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Are The Warriors Las Vegas Next Target After Oakland A’s Relocation?
The City of Oakland finds itself in the place of losing The Oakland A’s because it didn’t take MLB deadlines to build a ballpark seriously. While the A’s were waiting for Oakland to establish a tax increment financing zone, the City of Oakland changed course and sought grants and upped the cost to the A’s. Now, as the A’s prepare to relocate to Las Vegas, John Ralston, Nevada Independent Editor, tweeted a thought that made me shake:
I’m having a lazy Friday afternoon. setting off people on the A’s stadium. So many humor-impaired, highly educated people! My Dad had a PhD AND a great sense of humor, FYI. (We have the Raiders and A’s, coming for the Warriors next, folks!) What’s everyone else up to?
Now, there are two ways to take that, but considering the timing of the tweet, I picked the later choice. That someone, some group in Las Vegas, is going to go after the Golden State Warriors as a relocation objective. Now, the question is, who might that be? The answer was provided at the Oak View Group’s presentation at the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance 2023 Perspective event.
The plan presented by Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke (who I recall from his effort to bring the NFL to Downtown Los Angeles), is to build a $10 billion sports campus resort that contains an NBA-ready arena of 20,000 seats. The Oak View Group is said to want either an expansion NBA team or an existing. But my bet is that they’re going to need as big a pop as possible to pay off the private bond issues, and to get that, what better NBA team to target than the Golden State Warriors?
And lest you think I’m presenting a pipe-dream, let me report that former Raiders President Marc Badain and Joe Lacob do talk and have a terrific relationship. They were most recently spotted July 8th. 2021 in Las Vegas, and for the Vegas Magazine Cover Party with Host Andra Day at The h.wood Group’s Grand Opening of Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas.
Delilah Las Vegas is Sin City’s version of what Vanity Fair described as the “Unofficial Sanctuary for the Rich and Famous”. Thus, it’s logical to assume what the Oak View Group have planned won’t be cheap, and so they need some team that’s going to be a seimic-level draw for sports tourists. The bet here is they’re going after the Golden State Warriors.
Moreover, with the Brightline high-speed rail station to be right next door, the sports campus they’re planning will be one of the most visited sports tourism destinations in the World when it and the trains are operational. Don’t think Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President Steven Hill doesn’t have his fingerprints on the Oak View Group’s plans, either. He’s a smooth economic planner and a crafty customer who’s vision for Las Vegas’ economy has paid dividends more often than not.
And why not the Warriors? Like the Oakland A’s, the Warriors are vulnerable: a portion of it’s fan base is leaving for Las Vegas. Overall, federal, state, and local government response to the Pandemic has been terrible, as the GOP blocks Democrats from fully funding programs to help those in need, the ranks on the streets increase.
San Francisco has not as of this writing inacted any program to fix the problem of helping small businesses be more solvent and secure, yet it can. So, until it does, it’s fair to say the possibility that the Warriors could move to Las Vegas after leaving Oakland only four years ago, is very real. And it’s real because of what the Oak View Group is doing.
And Oakland has completely forgot that good economic development is about having a vision, so scratch my City off the short list for recapturing the Warriors team once stolen from it.
In closing, Jon Ralston’s crazy like a Las Vegas Fox, and I see why. Don’t discount the Warriors move to Las Vegas as crazy. It’s a good bet.
Stay tuned.
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