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Bay Area really underrated for the tech aspect and future earnings for players. It’s becoming more important to players to be able to set themselves up with investments.
I agree it means less, but it still matters. It is why LeBron is in LA.
SuperStars need to see a winning culture. In most cases they also need to see at least a decent market. Franchises like Indiana, Utah, and Milwaukee have a tough time signing premier FAs even when they do have winning cultures.
Ah, knew I missed a market. I'd throw them in that 6-9 range where I can't decide on where to rank them. Definitely in that tier though.
1. Floss Angeles
2. Zoo York
3. Bean Town
4. The Chi
5. Latin Gateway
6. Da Bay
I think cleveland ranks somewhere just below Flint, Michigan
historically Boston has been one of the places that NBA free agents have scorned until very very very recently. A few years ago the Lakers tried to go after Greg Monroe and were laughed at and he went to Milwaukee. Jimmy Butler worked to get out of Chicago and ended up going to the wastelands of northern Minnesota.
Market has never mattered less in the NBA than it does today, and matters INSANELY less than it used to 20 years ago where you had to be in a major market to even be on national TV.
You also have to ask yourself when exactly these teams have had the cap space to sign a marquee free agent. Just like a lot of teams, the Pacers have had their one and only legit opportunity to this point in 2016, when Bird wasted that cap space on the likes of Thaddeus Young and Al Jefferson simply because he thought he was getting them at bargain prices.
Utah had their opportunity at major cap space back in 2013, but they were in rebuilding at the time and knowing they probably wouldn't attract anyone of significance because of that, they went ahead and handed extensions to Alec Burks and Derrick Favors, not to mention matching Charlotte's offer for Gordon Hayward the prior summer.
Milwaukee has been salary cap hell for as long as I could remember. They've always spent recklessly on mediocre role players such as John Salmons, Dan Gadzuric, Charlie Bell, Mirza Teletovic, John Henson, etc.
All in all, you can't base perspective on "markets" entirely on what LeBron James does. It's not the politically correct approach to use, because it is merely one man's opinion, in addition to the fact that he'll go to whatever destination boosts his ego that's the size of Russia.
Not widely considered a destination city - Denver, for instance, landed a damn good player in Paul Millsap, who had been a four-time all-star. The icing of the cake for them was the fact that he has more playoff series wins to his record than that joke Carmelo Anthony, and he entered the league four years later than Anthony did.
ehhh....milsap is not that bad as a free agent.Millsap is not a Marquis free agent.
That is the point.
Your non-destination markets need to overpay players to land them. That is how it works. Who else was offering Millsap a max contract? Minnesota maybe?
When the best of the best are available on the open market, the smaller market teams don't have a chance UNLESS:
1) they have built a phenomenal winning culture over a long period of time (San Antonio)
2) the player has ties in that area (LeBron in Cleveland)
I am not basing that off 1 player like you suggest. It is the entire history of free agency in the NBA.
Bay Area really underrated for the tech aspect and future earnings for players. It’s becoming more important to players to be able to set themselves up with investments.
Bay Area should be at least 8th...
Historically in the NBA they aren't. They are a dynasty now so maybe somehow that's changed how the city is perceived by the current NBA player.
I wouldn't mind visiting there sometime. Zero interest in seeing tech companies but the sourdough bread is supposed to be good. They have a bridge. And my personal favorite the city the original 48 hours was filmed in. And it has streetcars. Even a song about it.
I wouldn't mind visiting there sometime. Zero interest in seeing tech companies but the sourdough bread is supposed to be good. They have a bridge. And my personal favorite the city the original 48 hours was filmed in. And it has streetcars. Even a song about it.