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Old 01-10-2015, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Atlanta (Finally on 4-1-17)
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Just curious what you "in the know" folks thinK?

What are the chances the Hawks stay in Atlanta after the sale?
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Old 01-10-2015, 01:06 PM
 
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No. NBA has already said they won't allow it.
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Old 01-10-2015, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Atlanta (Finally on 4-1-17)
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No. NBA has already said they won't allow it.

Ahh...thanks.
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Old 01-10-2015, 01:18 PM
 
Location: N.C. for now... Atlanta future
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Whew, good. I didn't hardly think they would allow a top ten metro area to be without an NBA franchise.
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Old 01-10-2015, 02:06 PM
 
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Whew, good. I didn't hardly think they would allow a top ten metro area to be without an NBA franchise.
Many people wouldn't care if they left and metro size is irrelevant. LA hasn't had a NFL team in 20 years....
Atlanta doesn't have a NHL team.
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Old 01-10-2015, 02:31 PM
 
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With the possible exception of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest, there's really not an open market that the Hawks could move to. Pretty much all of the large and mid-size markets where an NBA franchise would be viable have NBA franchises.

The Hawks play in a 16 year-old facility in Philips Arena that is still very much viable and up to current modern NBA standards.

Even if the Hawks are changing ownership, it would not make much (if any) sense for the new ownership to attempt to move from a modern facility in a Top-10 market with extremely favorable demographics and an extremely large corporate community to a much smaller market with less favorable demographics and a much smaller corporate community.
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Old 01-10-2015, 03:23 PM
 
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Why relocate? Haven't you heard there is a 1.3 mile streetcar line in town now?


Seriously though, the NBA wouldn't want them to leave and abandon this market.
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Old 01-10-2015, 03:25 PM
 
Location: N.C. for now... Atlanta future
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Many people wouldn't care if they left and metro size is irrelevant. LA hasn't had a NFL team in 20 years....
Atlanta doesn't have a NHL team.
That's a pity... Many major cities appreciate their teams. Maybe that's a good reason Atlanta's teams do so poorly... To the contrary, metro size DOES matter when awarding teams. The larger the MSA, the more teams they have. LA might lack an NFL team, but the greater area has 7 pro teams (2 basketball, 2 hockey, 2 baseball, 1 soccer). Chicago and New York also have multiple teams.
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Old 01-10-2015, 04:02 PM
 
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Many people wouldn't care if they left and metro size is irrelevant. LA hasn't had a NFL team in 20 years....
Atlanta doesn't have a NHL team.
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That's a pity... Many major cities appreciate their teams. Maybe that's a good reason Atlanta's teams do so poorly... To the contrary, metro size DOES matter when awarding teams. The larger the MSA, the more teams they have. LA might lack an NFL team, but the greater area has 7 pro teams (2 basketball, 2 hockey, 2 baseball, 1 soccer). Chicago and New York also have multiple teams.
Some of the reasons why a major city/metro like Atlanta seems not to appreciate its pro sports teams like many other major city/metros is because Atlanta is a highly transient metro area where most of the metro area's residents were born and raised in either another state or another country and bring their pro sports allegiances from those places with them.

And of the metro area's residents who were born and raised in Georgia and in the South, college athletics (particularly College Football) are the biggest priority leaving Atlanta's pro sports teams to be a distant second in priority unless those pro sports teams are playing exceptionally well.
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Old 01-10-2015, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Raleigh
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Many people wouldn't care if they left and metro size is irrelevant. LA hasn't had a NFL team in 20 years....
Atlanta doesn't have a NHL team.
Part of the reason LA doesn't have a NFL franchise has more to do with lack of ownership wanting to have kept, acquire, or get an expansion franchise. Additionally, the target demographics of NBA are way different these days than the NFL...
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