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Former player wants arena in Vegas
Updated: December 25, 2013, 1:55 PM ET
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS -- A former NBA player says he wants to build a $1.3 billion arena and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

Las Vegas basketball player and businessman Jackie Robinson announced the project this week.

It's tentatively called the All Net Arena and Resort, and would be built on the site of a former water park near the renovated SLS Las Vegas hotel-casino and the Fontainebleau tower.

Robinson says the project is privately funded. He says construction could begin next spring and be completed in 2016.

The 22,000-seat stadium would be the second new arena on the tourist corridor.

MGM Resorts International is partnering with sports and entertainment promoter AEG on another arena on the other side of the Strip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson_(basketball)

Jackie Robinson (born May 20, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player.

A 6'6" forward from UNLV, Robinson played in the NBA from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics, Detroit Pistons, and Chicago Bulls. He averaged 3.8 points per game in his NBA career and won an NBA Championship with Seattle in 1979.

Jackie Robinson
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Jackie was born in 1955, the same year another Jackie Robinson won his only World Series ring. Twenty-four years later, the former UNLV forward got a ring, too, playing 12 games for NBA champion Seattle Supersonics. But he played just 10 more games in the NBA. Jackie broke neither color barriers nor opposing defenses, with a career scoring average of 3.8 points.
 

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dwill kinda the same with injuries, is there no better trades on the table?
If we could get Lowry back but i doubt he'd want to play for Mchale again. There's no disgruntled pg situations out there. Unless Morey could swindle Eric Gordon outta New Orleans but that being unrealistic.
 

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dwill kinda the same with injuries, is there no better trades on the table?

No...I mean most teams have a pg or rather wait until the draft...he's injury prone also...I mean look at it what team would mortgage there team to an injury prone 29 yo pg on a max contract....Dallas was going after him extra hard during free agency he spurned them and stayed now about the only team I could see wanting him is Houston, maybe Atlanta but I doubt they'd move Teague...and then the dark horse a team like sacremento may....but it would be a package of Isaiah Thomas and Jason Thompson with a heavily protected 1st.

Let's be honest the nets mortgaged there squad around dwill, joe j, and broke Lopez...then gave up the farm for kg and pierce....who at most have 1-2 seasons left and piru is a free agent. And kg may damn we'll retire.
 

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Former player wants arena in Vegas
Updated: December 25, 2013, 1:55 PM ET
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS -- A former NBA player says he wants to build a $1.3 billion arena and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

Las Vegas basketball player and businessman Jackie Robinson announced the project this week.

It's tentatively called the All Net Arena and Resort, and would be built on the site of a former water park near the renovated SLS Las Vegas hotel-casino and the Fontainebleau tower.

Robinson says the project is privately funded. He says construction could begin next spring and be completed in 2016.

The 22,000-seat stadium would be the second new arena on the tourist corridor.

MGM Resorts International is partnering with sports and entertainment promoter AEG on another arena on the other side of the Strip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson_(basketball)

Jackie Robinson (born May 20, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player.

A 6'6" forward from UNLV, Robinson played in the NBA from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics, Detroit Pistons, and Chicago Bulls. He averaged 3.8 points per game in his NBA career and won an NBA Championship with Seattle in 1979.

Jackie Robinson
1979-80

jrobinson_160_080402.jpg

Jackie was born in 1955, the same year another Jackie Robinson won his only World Series ring. Twenty-four years later, the former UNLV forward got a ring, too, playing 12 games for NBA champion Seattle Supersonics. But he played just 10 more games in the NBA. Jackie broke neither color barriers nor opposing defenses, with a career scoring average of 3.8 points.
Is Vegas taking bets on how quickly this guy loses everything? The market there is already over saturated and it can't support an NBA team.
 
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