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[QUOTE="EricLA, post: 2376125, member: 26"]
I was reading that the W is excited about the move.  Apparently they will be playing at the Mandalay Bay Center, and that MGM really wanted to buy them.  Hopefully the team will get some good attendance, but Las Vegas is a much smaller city than San Antonio (permanent residents).  Not sure how many gamblers will be interested in going to WNBA games.  I was just there and getting in and out of the downtown strip area is no picnic - it's a madhouse.

From the article:  "[I]Will there be an immediate fan base? How much and how quickly the WNBA will be embraced by locals and visitors remains to be seen. From strictly a population standpoint, San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States with over 1.4 million residents. Las Vegas comes in at No. 28 with just over 630,000.[/I]"
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