Posted by jkaye24 on 1/4/2014 5:34:00 PM (view original):
Posted by cmcafeeky on 1/4/2014 4:49:00 PM (view original):
examples:
Mark Cuban trades Mavericks team / franchise to the Buss family for the Lakers....
do they shift the Mavericks to Pacific conf.?
Jerry Jones trades his team / franchise the Dallas Cowboys to the Rooney family for the Steelers -
do they shift Dallas to the AFC and Pittsburgh to the NFC ?
PS: My apologies to the league for having to listen to my crying,
and to Smokey, but dang - this is a clear cut case....
PSS: I guess Smokey has just gave a death sentence to the Pac division -
I am getting ready to open a barrell or two of kick a$$-
even though this team was built under the assumption that it would be in the midwest and not facing Wilt -
I would target my anger onto smokey's team - but after looking at it - he killed it on his own already
I just sent my GF to the pharmacy for Preperation H -
I have been screwed thoroughly and my 'roids' are acting up-
Honestly if it means that much to you, you can take the spot in the midwest.
That said, your examples make no sense. No one ever trades a franchise. You trade players. Its not often you see ENTIRE teams traded, but thats what we did. Extending that to include the physical location of the team is odd, but if your original intention was to leave the west, then i dont want you to feel cheated. Smokey can make the rules clearer going forward but i will give you this one
jkaye, you can stay where you are - its not really that big a deal to me now-
I was just kind of shocked to find that I had ended back in the Pacific again...
especially after thinking I was preparing for those teams and not the centers in the Pacific
In 1978, John Y. Brown and Irv Levine did in fact 'swap franchises.'
John Y. Brown traded with Levin and got the Celtics, and Levin got the Buffalo Braves.
Levin soon moved the Braves to San Diego and renamed the club the Clippers-
Imagine trading the Celtics and getting the Clippers....
Before we think John Y. Brown was a genius - by getting the Celtics -
He took a buyout of about $3 Million to fold the ABA's Kentucky Colonels instead of getting them rightfully into the NBA-
while parlaying that payout into the Celtics - which he soon ruined by trading Auerbach's 3 first rounders for McAdoo-
John Y. Brown further looks like a fool in that the owners of the Spirits of St. Louis took a % of future television revenues -
to take their morbid franchise out of consideration for entering into the NBA (along with Ind., SA, Den, NY Nets)
which is now at about $300 million and counting till perpetuity.