re: This is New Orleans, not LA, or NY, or some other huge market

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Like the title said, this isn't LA or NY, this is New Orleans

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It’s just a perception problem in the NBA. It can be fixed. Will it is another question, but it can IMO.

I think the recent failures of the Knicks and Lakers has created a media echo chamber consisting almost entirely of Knicks and Lakers fans who have started trashing smaller markets and pushing the narrative that no big-name players want to play in those cities.

It has worked to a degree. Success will go a long way toward changing it.

Zion is going to get endorsement deals no matter where he plays, and other players seeing his marketability despite playing in New Orleans will help change the perception.

If and when the two major teams from the two major media markets ever get good again, the writers and talking heads will relax with their incessant promotion of the anti-small market narratives.

There’s a lot of groupthink among players. Having a leader like Zion working to change the narrative will help shift the perception.

The fact that AD is a beta and a follower through-and-through only served to reinforce the problem.

Notice the Saints don’t have these issues. Same city, same ownership, totally different perception.

To think that the anti-small market narrative is factual and infallible is shortsighted IMO. It’s total BS. It needs to be called out as such.