so less rookies would be drafted in the first round). I also doubt they’d do a one team contraction…. if one goes, then a second probably will as well. 

Of course I just made all that up so it’s not like I know what Im talking about.  

[NashyMingParticipant]

Seattle doesn’t even have a good enough arena for NBA level basketball.  Key Arena is just not good enough for NBA anymore.  That’s why OKC had a "legitimate" reason to move the team.  I just don’t see Seattle getting a team until it can at least secured a deal to build a new arena.  The fans and the market are there, but there’s no place for NBA.

On the other hand, Vancouver has an NBA level arena owned by the Canucks owner who is interested in buying Hornets and relocating the team to Vancouver.  Vancouver also has a good market and if the marketing is done properly, it maybe able to attract some Sonics fans while they are still waiting for an NBA comeback.

The Vancouver Canucks owner has proven to be able to put together a competitive team, so there’s reason to be optimistic that a new team in Vancouver would do much better than the crappy Vancouver Griz.

The Vancouver Grizziles were terribly managed, drafted bust after bust with top 5 picks every year of its existance.  It was constantly in bottom 5 for the few years in Vancouver.  I don’t see how the Canucks owner can do worse.

[NashyMingParticipant]

Seattle doesn’t even have a good enough arena for NBA level basketball.  Key Arena is just not good enough for NBA anymore.  That’s why OKC had a "legitimate" reason to move the team.  I just don’t see Seattle getting a team until it can at least secured a deal to build a new arena.  The fans and the market are there, but there’s no place for NBA.

On the other hand, Vancouver has an NBA level arena owned by the Canucks owner who is interested in buying Hornets and relocating the team to Vancouver.  Vancouver also has a good market and if the marketing is done properly, it maybe able to attract some Sonics fans while they are still waiting for an NBA comeback.

The Vancouver Canucks owner has proven to be able to put together a competitive team, so there’s reason to be optimistic that a new team in Vancouver would do much better than the crappy Vancouver Griz.

The Vancouver Grizziles were terribly managed, drafted bust after bust with top 5 picks every year of its existance.  It was constantly in bottom 5 for the few years in Vancouver.  I don’t see how the Canucks owner can do worse.

[HitsterParticipant]

The Vancouver Hornets does not sound right, anyone got any ideas. The Vancouver Vanguard was my first idea but I don’t like it now. Apparently 30% of Vancouver’s population is Oriential/Chinese so there could be an interesting market there.

But I’m always a little scepticial about putting teams back to areas where things haven’t worked out before and the Vancouver Girizzles had a record to rival the current T-Wolves team.

Personally would the NBA want to do a contraction draft as it would be rather embarassing given that the NFL expanded to 32 teams in recent years and logically you could see David Stern wanting the NBA to perhaps do the same. Also with Stern maybe not going to be Commissioner for that many more years as he is in his late 60’s now would he particularly not want this to happen towards the end of his tenure.

The flipside is that some owners may be quite keen as if all the broadcasting money and other revenue is split 29 or 28 ways as opposed to 30 then they get a bigger share of the pot.

I’d assume the players’ union would be strongly against losing any teams as it would mean less NBA roster spaces for it’s members. Losing maybe 30 spots out of a maximum of 300 and maybe closer to 280 given that some teams don’t carry a full roster would be a huge drop in the amount of spaces available for NBA players to fill.

 

[HitsterParticipant]

The Vancouver Hornets does not sound right, anyone got any ideas. The Vancouver Vanguard was my first idea but I don’t like it now. Apparently 30% of Vancouver’s population is Oriential/Chinese so there could be an interesting market there.

But I’m always a little scepticial about putting teams back to areas where things haven’t worked out before and the Vancouver Girizzles had a record to rival the current T-Wolves team.

Personally would the NBA want to do a contraction draft as it would be rather embarassing given that the NFL expanded to 32 teams in recent years and logically you could see David Stern wanting the NBA to perhaps do the same. Also with Stern maybe not going to be Commissioner for that many more years as he is in his late 60’s now would he particularly not want this to happen towards the end of his tenure.

The flipside is that some owners may be quite keen as if all the broadcasting money and other revenue is split 29 or 28 ways as opposed to 30 then they get a bigger share of the pot.

I’d assume the players’ union would be strongly against losing any teams as it would mean less NBA roster spaces for it’s members. Losing maybe 30 spots out of a maximum of 300 and maybe closer to 280 given that some teams don’t carry a full roster would be a huge drop in the amount of spaces available for NBA players to fill.

 

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