I don;t really know for sure, with Adelaide aving only 1 million people and a lot are not interested in basketaball. The idea is great but do you creating a team that can compete well in the league. A lot of financial planning etc.

You see Queensland with 3 million people and actually has a lot of other small cities and towns in it, like Townsville and Cairns.

What would a decent town that could construct and hold a stadium be? Do we have one whioh a lot of people would attend?

That would be my question

Keen to buy the sixers! Are you serious? Adelaide could defiently not have two teams in this state, not enough paying basketball fans!

No Way could adelaide support two teams even though current admin have pissed of supporters most would still stick with the sixers,

the new team would struggle both financially and fan wise look at the power even though they are sucessfull they still pull small crowds and are financially unstable

unfortunetly adelaide is a 1 team town and it has been proved with other national sports as well NSL adelaide city and west adelaide 2 teams struggled but now there is 1 team its thriving

so i think a secound team in SA would be a financial nightmare for the owner either that or 1 of the 2 team would fold with in a couple years and lets face it i believe 99% of basketball supporters would rather see the 36ers continue with there proud and succesfull heritage then support a new team with no heritage or history,

all that needs to happen is basa and sixer admin need to sort out there in house stuff quickly and get back on track and if that means the sixers have to become a seperate enitity from basa then so be it, either way i think the government need to get tough now and threated to take back the dome to kick start a much needed cleanout within the basa and sixers structure

well thats my two cents

open for critisim as im sure there will be

There is no way in the world that Adelaide could support to teams it struggles to get the seats filled for the one that they have already. It's a nice idea but I don't think that it could every become a reality because the demand is just not big enough they need to get the support up for the team that they already have before they introduce another one.

I like the theory as it would definately put some competion in the adelaide basketball market for fans money. That would only bring ticket prices and merchandise prices down which would be awesome then attracting more people..It would definately hype basketball in SA as each time the teams played each other the papers would have a field day, TV may even cover it on the news.
Unfortunately I dont think it will ever happen as the sixers would have a deal at the dome and would make a new team build a brand new stadium.

I think that the Government would make the 36ers share the Dome. Plus BASA could probably get more money for naming rights if the dome is used twice as much.

Interstate teams could play in Adelaide two nights in a row against different teams.

There are a lot of pluses but maybe not enough interest in Adelaide for a second team.

I myself like basketball and see the 36ers 3-4 times a year, but my heart just isnt with them. Maybe a new team could satisfy people similar to me looking for a new team. But are there enough like me?

Donny, we've had a long discussion on this very topic before. Let me find you a link.

A 2nd NBL Licence for Adelaide »

Advantages:

- better usage of the Dome for BASA
- including double car parking, double catering, etc
- the showdowns would be huge
- a 2nd team could offer a big discount to anyone who was a member of both teams
- more profile for the sport
- easy to attract marquee NBL events like the All*Star game or Blitz
- visiting teams could play each Adelaide team on successive nights

Disadvantages:

- license would be more effective elsewhere for the NBL (Tasmania, Gold Coast, etc)
- sponsorship could be tough
- slow pick-up of new fans
- if 36ERS follow through with affordable tickets and a better rapport with fans, a new team will have limited opportunities to differentiate themselves

I think it'd have a chance at succeeding, but certainly not guaranteed. Realistically, we're better off hoping that the current club can turn things around and get the Dome full again.

they also said that adelaide couldnt support two afl teams.... that was proved wrong. why couldnt it work for adelaide. and hey how many young players dont get the chance at an nbl team at the moment, but a second team could open a few more doors for up and coming players in the acadamy and in the local abl comp

Yes they said adelaide cant support 2 adelaide teams in the AFL and Port is struggling big time financially INFACT if they didn't get the big time bonus for winning the GF then the year would have been another loss.

The thing is though Port power would get a hand out from the afl if it ever got to that stage and i cant see that with the nbl

I don't think that a new team would be able to survive financially in SA. They might not be able to afford the cost of everything to do with it. I personally don't think theres a need for it either.
Why don't the Northern Territory have a team in anything? I know it's not the best place to live, but NT athletes would surely like a team in the national league of either NBL or AFL.

Tasmania needs to have a team and it would probably succeed there. Just look at when AFL games are played down there. They all get excited and pack out the stadium. Because they don't have an AFL team or NBL team, they are probably starved of spectator sport at National level. The population in Hobart would successfully support an NBL team. Not only that, the next largest town being Launceston is only an hour and half drive from Hobart.