Originally Posted by
darthur
I haven't read the Bill Simmons article yet, but the negative publicity seemed totally off-base to me. No NBA players were involved at all and if there was a connection to NBA fans in particular, nobody mentioned it.
The NBA black eye article from the Winston-Salem Journal even makes the following comments:
- The NBA brought 85,000 people to Las Vegas
- The weekend also coincided with the Chinese New Year and President's Day, and the total number of out-of-town people was 302,000.
So was the NBA even the biggest draw that weekend? And if not, how can you possibly blame them for an increase in arrests? (if there even was an increase - I haven't seen the baseline anywhere).