Quote Originally Posted by Laramie View Post
Breaking News: Arizona Coyotes to move to Salt Lake City after being sold to Utah Jazz owners.

Salt Lake City has a MSA population 1,267,864 with growth of 10,000 in three years moving to the NHL as well as having an NBA team that will share the same building--Delta Center.

What are the chances of this being a success?
This is now the 3rd sports team the guy has bought in around three years, so it is not exactly clear if he is highly interested in all three sports, or just thinks of sports teams as a good investment. Plus the Jazz being the longest of his purchases is not exactly inspiring, their payroll has dropped relative to the rest of the league every year he has owned them, and not exactly following text book rebuilding strategies either. Another potential issue is there are some claims that metros need around 1 million people per major sport team to support them well, so having NBA and NHL might be pushing it.