I don’t get what you’re saying regarding Sacramento.
Them moving would still be the same “organization”. Are you saying the owner needs to sell the team?
Well I would assume ownership would automatically change over with a relocation but that's a fair point you make. I just didn't think I had to address it as part of my larger point.
But if they change ownership and they start putting a product worth watching on the floor then hell, keep them there...
My biggest issue is that for whatever reason, people outside of Nola view the Pelicans as the team who has been under the same ownership for a lengthy period of time and use isolated incidents to judge them as a whole.
The CP3 years were not the AD years. The AD years are not the current iteration of this team. At every level there has been a change in ownership to some degree and should be judged on that alone. But it's the cool thing to say that the Pelicans mishandled the CP years, they botched the AD years, and they're currently botching the Zion era.
This is NO shade to the knick fans on this board as I genuinely fuck with all of them but they have had the same owner for the last what, 20+ years? Fans have boycotted for him to sell the team, they have had the worst record in the league going back since I think 2006, but no one on a national stage is trying to relocate them based on the product that's on the floor. Don't confuse this with fan support. I'm strictly talking from a team production standpoint.
But the talking points are "Zion is trying to force his way to the Knicks". How is this good for the NBA when national outlets continue to say this shit every chance they get?
There are stars everywhere in this league. And that's how it should be and they should all be getting recognition regardless of market size.
