Quote:
Originally Posted by mello
You bring up KC and Louisville as cities who already have downtown arenas that is great. First off Louisville is a tiny metro area compared to SD and like I said KC already has NFL and MLB that is why the NBA isn't interested in them.
Now the big difference is sex appeal. KC and Louisville yawn.... San Diego has way more sizzle than those places and is on its way to having one of the best downtowns in the country. Look at the huge Manchesterpacificgateway.com development about to break ground and the Seaport Village redevelopment. Do KC and Louisville have a water front? No. Do they have amazing downtowns with mega projects taking place? No.
San Diego is a major tourist destination with 5000 new hotel rooms in the pipeline in and around downtown. These are the reasons the NBA would look at it before adding a 3rd major pro sports team in KC or putting one in tiny Louisville.
|
Well, NBA is attracted to cities like Louisville with no other top tier pro sports competition where they can control the corporate support. Like Sacramento, Memphis, Portland, OKC, Salt Lake, San Antonio, Orlando.
The reason there isn't interest is because there isn't any overwhelmingly struggling franchises in the NBA at this time, but they have the arena built and ready to go, should someone slip up, or expansion come onto the agenda, San Diego does not at this moment in time.