Should Las Vegas have an NBA team

Since the start of the term we have been writing our own arguments. I did should Las Vegas have an NBA team. This is my writing.


I strongly believe that Las Vegas should NOT have an NBA team because;

As a result of low population, there would be no point in Las Vegas having an NBA franchise.

The Utah Jazz are housed under Nevada so you can have an NBA star from Las Vegas and play in a Tier 1 team.

The league would need to draft another 15 players which is another unnecessary fuss.

Las Vegas has a population of 640,000. Most places with decent NBA teams have populations of 4 million or more. If Las Vegas wants to make more money they will need fans to go to games and buy merchandise. This means lots of people need to be employed to manage the franchise; eg: Cleaners, organisers etc.

The Utah Jazz are neighbours to Nevada which is where Las Vegas is. Players from Wyoming get put into the Jazz because they border each other and because Wyoming doesn't have an NBA team. Utah is a decent team and Las Vegas don’t have any prospects.

Las Vegas would need 15 players to start a franchise, thats without staff! Las Vegas has 11 players who were born there, most have retired or have left the USA and played in China, Australia, europe etc. It will be hard to find prospects as they have interests from other teams.


In conclusion, I strongly believe that Las Vegas should not have an NBA team because;



Las Vegas is too small to house an NBA team so people won’t want to watch them play..

The Utah Jazz are neighbours to Nevada so Las Vegas NBA players can play for the Jazz.

It will be hard to have another 15 franchise players to start a team.

West Coast under 13 basketball

On the free-throw line

This year I was selected into the West Coast Under 13 basketball team. We did a trial and all of us got in because we had enough players to have a squad. There is a A team and a development team. We went to Blenheim a few weeks ago, we played 5 games, 2 against each Marlborough and one against Buller. We beat Marlborough Development twice. In one game I scored 32 points. We only just lost to Buller because we were tired. We have a tournament in Greymouth on Sunday then in about 6 weeks we go to Ashburton for South Islands. I am really looking forward to this opportunity.

West Coast Under 12 rugby

My Under 52kg rugby team this year. It is a different group of people

This weekend my West Coast under 12 rugby team travel to Westport to play Buller. I am the oldest in the team. I play lock and it really hurts my ears when I am in the scrum. I have been in this team twice as you may have found out on my all about me section on my blog. 

Basketball

On Monday we had basketball. We haven't won a game because we are in a hard grade. We lost to St Pats and I got 2 points, 1 block, 1 steal and 2 assists. In my 2 points I got a step-back mid-range jump shot. 
It was a hard basketball game but next week we will hopefully get a win. In this picture I am practising my layups.

NBA playoffs

One of my hobby's are basketball, and the NBA Playoffs are a big event in the USA and Canada.

The NBA Playoffs started on the 14th of April. We are now in the second round. The Playoffs start at the first round with 8 teams from the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference, 16 in total. I was going for the OKC Thunder in the first round. But then they got knocked out by the Portland Trail Blazers, the score was 4-1. Because the Thunder got knocked out, I'll go for the Denver Nuggets who play the Trail Blazers. I'm predicting a score of 4-0. Yes a clean sweep. The format is the picture above. I am looking forward to the NBA Finals!

Basketball

My favourite basketball player, Paul George

Next term is another sport after school. Basketball. I live for rugby and basketball. If I play well, I can be selected to represent the West Coast in tournaments. Hopefully I am in a team with my friends. We play on Monday nights. I am so excited.

Rugby This Year

Can you believe that last week I talked about touch rugby. That is a summer sport. Then a week later we are starting rugby training. I am playing for the Blaketown Under 14's this year. We start rugby in 6 weeks. We have a 7's tournament the end of this terms school holidays. I am really excited.

Touch

This week we had our finals for touch. We unfortunately were playing for 3rd and 4th. But we won so we got 3rd. We played Brunner again. The score was 11-2. I managed to score 2 tries. Franklin scored 2 tries, Callum also got 2, Kaleb W got 2, Ollie scored 2 and LeBron scored 1. It was a really good game and I look forward to playing again in 12 months!

Cricket

This week I got into the Grey Main Cricket team to play on Monday at Arthur Fong Park. If we win the tournament we play Buller to see if we go to another national competition. There are 10 players going. I am the opening batter!