What goes on in Virginia???

Lord Scion

Lord Scion

Quality Games
Supporter
Joined
Oct 22, 2012
Messages
17,164
Reputation
13,071
Daps
81,437
Bout to neg errbody in here talking reckless about my state :to:

Peep these stats
The 25 Cities Where Millennials Are Moving

The cities millennials are moving to, and peep #1 :beli:

We're getting gentrified as all hell, especially Norfolk with these weird ass projects they're doing and shyt. Turning 4 lane roads into 2 lanes and adding bike lanes and shyt. Traffic is already shytty, but hey let's make it worse.
:skip:
 
V

VirginiaSlim75

Pro
Joined
Jan 11, 2017
Messages
410
Reputation
70
Daps
1,540
You never know how much you love a place until you leave. I moved to Maryland about 5 years ago and I'm trying to find out how to make my way back to VA.
 
GPBear

GPBear

The Tape Crusader
Joined
Mar 9, 2015
Messages
20,114
Reputation
4,760
Daps
67,421
Reppin
Bay-to-PDX
L&HH said:
VA is whack if it ain't Nova. Bars/clubs close at 1:30 and shyt. They do have some great amusement parks, water parks, resorts and shyt like that.
Click to expand...
YFj1ObG.gif

:picard:
:scust::hhh::gucci:
 
chiefdogg

chiefdogg

Superstar
Joined
Jul 8, 2012
Messages
6,534
Reputation
1,016
Daps
15,787
Reppin
NULL
Will an NBA team come to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront? SB Nation says it could happen
57f2d754055e3.image.png

57f2904eac570.image.jpg

The door to NBA expansion, which has been slammed shut for years, opened slightly recently when commissioner Adam Silver said that expansion by two teams to 32 is "inevitable."

"I think it's just a question of when the right time is to seriously start thinking about expansion," Silver said in an interview with The Players' Tribune. "I don't want to put a precise timeline on it, but it's inevitable at some point we'll start looking at growth of franchises."

SB Nation, a sports Web site, thinks Virginia Beach has a legitimate shot at landing one of those two franchises, and had some fun with the subject on Wednesday when it published a mock expansion draft that included Seattle and Virginia Beach.

The Beach would have a pretty intriguing team. The starting five: guards Tim Hardaway Jr. (New York Knicks) and George Hill (Sacramento Kings); forwards C.J. Miles (Toronto Raptors) and Taj Gibson (Minnesota Timberwolves) and center Robin Lopez (Chicago Bulls).

But before you pull out your credit card to order season tickets, here's a reality check: Virginia Beach remains a long shot for an NBA franchise.

United States Management, a private group, has plans to build an 18,000-seat arena at the Oceanfront. But the group has yet to close on a loan to finance the arena, and the city's deadline is less than a month away.

The arena would also need an $80 million upgrade to meet NBA standards, and the terms of the deal with United States Management would need to be re-negotiated. USM is slated to receive most of the revenue, from concessions to fees for suites, that an NBA team would need.

It's also questionable, as I noted a few months ago, as to whether the Oceanfront is a suitable site for a team that would need to draw fans from all over Hampton Roads.

Nor is the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metro area, as Hampton Roads is known nationally, the most coveted of expansion markets.

SB Nation rated Hampton Roads fourth among the top expansion candidates, behind Seattle, Mexico City and Louisville. I agree that Seattle and Mexico City are the favorites, but believe Kansas City ought to be third instead of Louisville.

Seattle is a shoe-in for the first expansion franchise. It has a metropolitan area population of 3.8 million that is growing quickly, a ton of major corporations and is a great sports town.


Seattle lost its NBA team, the SuperSonics, to Oklahoma City in 2008. Seattle officials recently announced they've cut a deal with the Oak View Group, a Los Angeles-based company that has advised Norfolk Mayor Kenny Alexander on options for expanding Scope, to do a $564 million renovation of its downtown arena.

Silver said that Seattle is "on a shortlist of cities we'll look at."

Mexico City has a 5-year-old arena, and with a metropolitan area population of 21 million, is larger than the New York City area. As the Hispanic population of the United States continues to increase, a team in Mexico City could entice millions of Hispanic-Americans to follow the NBA more closely.

Louisville doesn't seem like a great relocation candidate. There's no more rabid a basketball state than Kentucky, and the city has a fantastic arena in the KFC Yum! Center (I'm not making that up; that's the name of the arena).

Yet with less than 1.3 million people, Louisville is the nation's 44th-largest metro area. The University of Louisville also leases the downtown arena, and would not only compete for fans, the ACC school would also need to agree to modify its lease.

With Indianapolis less than two hours to the north, the Indiana Pacers surely would oppose an expansion team in Louisville.

Hampton Roads is 37th nationally with a population of 1.7 million people, and is the nation's third-largest region without a major sports team. There is little competition for the sport dollar in the region.

Yet Kansas City appears to me to be a more likely expansion candidate than the Beach. KC has 2.1 million people and a 19,000-seat arena situated in a convenient downtown location.

Regardless of what cities the NBA eventually chooses, the real winners here will be the 30 existing ownership groups. Expansion franchises are expected to cost around $1 billion, and that money would be divided among the owners.

That's about $66 million per team.

Will an NBA team come to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront? SB Nation says it could happen
 
Clark Griswold

Clark Griswold

Banned
Joined
May 16, 2016
Messages
1,609
Reputation
-750
Daps
7,649
I went to VA Beach a few years ago for the entire summer thinking it was going to be off the hook how cats was talking about it back in the day... that place is wack as hell... nothing but bamma niccas, crakkkas, the military, and old strip malls. All the clubs are ratchet except for the hole in the wall clubs on the beach and the beach was dead... night and day... on the 4th of July.
 
chiefdogg

chiefdogg

Superstar
Joined
Jul 8, 2012
Messages
6,534
Reputation
1,016
Daps
15,787
Reppin
NULL
Heathcliff said:
I went to VA Beach a few years ago for the entire summer thinking it was going to be off the hook how cats was talking about it back in the day... that place is wack as hell... nothing but bamma niccas, crakkkas, the military, and old strip malls. All the clubs are ratchet except for the hole in the wall clubs on the beach and the beach was dead... night and day... on the 4th of July.
Click to expand...
From my understanding the old conservatives that live in Va Beach want to keep it like that. They just voted no to have the light rail extended to the Beach.
 
gldnone913

gldnone913

Integrity and Consistency
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
6,354
Reputation
605
Daps
19,410
Reppin
VA
All my VA folks on here :blessed:

VA is country as shyt. Been here my whole life pretty much. Grew up in the boonies, went to school in the Hampton Roads area, moved to NOVA after college. I agree though - the 7 cities, Richmond and NOVA are safe for black folks. Even in NOVA, anything south of Woodbridge is like the heart of the Confederacy. shyt real crazy. Trying to move back down to the 757...every time I'm down there it feels like home :mjcry:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top