NBA expansion likely

Sprowl

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On behalf of Vancouver, my erstwhile home city for 20 years: FU.
 

djbayko

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Most of the country has shit pizza. Places like Utah and Phoenix were the sites of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote epic battles in the early 20th century.
See P&G today. We aren't talking normal bad pizza, where a people of a city try to copy it but just can't get it right. They invented their own type of pizza, and it's god awful.
 

Jimbodandy

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See P&G today. We aren't talking normal bad pizza, where a people of a city try to copy it but just can't get it right. They invented their own type of pizza, and it's god awful.
I know. Just saying that we disqualify most of the country based on the presence of bad pizza. If "you invented shit pizza" is the criterion, it seems pretty narrow and arbitrary. There's a lot of bad food invented in a lot of states here.
 

Tony C

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The league really can break into 4 very coherent divisions.
1: Pacific Coast/Southwest: Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Golden State, L.A, L.A., Phoenix, Las Vegas.
2: Rockies/Plains/Texas/BBQ-good food belt: Utah, Denver, OKC, SA, Hou, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis.
3: Mid-west/South: Minn, Milw, Cleveland, Indiana, Chicago, Det, Atl, Charlotte.
4: East/Florida: Toronto, Boston, NY, Brooklyn, Phil, Washington, Orlando, Miami.

Play 30 games intra-division to cut down on travel and the other 50/52 against the other 3 divisions. At least right now those divisions would make geographic sense, would have lots of natural rivalries, and at least for now would have good competitive balance, too.
 

Saints Rest

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The league really can break into 4 very coherent divisions.
1: Pacific Coast/Southwest: Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Golden State, L.A, L.A., Phoenix, Las Vegas.
2: Rockies/Plains/Texas/BBQ-good food belt: Utah, Denver, OKC, SA, Hou, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis.
3: Mid-west/South: Minn, Milw, Cleveland, Indiana, Chicago, Det, Atl, Charlotte.
4: East/Florida: Toronto, Boston, NY, Brooklyn, Phil, Washington, Orlando, Miami.

Play 30 games intra-division to cut down on travel and the other 50/52 against the other 3 divisions. At least right now those divisions would make geographic sense, would have lots of natural rivalries, and at least for now would have good competitive balance, too.
I like this. I would suggest the following schedule:
  • 4 games against each team in your own division = 28 games. Two 2-game series home and away.
  • 2 games against each of the other 24 teams = 48 games. Home and away singles.
Only 76 games total, but perhaps that could eliminate some of the need for "load-maintenance days."
 

HomeRunBaker

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At least there is expansion in one former NBA city......and in one former NBA player. :oops:

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worm0082

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Would the new Seattle team get to keep all of their statistical history? Like how when the Browns moved to Baltimore the 99 expansion Browns kept all the teams records? Banners , stats, retired numbers etc…