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Originally Posted by New Era
Quebec City will not pay $500M for a team. Quebecor balked at the price tag in the last expansion. If they were game to pay that, there would be a team in Quebec City right now. No one in Canada is ponying up $500M USD for an expansion team. Not even someone in Toronto.
Houston is probably not in the mix for expansion either. Expansion will be a result of a market wanting to plant their flag and beat out the competition from the other leagues. Las Vegas was game, because they knew they would be able to have a two year lead on the the NFL coming to town. Houston will be a secondary tenant to the Rockets, so it will be a cheaper relocation scenario (Calgary or Arizona IMO). Seattle might be willing to cough up that money for expansion, just to force the hands of the NBA. This is a situation that will need monitoring as I think it could go either way. The Seattle market is great sports market, but you have acknowledge pecking order for the sports ticket dollar.
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Tough. Thats the price now.
You want to know why we're not going to see a lot of relocations? Because expansion fees are lucrative.
A team that has yet to make a dollar has to pay 31 other teams $500M and they're not lining up to say 'No.'
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