Texas is the one red state that makes money tbf. It would be a top 10 GDP country with Scandinavia levels GDP per capita if it were independent. Maybe more as it’s a huge donor to the government. It’s the oil and tech manufacturing money.

Those libs saving the day once again

Texas is the third largest net donor in the country 

Bro there’s plenty of bad in my state but I’m gonna need some sources on what the hell New York has bailed Texas out of. The only bailouts I’m aware of involving New York or Texas were because of a bunch of New York bankers who got too frisky circa 2008.

And last I checked, a lot of those banks are moving operations to Dallas.

What are you even waffling about lmao. Texas has a bigger economy than New York. 

So I guess we are just lying now

?? This isn’t the 1920s brodie

Bravo

Finals 15

Them big ol women keeping the churro business afloat.

using honchos prices ($7.79 for a 2 churro order), that’s 9,293,966 churros, which is 3,097,988 per home game.

we should probably count watch parties and the away game san antonio won, so 1,858,793 churros sold per game, which is 929,396 total orders per game.

with an estimated population of 1.57mil, there’s a lot of people not eating churros on game day so either chuck was lying or there’s a few big ole women eating them and the regular population are not big fans of churros

$36.2m is oddly specific but makes sense

Maybe they can reinvest some of that money into cleaning the dirty little Creek

God dammit I was gonna come in here and make the “must have sold a lot of churros” comment and got beat by…7 hours okay fair play

It’s less when you subtract the cannibalized spending from locals.

just as a reference, made me look up OKC’s tax to fund their new arena

6 years, minimum $900m

the deepest postseason run (ie Spurs as a top seed, most home games, get to the Finals, etc) fetches you $36m.

arenas last like 25 years? so napkin math says 25 years of making the Finals and generating $36m in economic impact yearly (36m x 25 = 900m) would allow you to break even

Yeah this feels like actually a pretty small number especially given these numbers are usually exaggerated up

Not exactly comparable since it’s a whole country but the Raptors championship run in 2019 boosted the national GDP by 0.2%, so yeah this seems kinda light?

I mean who would want to visit Texas and their swamp ass heat.

90 million a game https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/06/mayor-mamdani-announces-new-york-knicks-postseason-has-generated

NYC accidentally losing the Spurs entire take behind the couch

But if you take into account the property damage it’s probably a net 0 /s

By 2029 Fox will cost 63m/year for the spurs

Thats only like six dogs

To be fair it’s two games. So basically each game generates $15million.     

In comparison Taylor swift’s single concert is average of 13.5 million.    

That doesn’t seem like a lot but it is a single event.    

If you could do that everyday that would be 5.4billion annual. There isn’t that many events that can bring in money like that in a single day. 

Enjoy the churros. We’ll get you next season

They probably get these figures from credit card companies which can figure this stuff out pretty quickly and precisely. I work with a DMO and it’s pretty crazy the data they can pull.

Seems pretty conservative tbh, New York was that every home game was generating an additional $90 million. Not total, per game.

Ticket sales for game 3 alone generated almost \(600 million…if you think the total economic impact in the city was less than \)30 mil you’re tripping 😭

Tbh prob all New Yorkers flying in since MSG was so expensive. $36 mill is a Tuesday here

i think nyc economic knicks impact was like 400 million 😅

How about affordable housing?

w-we we have-… we have some stuff… like… Like, hey, have you ever been to the Spanish Governor’s Palace? It’s this really coo

Try sweets