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J-Spoon
Joined: 31 Jan 2009 Posts: 6827
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Posted: 10/13/17 9:36 pm ::: |
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good bye little guards (only kind of serious with trades below, but don't hate it.)
Plum and #13 to Seattle for #5
Jefferson to NY for Boyd and L. Allen
Vegas drafts Wilson #1 and Deshields #5
Vegas
Boyd/L. Allen
McBride/Colson
Deshields/A. Montgomery or Hamby or Coffey (2 of the 3)
Wilson/Burdick/Dos Santos
Harrison/Alexander
Seems like a Laimbeer kind of team
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WNBA 09
Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 12606 Location: Dallas , Texas
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Posted: 10/13/17 10:20 pm ::: |
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Id been hearing Katie smith. Maybe they meant she will be NYs next head coach! Congrats either way
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tfan
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Libra_Girl
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Posted: 10/13/17 10:51 pm ::: |
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I feel for the Stars fans esp the local fans that loved going to the home games.
Congrats Vegas on getting a team hope you treat them well.
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WNBA 09
Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 12606 Location: Dallas , Texas
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Posted: 10/13/17 11:17 pm ::: |
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Las Vegas Thrill!
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J-Spoon
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Posted: 10/13/17 11:27 pm ::: |
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J-Spoon wrote: |
I could also see it being something like
The Thrill
The Luck
The Oasis
The Gold
The Gamble
The Suite
The Chance
The Hope |
I've got the Thrill on my legitimate names list as well.
But kind of surprised no one is on board with the Las Vegas Nomi Malones.
If the MGM Grand is involved it will be
The Las Vegas Grand
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RavenDog
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Richyyy
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Posted: 10/14/17 2:18 am ::: |
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J-Spoon wrote: |
If the MGM Grand is involved it will be
The Las Vegas Grand |
Then they could be the Lions (or Lionesses) after the lion that roars at the start of MGM movies.
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But kind of surprised no one is on board with the Las Vegas Nomi Malones. |
If they were going that direction they'd surely just call them the Las Vegas Showgirls. Fewer copyright question marks. |
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Michelle89
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Posted: 10/14/17 5:01 am ::: |
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IMO getting Bill as the new headcoach and GM is a sign that they are serious about this team.
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Smoovie
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Posted: 10/14/17 5:09 am ::: |
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toad455
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RavenDog
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Queenie
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Posted: 10/14/17 7:57 am ::: |
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Richyyy wrote: |
Then they could be the Lions (or Lionesses) after the lion that roars at the start of MGM movies.
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Thought about that too, but does that mean they have to bring in Congreaves or Leedham for the staff?
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67109 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 10/14/17 9:53 am ::: |
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San Antonio All Time leaders
Games
301 Sophia Young
223 Becky Hammon
218 Jayne Appel
156 Danielle Robinson
155 Danielle Adams
154 Kayla Alexander
150 Jia Perkins
145 Ruth Riley
131 Helen Darling
128 Vickie Johnson
Points
4300 Sophia Young
3474 Becky Hammon
1863 Jia Perkins
1771 Danielle Adams
1597 Danielle Robinson
1567 Kayla McBride
1221 Marie Ferdinand
997 Vickie Johnson
922 Shannon Johnson
886 Jayne Appel
Rebounds
1807 Sophia Young
1326 Jayne Appel
659 Danielle Adams
589 Becky Hammon
588 Vickie Johnson
571 Ruth Riley
480 Kayla Alexander
448 Jia Perkins
431 Danielle Robinson
420 Adrienne Goodson
Assists
1133 Becky Hammon
769 Danielle Robinson
554 Sophia Young
418 Vickie Johnson
411 Shannon Johnson
320 Jayne Appel
304 Helen Darling
263 Jia Perkins
237 Sydney Colson
234 Moriah Jefferson
Steals
477 Sophia Young
249 Jia Perkins
244 Becky Hammon
185 Danielle Robinson
155 Marie Ferdinand
154 Shannon Johnson
137 Jayne Appel
128 Helen Darling
114 Kayla McBride
104 Vickie Johnson
Blocks
194 Jayne Appel
188 Ruth Riley
148 Margo Dydek
111 Sophia Young
96 Danielle Adams
78 Kayla Alexander
78 Katie Feenstra
49 Becky Hammon
45 Erin Perperoglou
44 Jia Perkins
44 Ann Wauters
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dtsnms
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Posted: 10/14/17 10:06 am ::: |
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Aren't the Mandalay, MGM, and the T-Mobile all owned by MGM? |
Yes they are.
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dtsnms
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Posted: 10/14/17 10:08 am ::: |
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tfan wrote: |
I am gonna guess the Orleans Casino is the buyer. They have had other sports teams in their arena - a minor league hockey team, arena football team and lingerie football team. |
Not what I hear.
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Shades
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Posted: 10/14/17 11:44 am ::: |
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Sophia Young, best Stars draft pick ever. Even better than the #2 pick in 2007.
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Angus24
Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 686 Location: South Dakota
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Posted: 10/14/17 12:53 pm ::: |
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Maybe Bill will keep Riley, she played for him in Detroit when they won a championship. Don't know if she has any coaching skills. Wonder what her contract with SAS was for for, maybe just one year same as VJ. The buyer must have offered Bill some big bucks and you would think there must be some other connection there as well unless Bill was letting it be known he was looking for a change. Is there a big enough fan base in Vegas to support a WNBA team in the summer with NBA summer stuff going on there at the same time?
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SDHoops
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Queenie
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tfan
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Posted: 10/14/17 4:10 pm ::: |
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Las Vegas is shown as being the 29th largest metropolitan area in the US.
That puts it ahead of Indianapolis (#34) and Hartford (using that for the Sun) (#47). And there is the tourism factor and casino factor. Smallest WNBA metro area ever was Tulsa (#55) followed by Salt Lake City (#48 ).
Hope it is a casino-with-a-small-arena deal like the Sun where they comp gamblers with free tickets, versus playing in the NBA-sized T-Mobile arena or MGM Grand arena.
Las Vegas power brokers unaware of WNBA team’s move to valley
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MGM CEO Jim Murren said in an October 2016 interview that he was pursuing an NBA team that he could move to Las Vegas to join the NHL’s Golden Knights as anchor tenants at T-Mobile. |
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pilight
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Posted: 10/14/17 7:45 pm ::: |
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San Antonio All Time coaches
161-213 Dan Hughes
14-20 Sandy Brondello
9-13 Shell Dailey
8-26 Vickie Johnson
6-16 Candi Harvey
6-18 Dee Brown
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tfan
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Posted: 10/14/17 8:07 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
San Antonio All Time coaches
161-213 Dan Hughes
14-20 Sandy Brondello
9-13 Shell Dailey
8-26 Vickie Johnson
6-16 Candi Harvey
6-18 Dee Brown |
A lot of losing, but only one #1 pick:
#1 2017 Kelsey Plum
#2 2016 Moriah Jefferson
#3 2014 Kayla McBride
#2 2007 traded for Becky Hammon
#4 2006 Sophia Young
#4 2005 Kendra Wecker
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josephkramer44
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Posted: 10/14/17 9:26 pm ::: |
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I'm surprised a NBA franchise is divesting itself from the WNBA. That is not the greatest sign. Las Vegas should be a decent place for a franchise. Casinos will buy all the tickets and hand them out as door prizes and casino perks. As long as someone pays for the tickets it makes financial sense. However the team will need to play near the Strip for that model to work. Good luck to them!
Will this be the only shakeup this off season? Atlanta and Dallas both had disastrous seasons (the reasons why have been discussed on this forum many times) and were already operating on thin margins. They are not mentioned much, but the Chicago franchise has serious issues as well. Overhead costs and operating expenses and government taxes are all significantly higher in Illinois than in the rest of middle America, making the cost of doing business there exceptionally high. The Stars moving does help make a mockery of Borders' claims of amazing success during her tenure though. Healthy successful franchises generally speaking don't relocate.
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