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OfflineBasilides
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Team names
    #5713954 - 06/05/06 04:52 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

What's with some NBA team names? It seems some them make no sense at all.

The Clippers

The Pacers

The Lakers

What's a Clipper? What's a Pacer, and what's a Laker?

I've always wondered who exactly came up with these names when share holders were voting on a name for the franchise.


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Re: Team names [Re: Basilides]
    #5714533 - 06/05/06 11:23 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Clippers are the really fast boats that used to dock in LA all the time.

Lakers is from when the team was orignally in Minnesota, and it makes alot more sense for a Minnesota team. They have like, one lake in California. WTF?

Theres alot that are stupid. Utah Jazz, when I think its illegal to play jazz in Utah, but it was orignally the New Orleans team. St. Louis Rams? There are no rams in St. Louis....


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Re: Team names [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5714680 - 06/05/06 12:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Madtowntripper said:
St. Louis Rams? There are no rams in St. Louis....



there aren't lions in detroit, or bengals in Cincinatti
or giants in New York or San Fran
there are no Pirates in Oakland or Pittsburgh
no cavaliers in cleveland
no jaguars in jacksonville

those mascots have nothing to do with the locale, they're just cool thingies, i guess

the L.A. Dodgers were originally the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers


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Re: Team names [Re: Basilides]
    #5714690 - 06/05/06 12:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Indiana..Indianapolis 500..pace car...pacers?

No guesses for the other two.


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Re: Team names [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5714775 - 06/05/06 12:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

i've always thought the pacers were something like that


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Re: Team names [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5715988 - 06/05/06 05:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Ah, bingo. I thought the Pacers name had something to do with racing.

It's always funny when they let the fans pick a name for a franchise. You get teams like the "Raptors" and the "Bobcats"


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Re: Team names [Re: Pat Bateman, VP]
    #5716046 - 06/05/06 06:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

I le magnifique said:
Quote:

Madtowntripper said:
St. Louis Rams? There are no rams in St. Louis....



there aren't lions in detroit, or bengals in Cincinatti
or giants in New York or San Fran
there are no Pirates in Oakland or Pittsburgh
no cavaliers in cleveland
no jaguars in jacksonville

those mascots have nothing to do with the locale, they're just cool thingies, i guess

the L.A. Dodgers were originally the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers




Seahawks in Seattle ... HAWK HAWK ... ..

What about the Seattle SuperSonics ... Whats a SuperSonic?


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Re: Team names [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
    #5716117 - 06/05/06 06:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

For awhile they were simply the Seattle Sonics


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Re: Team names [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
    #5716399 - 06/05/06 07:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

supersonic would be faster than the speed of soundwaves. dont they make alot of airplanes in seattle (boeing)?


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Re: Team names [Re: Vvellum]
    #5716416 - 06/05/06 07:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

i dunno if they do, but that would make a certain amount of sense


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Re: Team names [Re: Pat Bateman, VP]
    #5717027 - 06/05/06 10:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yes, yes they do

2 gold stars for you


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Edited by cApTaInCrAp (06/05/06 10:03 PM)


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Re: Team names [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
    #5717117 - 06/05/06 10:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

sweet

i can smoke the glue and get fuxxored


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Re: Team names [Re: Pat Bateman, VP]
    #5720494 - 06/06/06 08:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

what about the Cavaliers? way to go cleveland.. name your team after a group of people who failed and who lost


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Re: Team names [Re: Banez]
    #5720691 - 06/06/06 09:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

UVA is the same

i think being a cavalier is in part not caring you failed, just chillin with your fly-ass goatee and sweet pimp hat while sellin' bitches


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No, says the man in Moscow; it belongs to everyone.

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Re: Team names [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5720812 - 06/06/06 09:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
Indiana..Indianapolis 500..pace car...pacers?






That be it.

Like the pace car sets the pace of the race (out in front) the Pacers would set the pace of the league, or in first place with everybody else behind them.


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Re: Team names [Re: Basilides]
    #5723648 - 06/07/06 05:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Basilides said:
The Lakers

what's a Laker?





LA Lakers are the old Minneapolis Lakers, like "Minnesota: the land of 10,000 lakes".


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