>Team is called Minneapolis Lakers >makes sense since MN

Lakers have been in LA for almost 70 years, not the best team to try and make a point in this Hans

>>74665980
Teams gotta make sense with geographical locations that correspond
San Jose Earthquakes - California earthquake hell
Orlando Magic - DISNEY WORLD
Arizona Diamondbacks - Desert
Oklahoma City Thunder - Tornadoes and shit
Arizona Coyotes - Coyotes in desert or people smuggler
some make no sense like
Utah Jazz
Real Salt Lake
Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

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yes, we should try to be more like the glorious bundesliga

>>74665980
The Houston Oilers moved to Tennesse where there is no oil, the Lakers moved to LA where there are no lakes, and the Jazz moved to Utah where they don't allow dancing.

Yes, we've all seen the opening to Baseketball.

Defend the Colts moving to Indianapolis then

Also the countless cases of Holding a city and its fanbase hostage like "lol pay up for the New stadium or we'll take our business elsewhere"

How is this allowed?

>>74666092
whoosh

It was never about lack of variety among the Champions each year. It's about Teams selling out to the highest bidder and throwing Tradition and loyalty to one's hometown to the wind

>>74665980
1. Los Angeles has a particular habit of not bothering to change the names of the team they import from elsewhere; Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Rams, Raiders, Chargers, etc.

2. Franchises aren't moved around without rhyme or reason. Back in the day when professional sports were still wholly northeastern and mideastern in region, teams moved out of overly cramped urban areas thanks to lack of attendance and revenue and sought untapped markets in growing southern and western cities. Sometimes the incumbent markets WEREN'T drained and they still moved on because they saw more lucrative profits waiting elsewhere.

3. These days, if a franchise moves, it's because of extortion to one degree or another. There isn't going to be a miraculous 'boom town' that will become one of the great cities anymore- a franchise will move to what feels like a smaller market simply because said market will PAY THROUGH THEIR GODDAMNED NOSE for a professional franchise to represent them.

4. Tradition and Loyalty DO exist, but it's not a constant. Sometimes you just get plagued by undesireable owners, or the team sucks so badly they kill off the loyalty. Sometimes a franchise simply becomes a vagabond moving from one location to another because they don't stick around long enough to inspire a tradition.

>>74666140
my point is that your domestic league is garbage lol. the franchise system isn't ideal, but it allows for a much better league in terms of enjoyment and parity.

sorry that you have to lash out at other countries online because your team didn't pay enough to win the league every year.

>>74666079
>Jazz
kept the name after they moved from New Orleans

>Real Salt Lake
Trying to be like Yuropoors

>Clippers
A clipper is a type of small boat. Makes sense from their San Diego days, but LA also has a big enough water sports/boating community in it's own right

>Angels

Legal loophole where in order for the Angels to play at their current stadium, "Anaheim" has to be in the official name. The owners wanted the team to be "Los Angeles" only, but they had to compromise.

>>74666092
you should try to check some European basketball leagues, like Lithuania, Greece, Spain, Slovenia, or the "European" Israel

>>74666100
Nobody but you has seen that film

>>74666119
>How is this allowed?

Here are the reasons;

1. Unlike established nations in Europe, who were fully developed and largely set in stone when Sports Clubs came into existance, much less Professionalism, America was still a vastly and comparatively undeveloped and large area when Professional Sports first arrived in the 1870's. Franchises and leagues started off in the northeast and expended to the midwest, and after a time went to the west coast and then to the south. Progress and growth rendered a whole solid fraction of the sports landscape to be devoid of Tradition, especially when Top Leagues started outmuscleing the smaller outfits in a particular region.

2. Professionalism overcame Amateurism to such an extent that even College Sports are a Multi-Billion dollar industry endorsing indentured servitude. As such, profit is the allmighty factor. Unlike Europe, already developed and barricaded, America is simply too large and with too many openings to effectively 'FORCE' owners to remain in one spot should they wish to move on.

>>74666225
>Bundesliga is garbage
By what metric? Attendance? Nope. International performance, such as Champions League? Nope. Talents emerging from the Bundesliga? Plenty to go around.
I wasn't referring to parity but rather the lack of tradition. Just look at Teams like the Titans. Completely artificial, what would've been the harm of building an actual legqcy in Houston? Dodn't they have Moon, one of the besten QBs of his time?

>>74666291
Fuck, what a typofest. Anyway, you get what I'm saying.

>>74666291
plenty of teams still have incredible legacies. the packers, bears, eagles, and the cardinals have been playing since the 1930s.

don't you have a team sponsored by a fucking energy drink company in your league? where's the history in that?

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los angeles has amazing lakes. more amazing than minnesota.

>>74666079
Real salt lake because it's really salty to drink

>>74666288 pretty much answered OP's questions. different histories, different league systems, different monetization schemes

>>74669494
>lake oroville
a) is not near LA
b) plenty of water there now