What should be the name of the next new NBA team, what city should it be in?

My vote is Sin City Aces, AND we should definitely have topless cheer leaders,  serious home court advantage.

Lustfully naughty
Nico V

As long as you are one of them, Nico, I vote for the Sin City Aces.  And i will play ball(s) on your luscious court anyway anytime.  You rock, Nico!

Nico,

After the Tim Donaghy scandal in 2006, I doubt David Stern would EVER allow an NBA team to be based anywhere in Nevada. And with the current economic situation, I think the NBA is concentrating more on the financial health of its smaller-market franchises (and that of the WNBA) than worrying about expansoion anytime soon. But I do like your suggested name!

The topless dance squad would be a nice idea too, if Vegas (or Reno) ever did get a team. Perhaps the Raptors could try that up in Toronto! You may be too young to remember the old American Basketball Association (1967-1976) which once had a franchise in the Miami area called simply "The Floridians". They had "ball girls" dressed in very skimpy string bikinis (closest thing to topless ever seen to date). Of course it WAS the late 1960s/early 1970s and that was before the rise of the ultra right-wing "Puritan-esque" corporate prudes, which would likely prohibit any such outfits today. A player from that era has said that the married guys on the teams would always sit well away from those ball girls if the game happened to be televised, but vie for the seats on the bench closest to those gals if it wasn't (as most regular-season ABA contests weren't on TV in that era).

Regards,
Speed Racer

They played at the Santa Fe, when they still had an ice rink.  The game was more like an organized fight on ice, but they had cheerleaders of sort.  I can't remember the team name, but I remember that those girls were hot, and drew far more fans than the team.

There is still a hockey team in Vegas, The Wranglers, a minor league farm team of Calgary.  They play at The Orleans.  Really affordable prices.

They have some guy in a big goofy animal suit.  The cheerleader chicks at the other game were WAY hotter.

Sarah Palin should have enough clout to get this deal done. It's about time Alaska had a professional sports team.

It might have been the Thunder of first the WCHL and then the ECHL.

Alaska does have a pro sport team, albeit is a minor leagus hockey team.  The Anchorage Aces of the ECHL, play in Las Vegas many times during the season.

...which stands for the International Hockey League.  (I loved that league, I saw games played in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Cincinnati, Detroit, Phoenix, and Indianapolis. back when I traveled a lot on business.)  The Thunder played their games at the Thomas & Mack Center.  The IHL folded in 2000, after being in existance since 1947.

That team that played at the old Santa Fe Station ice rink was a "semi-pro" team.  That is, the players were paid about $50 a game, and all had day jobs as their primary means of support.  Their team name escapes me.

I knew about the IHL and all that, watched the Gulls play many many times.

For some reason, I thought when the WCHL was formed the team name for LV was the Thunder.  But, I was incorrect.

Thanks for clearing that up.