https://x.com/PhillyMayor/status/1836474519739077069
As your Mayor, I'm speaking from my City Hall office with a very important announcement. I am proud to share that I have made my decision, and an agreement has been reached to ensure that our Sixers are staying home.
I wholeheartedly believe this is the right deal for the People of Philadelphia. To the People of Chinatown, please know that I hear you. We have the best Chinatown in the United States, and I am committed to working together to support it. I'll have a lot more to say in a formal presentation coming soon.
Sounds like it’s the Center City/Fashion District spot as originally planned.
by MVPiid
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The New Jersey 76ers would have been such a dumb team name. I wonder if they were contemplating doing a rebrand
RIP Philly Chinatown then
Edit:
> To the People of Chinatown, please know that I hear you. We have the best Chinatown in the United States, and I am committed to working together to support it.
Read: “What makes you think we give a shit about your feeling?”
I am happy that the 76ers are staying in Philadelphia.
Let’s goooooooo
It’ll also be huge for the city to revive that area, it’s so depressing it’s such a waste when that should be like the main part of the city
>We have the best Chinatown in the United States
hmmm
Trash team stays in trash city
Thank God I get to suffer alongside this franchise for many decades to come.
they’re gonna kick them out anyways after watching Paul George’s playoff performance lmao
There was never any real threat of they not remaining in Philly.
Kinda sucks that their Chinatown could be affected by this
At the risk of being a negative nancy, I’m super worried about how this is going to work. The area is insanely congested as it is without trying to bring in 30k extra people.
The public transit infrastructure, in its present state, cannot support this and based on the past few years of SEPTA project management, I don’t trust the appropriation of any incoming / increased money to actually enable change
Awesome news. Glad we can still actually build new things here from time to time.
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Did Philly cook here?
Rip Jersey 💔 deserves a team
I told you it was just putting pressure on the city.
Newark would have been so much better.
After this and the Wizards/Caps flirting with Virginia thing, I fully expect the eventual new Celtics owners to start fighting with Boston and threatening to move to Foxborough unless the city meets their demands
well at least New Jersey has 2 NFL teams to root for…
So how much of the taxpayers money is funding towards the new stadium? 95%?
Philly and the 76ers are like one of those incredibly loving, loyal couples that met on a herpes positive dating site