Louisville needs/deserves and NBA team
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If Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee can do it, KY can as well. Like I said before, it'll never happen now but the arena is already there, when Louisville is actually good to great they get solid crowds, crowds also show up if a popular act plays at the arena, etc.
Some here are painting a picture that doesn't seem to exist. You know how Stoops' matra became "Why not?" Why not Louisville? Folks never really have an answer for that, just "I don't think it would be supported." Now you may have a point if we got some hapless team that won 16 games every year but when we'd get the latest superstar out of college. Continuing to move our support and money to another state north of us is just a bizarre answer. IMO anyway. I always enjoy this discussion every couple years though.
Downtown Louisville has been dead since Covid and never has recovered. If I’m not mistaken there’s only one Fortune 500 company in the whole city. I don’t think Louisville could support it.
Ohio and Tennessee have several major cities. Indiana has Indianapolis but also several big time university colleges whereas Kentucky has one major city and only two large universities. That’s the difference between Kentucky and those other states.
Are we actually counting Akron, Toledo, Dayton, Knoxville, and Chattanooga as "major cities"? TN has Nashville and Memphis. Nashville wasn't what is it now 25 years ago. Ohio has Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati.
Face it, those states and local governments opted to grow and KY pretended it was still 1977. We watched Indy, Cincy, and Nashville grow and did nothing locally to join them. And now Nashville is a constant happening and will likely get a SB and Wrestlemania soon. And some here have the solution of "NO" and "let's continue throwing our support and money to neighboring states." Brillant, guys. The more this board changes the more it stays the same lol.
Every state that borders Kentucky has casinos. The state doesn't care about money leaving the state.
Stop. This makes too much sense. We want our money and support continually going to Ohio because...
If you put 2 fields right next to each other, one with MLB players playing each other and one with AAA players, nobody would be able to tell you between the 2.
You bet we do and it is exactly that. Summers are awful but a small price to pay for all the other good stuff. Government actually works for its citizens, gets stuff done and has a huge monetary surplus.
Not perfect but pretty darn good .
Even if I don’t count those other cities you listed, both of those states do have three major cities. We still only have one. You made my point. It’s also worth noting that the state of Kentucky is top 5 poorest in the nation.
Nice intelligent retort but not surprising.
You bring up being a poor state as a point when a pro team could help change that in some ways and could help downtown. You do not know until you try. Even as a poor state, we still pour money into other states for various reasons. We did it with gambling and continue to do it with sports teams. Imagine Danny Wimmer saying "KY has one major city and the state is poor. I'm not going to have two of the largest music festivals on earth in KY, in that city." But he didn't think that way and now people from around the world travel to Louisville because of music. He tried something and it worked and it helps the city every year. Imagine that.
This board, or rather some here, have a defeatist attitude and don't try mentality towards the state they supposedly love.
So here's the reasons why it won't work so far:
"NO"
"It won't work"
"We have Louisville and the state is poor"
"I hope it happens in neighboring states and Kentuckians will support those other states"
"NBA sucks"
This is something I’m guessing a lot of young people don’t realize.
Louisville used to be considered roughly on par with cities like Indy and Nashville in stature and importance. But then those cities elevated themselves to “major” status, as Louisville remained stagnated …seemingly content to forever be known as the nation’s biggest “minor” city.
no one blow anything, logistically louisville currently does not have any chance to host any pro sports team, they do not have enough hotel rooms and most importantly they do not have direct flights to enough other Pro sports cities. it's as simple as that. too hard to get here. Memphis is FedEx hub and has connections everywhere, just like charlotte, vegas and seattle. simply, the NBA requires a city to be directly accessible via plane and to get to louisville requires too many connections. Until major carriers upgrade their louisville flights to non stop, no way for any pro sports team to come to the city. not anyone's fault, no one blew any negotiation, it's simply travel logisitics. where anything got blown was when louisville missed out on the united airline maintenance hub that went to indy. had that happened a two decades ago the airport would have gotten more united flights and would have become a true international hub designation, instead of being one only due to UPS flights. so simplynot enough flights or hotels rooms to support a pro franchise at the moment.doesn;t matter what pitino, jurich, mayors abramson or armstrong, or greenberg, or nay govnr in the past could do, louisville just not big enough to support the infrastructure a pro team needs.
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No, it's just the typical response when you cant debate the facts so then the fallback position is to call names. Same type of behavior and misplaced arrogance that has ruined so many great cities and states.
People are moving to Tennessee because they don’t have a state tax not because of a sports team.
How long before the Grizzlies relocate to Nashville? I cant believe it isn't already in the works
I bet you wish you could afford to live here too
You have yet to construct a single argument. Your replies consist of empty mockery without a point. You're vapid, specious, and hackneyed.
An "argument" for what? "Empty mockery" is the response s.hitheads like you deserve.
The average American family is worried about affording groceries, gas, and Healthcare at the moment. Not expensive NBA tickets.
Maybe revisit this topic in a few years IF we can get the economy to rebound.
Maybe revisit this topic in a few years IF we can get the economy to rebound.
Maybe revisit the Tar Heel board and let Kentuckians decide for themselves whether they have desire for a pro team.
Guess you've forgotten I grew up in Lexington and still have family in the state. You sound an awful lot like one of the insecure kids at Lansdowne Elementary that tried to bully me for wearing a UNC shirt while UK was serving the Sutton era ban.
They were definitely insecure. The team their parents told them to cheer for was banned from television and banned from the postseason. Which is why a lot of other kids found other teams to cheer for. At least half the kids on my YMCA basketball team (shout out Coach Rick) were fans of other college teams they could actually watch on TV. And with WGN being part of the local cable package, we were all watching a lot of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Now be honest, do you feel good about yourself for allowing your personal insecurities to completely disrupt this thread? Wouldn't it have been easier to just keep the topic on the discussion of a potential Louisville NBA team instead of randomly lashing out at a guy who grew up in Lexington?
Nah, just move along. I should have left you alone.
