{"id":194631,"date":"2024-07-18T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/?p=194631"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:44:27","slug":"i-feel-confident-saying-theres-a-0-chance-of-the-sixers-moving-to-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2024\/07\/i-feel-confident-saying-theres-a-0-chance-of-the-sixers-moving-to-new-jersey.html","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Confident Saying There’s a 0% Chance of the Sixers Moving to New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Bergeron at ROI-NJ.com wrote this in a story titled\u00a0N.J. making serious push to lure Sixers to new arena in Camden<\/a> –<\/em><\/p>\n

The state of New Jersey is making a serious push to convince the\u00a0Philadelphia 76ers\u00a0to move to New Jersey and into a new arena that would be built in Camden, four people familiar with the discussions confirmed to ROI-NJ.<\/em><\/p>\n

Discussions between top state officials and leaders from\u00a0Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment\u00a0(which owns the team) have been ongoing for the last two months, the sources said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The sources indicated that talks have picked up recently, in part because HBSE\u2019s efforts to build a new arena in Center City Philadelphia have hit repeated roadblocks, despite the fact that the owners have indicated they would self-finance the $1.3 billion proposed project.<\/em><\/p>\n

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One source put it this way: \u201cMaybe it\u2019s a long shot, but sometimes long shots pay off in a big way.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah? I don’t see it happening. I feel confident in saying that there’s a 0% chance the Sixers move to New Jersey. If they do, I’ll quit Crossing Broad<\/em> and go work at the Aramingo Avenue Wawa. Overnight shift.<\/p>\n

My reasoning is twofold. One, we have David Adelman on the record saying the Sixers won’t go to New Jersey:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI promise you that. Josh (Harris), David (Blitzer), and I have said from day one that this is a Philadelphia team and it\u2019s not moving to New Jersey.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two, the biggest Sixers fan in the Commonwealth also runs the Commonwealth. That’s Governor Josh Shapiro, who I’m 99% sure had a basketball court at his election night headquarters. There is no way that Shapiro will allow the Sixers to leave Pennsylvania while he’s in Harrisburg. Not a chance, based on what he told us last summer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ll just say as a Governor, as a huge Sixers fan, I want to make sure the Sixers are here for a good, long while, and that they have a great facility to play in.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the Market Street arena plan is shot down, and New Jersey actually becomes a real threat, he’d step in and squash it.<\/p>\n

He’d “shut that shit down<\/em>,” as Negan from\u00a0The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>once said:<\/p>\n