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Dunno but this is great. I kinda missed the Sonics, and no one will miss the Kings, or the Maloofs.
It would be weird to have Portland in the Northwest division and Seattle in the Pacific division. I guess the NBA will change them. How will they change them and will Spurs division change?
Dunno but this is great. I kinda missed the Sonics, and no one will miss the Kings, or the Maloofs.
Yeah...I always liked the name Supersonics.
Will Clay Bennett relesse the name?
My take:
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...70#post6274870
At this point, all of the "Kevin Durant is the first franchise player since Gary Payton" to do such-and-such bull has to stop. When Oklahoma City got the Thunder, it was stipulated that the city of Seattle would keep all logos, colors, and franchise records. That way if they ever got an expansion team, it would be a continuation of the Sonics franchise. The Thunder should be treated as an expansion team.
I'm not sure how that will work since it's an existing team moving there. Whose records get kept?
I'm sure they'll figure out a way to become the Sonics again, they have to.
To answer your question, Bruno I don't think the Southwest will change. The NBA won't break up the Texas Three-Step, and Memphis and New Orleans aren't going to move to another division.
If it did, San Antonio would move to the Pacific, where honestly it has the best cultural fit. I don't see that, but Stern could try to sell fans the Lakers/Spurs rivalry being enhanced if they were in the same division. In that case, OKC would take the Spurs' spot, where they are also a better cultural fit. That would be interesting, as them with Houston and New Orleans can mean great divisional battles for a long time.
After looking at it, there isn't an obvious answer but I will go with:
Pacific: Clippers, Lakers, Warriors, Blazers, Sonics.
Northwest: Jazz, Nuggets, Wolves, Thunder, Grizzlies.
Southwest: Spurs, Mavs, Rockets, Suns, Pelicans.
Switch the Kings and Blazers?
I'd switch the Jazz and the Suns. That'd make it more traditional. The Jazz belong in the same division with the Spurs, Rockets and Mavs ... it's just right.
That looks logical, maybe renaming the Northwest to something else, like midwest should improve this.
All Pacific teams are from states that have the ocean by their sides.
All Southwest are in the south border or the gulf.
Although all northwest teams are north of all southwest, calling Memphis and OKC north just doesn't sound right. Is there a more midwest-like in team in the East than the Wolves? Move them to KC or St. Louis and it would be perfect!
Worst case is if OKC is moved to the Southwest division...
why it can't stay the same that's now?
Then we couldn't have this thread.
Time to bring back the "midwest" name, tbh.
Prob because Seattle is more north-westerly than Portland, which is in the Northwest division.
Still, they could just trade places with Portland.
Pacific:
L.A. Lakers
L.A. Clippers
Golden State
Phoenix
Portland
Northwest:
Oklahoma City
Utah
Denver
Seattle
Minnesota
Not a bad idea.
Pacific:
Seattle
Portland
Lakers
Clippers
Golden State
Midwest:
Utah
Phoenix
Denver
Oklahoma City
Minnesota
While OKC is damn close on the map, I don't see how they can do this without throwing everything out of whack.
As mentioned, they won't split up the three Texas teams. New Orleans and Memphis are both too far to east to fit into either of the other Western divisions.
Only way they could reasonably put OKC into the Southwest would be to move Memphis into the Eastern conference (where it probably actually belongs), but that would create a whole new set of problems to sort out.
Seattle has been begging for a team since the Sonics got taken away from them. This isn't that big a deal only because Cali already has three teams with two in the same city so yay for Seattle. Kings may become a force to be reckoned with now much like the Thunder.
This alignment makes more sense than anything else, imo.
If breaking up the T3S is an option, here would be my re-alignment:
Southwest:
Clippers
Lakers
Nuggets
Spurs
Suns
Deep South:
Grizzlies
Mavericks
Pelicans
Rockets
Thunder
Northwest:
Jazz
Supersonics
Timberwolves
Trailblazers
Warriors
If the Spurs were to move into the same division with the Lakers, Clippers and Suns, (and Denver, which has a much bigger latino population than people often realize) at least the noches latinas could pretty much be sequestered to one division. I think Houston and Dallas would fit in fine with other southern cities like Memphis, New Orleans and OKC. If you add in the liberal northwestern cities (and Minnesota), and you have three pretty well-balanced groups culturally. From a basketball perspective, however, the Northwest division would be really weak compared to the others.
Oklahoma City in the "Northwest".
Switch the Thunder and Suns. The Thunder will have natural rivalries with their Texan neighbors.
This is great news for us in Seattle. At least I get to see the Spurs locally 2 times a year. Visiting family in Texas to fit in a Spurs game was getting expensive...
Pacific: Blazers, Sonics, Warriors, Clippers, Lakers
Midwest: Suns, Jazz, Nuggets, Timberwolves, Thunder
Southwest: Spurs, Mavs, Rockets, Pelicans, Grizz
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