What's your order of where you'd want to play?

[eja117]

Let's say you're a senior and likely to be the top pick in the draft and your agent says "I think I can steer you anywhere you want to play. It will take some doing but I think it can be done. I've worked really hard with Eli Manning's agent and John Elway and his old agent and I'm pretty sure I can get this done"

Where do you go with your general understanding of the NBA and geography?

I think I got

1 Boston
2 NYC
3 Brooklyn
4 Chicago
5 Minnesotta
6 Detroit
7 Philly
8 Denver
9 Milwaukee
10 Toronto
11 Orlando
12 Portland
13 Cleveland
14 Charlotte
15 LA Lakers
16 LA Clippers
17 Miami
18 Washington DC
19 Utah
20 Phoenix
21 Indiana
22 Hotlanta
23 OKC
24 This is right around the place I start thinking of an exit strategy like "Can you get me to maybe Lietuvos Rytas or a team in Rome?"

25 Memphis
26 San Antonio
27 Sacramento
28 Houston
29 Dallas
30 Golden State
31 New Orleans

[Roadrunner]

In no order:

>Weather
>Taxes
>Winning

[freshnthehouse]

There are so many variables that go into it. RR brings up a good point about taxes. when you make that much money, playing in a state with no income tax is a big deal. and i'd be willing to live in a city that's not my cup of tea if it were for an awesome franchise with a coach i really liked.

Just judging the cities themselves, the southern cities (atl, charlotte, memphis, dallas, houston, etc) would prolly be low on my list. I don't like the heat. but i guess the nba season misses the hottest months, so it's not like you'd have to stay there in july and august.

pretty much any city is gonna be fun if you are a young man with a ton of money. i'd really want to go somewhere where i really liked/respected the coach and we had a chance to win for a long time. i'd also love to play somewhere with real passionate fans like Golden State, Portland, Boston, New York, etc.