Quote Originally Posted by artds View Post
There are certainly benefits to having a single arena. They just have to be balances against the detriments to having a single arena. There are reasons most cities don't do this, and having a sprawled population like metro Detroit does is one of them.



Not necessarily. A metro-Detroit family who decides to go watch a sporting event on a given weekend might very well choose between seeing the Pistons play on Friday or the Red Wings play in Sunday. But by keeping the Pistons in OC, you tap a different market, albeit with some [[beneficial) overlap.
Sure there are some benefits, but they don't outweigh the costs of upkeep and construction of two buildings.

If they are in different "markets," as you put it, then they aren't competing for the same entertainment dollars. Competing for the money means that, if there are two games on the same night, who will you go see?