Rebrand. Invest. Grow. Market. Sell out a 10,000 seat venue. Deliver on Court success. Revert to what they were when they played out of a 3500 seat stadium.

Sounds like a sound business plan. Definitely more important to appeal to the failed past than to grow for a sustainable future.

If they can bring back the Kings & Bullets, its certainly possible if the right business situation appears but I doubt LK will easily allow the extrication process.

Tigers were strongly against the formation of the NBL saying it would be bad for Oz basketball. Then after they were getting beat in the VBL , they managed to get the league to expand to 20+ teams and get in. Then mediocre performances both on and off the court for decades until they got lucky with Bradke and other local and OS imports for a few years, then fell over. never supported their women much, did little for the league as a whole, and they are "ICONIC".

Best left where they are IMHO

Thought the United license is the old Tigers one, so not a chance?

"Kestelman and Slepoy retain ownership of the Tigers identity at a professional level, ending any chance of a team called the Tigers emerging in the NBL."

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/tigers-turn-united-in-hope-of-galvanising-the-community-20140520-zrie9.html

While Tigers had a large loyal fan base, there were a lot of Melbourne fans who hated them for surviving when the other Melbourne teams didn't.

The NBL mis-calculated how many of those fans would go over to supporting Tigers instead of Giants, Magic, etc

SEABL is where there future lies. Maybe LK could sell there rights which would be good and if the NBL in like 30 years is promo/relegation then maybe..
Also didn't know the Tigers owe the Gazes money so are they on bad terms with the Gaze family now?
Sydney Supersonics would be awesome to bring back ala La Lakers/ala La Clippers style. Kings vs Sydney supersonics has a good ring to it. But i think the kings own the supersonics licence to now. But be good if the supersonics could come back.. I reckon Nth QLD will get a combined team ala Nth QLD Cowboys, change name to Crocs ditch Taipans. The casual cairns sports fan will get behind a team called the Nth QLD Crocs.. LK wanted that anyway a merger with crocs

Bring back the Sydney Spirit.

I'd rather see Geelong Supercats returning so you have the Melbourne vs Rural Victoria vibe (perhaps they could play games in Bendigo too) so I'm sure that would work.

I see a lot of crap spoken above but nobody has suggested how much the Tigers license is worth, if LK was to be interested in parting with the license then how much do you think it would take ?

Bring back the Westside Wildcats

Geelong, bigger and the sport is more popular than 30 years ago.
Would be more viable than adding a Melb s/e franchise out of Knox/Dandy/Kilsyth. Taking United Fans.

"The casual cairns sports fan will get behind a team called the Nth QLD Crocs.. "

Anyone who thinks this is desperately mistaken. Anyone who has spent any time at all in NQ knows of the antipathy and disregard both cities have for each other.

Townsville effectively gave up on basketball when economic conditions put the pump on the city, to suggest they should be resurrected and combined with a Cairns team that posts a profit (albeit marginal) is fairly far gone.

Slopernator,

In the NRL the Cowboys do play games in Cairns the Nth QLD Cowboys do have a large fan base in Cairns despite any rivalry it might have in the Cairns vs Townsville divide or Nth QLD bragging rights etc..

I often wonder if it would work to have a second WA Based team, how much it would take away from the Perth Wildcats fan base.

People didn't hate the Melb Tigers because of the NBL. Most people hated them because they were known to be poachers. Would offer all the best kids across Victoria a spot on their rep side. The other bigger clubs hated losing their best kids after they spent the time developing the fundamentals in the first place.

Please bring back the Tigers, and take Gaze back to melbourne with you.