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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4180447" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>At the end of the day, a nicer stadium also means that the team will have to pay a larger fee to the city for the use of the stadium, its grounds, and its parking, regardless of attendance. They don&#039;t just hang out for free. They pay for its use for every practice, every game, every event. More bigger means more other stuff can be here, like big rodeos, conventions, big concerts, etc... Things that the BOK Center and other state&#039;s superior facilities get over the current arena. Didn&#039;t we lose a major rodeo a few years back? Things we can&#039;t host anymore because the events look for larger centers or better made for the purpose. We don&#039;t have the cox convention center either anymore, so this new stadium would be pulling double duty. Its not just a palace we build for the thunder, and the money made isn&#039;t exclusively from the basketball tickets/tax revenue.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 4180447, member: 35036"] At the end of the day, a nicer stadium also means that the team will have to pay a larger fee to the city for the use of the stadium, its grounds, and its parking, regardless of attendance. They don't just hang out for free. They pay for its use for every practice, every game, every event. More bigger means more other stuff can be here, like big rodeos, conventions, big concerts, etc... Things that the BOK Center and other state's superior facilities get over the current arena. Didn't we lose a major rodeo a few years back? Things we can't host anymore because the events look for larger centers or better made for the purpose. We don't have the cox convention center either anymore, so this new stadium would be pulling double duty. Its not just a palace we build for the thunder, and the money made isn't exclusively from the basketball tickets/tax revenue. [/QUOTE]

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