If you’re trying to keep travel lighter for everyone it should be Minnesota. Its the most isolated of any of the West teams but very close to multiple East cities.

it would be Minny. we are at least kinda close to a group of the West teams we play.

i’m pretty sure we are closer to NOLA, OKC, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio than Minny is to their closest West team

I hope so. Would make the east more competitive instead of the bloodbath in the west

Wolves fans used to cite a stat about the Wolves travelling more than anybody else, but I don’t actually think that’s true anymore (maybe since the Sonics moved it’s the Blazers…?). But having the opportunity to mimic the NFL rivalries should be too much for the NBA to pass up regardless.

Even as an Australian- I will be shocked if it’s not Minnesota.

Even if both NO and Memphis are slightly east of it geographically, last time I did the numbers they each had something like 5 western conference teams that were closer to them than Minny’s closest WC neighbour. (Where Minny close teams are all in the great lake states).

And (as long as Ant is still there) it also makes the most sense competition wise - especially compared to NO.

every once in a while the sub comes through with a fire ass post

this is one of them OP you cooking with fresh beef tallow

It’s amazing how many people in this thread can’t do math or even read the original post - you only need to move one team east if you add two teams in the west.

Memphis Grizzlies are further east than Minnesota

Yes, Edwards needs a championship

Hopefully Silver likes the OKC Minny rivalry and move us east.

My guess would be Minnesota, but I’m curious how the NBA would redo divisions after adding two more expansion teams — presumably in Seattle and Vegas.

I’m not sure whether the NBA would do divisions of 4 teams like the NFL or divisions of 8 teams like the NHL. But it’ll be fascinating to see.

Memphis, Minnesota, and New Orleans all have cases. For New Orleans you have to factor in that NO might move. Where is their new city?

I think we’re going to get a full division realignment NHL style, although NFL style would be cleaner. Would consider also a full dropping of the East/West conferences like the NFL and MLB. Something like this:

Atlantic: BOS, BKN, CHA, MIA, NYK, ORL, PHI, WAS North: CHI, CLE, DET, IND, MEM, MIL, MIN, TOR South: ATL, DAL, DEN, HOU, NOP, OKC, SAS, UTH Pacific: GSW, LAC, LAL, LV, PHX, POR, SAC, SEA,

Move clippers back to Buffalo

Why wouldn’t Memphis or New Orleans move to the East before we did?..

Make it the kings you cowards!!!

I think it should be the Wolves tbh. Way too many teams up in that corner, and they’re somehow in the same division as Portland, lmao.

Yes, because then Giannis can get traded to Minnesota and still be in the East 

This is a joke

I think when you look at it geographically either Memphis or Minnesota gets fucked, or maybe both. Everything else makes too much sense. In two 16 team conferences with 4 team divisions, the Midwest teams get it the worst.

Seattle easily slides in with Portland, Golden State, and Sacramento. Las Vegas slides in with the two LA teams and Pheonix. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, also likely stay in the same division as it feels wrong to break up the Texas Triangle.

If Memphis moves east, New Orleans stays with the Texas teams and then you keep a midwest division with OKC, Minn, Utah, and Denver. It’s slightly better than it is now just due to not having Portland in it.

If NO moves east, you can either keep Memphis with the Texas teams and keep OKC, Minn, Utah, Denver together OR throw OKC in with Texas (due to proximity) and again have a Memphis, Minn, Utah, Denver division.

If Minn moves east, you have to keep New Orleans with Texas and end up with Memphis, OKC, Utah, and Denver again.

I think Minn moving east with Memphis moving to the midwest division with OKC, Utah, and Denver is best for the league, but the most fun option might be moving New Orleans and having a Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, OKC division.

Imagine wolves move east and make finals their first year…people will cry

Yes.

It’s what makes sense. Put the Wolves with the Bulls, Bucks, and Pacers.

And they’ll go to eight divisions.

The controversial move will be which four of Grizz, Pelicans, Mavs, Rockets, Spurs, and Thunder will be added to a division…

It’s either Minnesota IMO and they’re in the same division as OKC, Portland, Utah and Denver. That’s just nuts. BUT if say the Pelicans decided to sell and move to some city in the East, you’d have to re-align divisions anyway and you can at least keep them from going so often to the West coast but putting them in a division with Memphis, OKC and some of the TX teams maybe. I don’t think moving NOLA is happening so probably just move Minnie East

Pelicans would make most sense. They won’t move Minnesota as long as Jokić is in Denver.

I feel like it has to be Minnesota. It just makes too much sense with their proximity to the Midwest teams. The wolves are so isolated from the rest of the Western conference

Pelicans or Grizz

Please god move them to the East

lmao wolves would be automatic 1st seed in that conference

Id be sad just because we are finally starting to build up some juice in the playoffs against the nuggets, having real rivalries and shit. We FEEL like a western conference team idk how to describe it

Okay conspiracy time: Memphis will be moved to the East so that Grizzles and NBA can put pressure on the city of Memphis for a great (for them) arena deal to not move to Nashville or even just move to Nashville.

If they’re trying to balance the conferences at all they should move Minni. Pelicans and Grizz are likely to keep stinking for a while, Wolves should be in the ECF for the next few years

Moving our team to the east after just giving up on our core this season and all the we find in the west stuff would be hilarious and also quite humbling at the same time.

i’d love for the Wolves to be east, more Knicks-Wolves games would be sick

Vegas would suck as an NBA city 

I’m sure they hope so

Minny and Memphis should move East

I think so. Only other team that might make sense is MEM, but I feel like I read somewhere that MIN moving east is the most likely scenario.

There shouldn’t be distinct advantages or disadvantages to any team in a professional sports setting, this is clearly a disadvantage for MIN.

Certain tax situations are also complete bullshit, some teams pay like 10x more whereas some teams pay no state tax

Wonder if they’d do an NFL style realignment too after that with 4x4 divisions. Minnesota fits right in with the other Central teams geographically

Not only will the wolves move east, I can see them changing the divisions to 4 teams instead of 5(kinda like how NFL divisions work).

I wouldn’t mind having more early games. That’s about all I care about. Lol

If two west teams get added it will be two of either the t wolves, grizzlies or pelicans. I think grizzlies would be a lock to move to the east.

I think it’s going to be Dallas. I’m still clinging hard to the conspiracy that the Luka trade was on purpose to tank the franchise so the Adelsons can move it to Vegas.

Move a top 5 team to the East. Its getting ridiculous in the West.

Looking at the map, it pretty much has to be Minny or Memphis.

Minny makes the most sense, because it is so isolated from the rest of its division.

Memphis makes more sense than New Orleans, because Memphis is much closer to much of the Eastern Conference teams (everyone except the Florida teams is closer to Memphis than New Orleans). But, the Southwest Division is actually pretty geographically tight, with Memphis, New Orleans and the Texan teams all being pretty close, so, even though they are farther East than Minny, their current division makes a lot of sense for them, while Minny would make much more sense in a division with Milwaukee and Chicago than it would in a division with freaking Portland and Utah.

adding teams meaning adding games in regular season? how the seeds work with more teams?

never understood why minnesota was put in the west to begin with

Inshallah we are delivered from the torment that is the Northwest division 🙏🙏

Probably, but I hope not. It should be Memphis who is the most East team. But obviously every team wants to go east.

It’s them or the Grizzles

The Mississippi River doesn’t split the US in half and is already in the east. Memphis is east of the river yet in the Western conference. 

It has to be Memphis

yes

No. Memphis.

Hopefully.

New Orleans needs to move east too right?

I give Minnesota a 90% chance of moving East. They make no sense to be grouped with the teams they are grouped with, their travel to their closest division rival is similar to other teams’ travel to their furthest division rivals. Minnesota to OKC is like 800 miles, Memphis to San Antonio is like 750. Something like that.

It makes sense to move the TWolves to the East - you’ve got natural geographic rivalries with Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis.

Memphis is already at East of the Mississippi, so it makes more sense that the grizzlies move. Same for the pelicans. These 2 make more sense in the east conference IMO

It makes sense that you can have Minnesota, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit all in the same conference/division, even. Those are great rivalries across sports.

Geographically, it makes less sense, but that hasn’t stopped the NBA before.

they should just change it to north vs south joe mazulla would love to re-enact the civil war

It should be Manny, because there is nothing about the great lakes that is anywhere near the northwest.

I think Memphis personally

Nobody is talking about it but what are the chances that one of those teams is the Pelicans moving to either Seattle or Vegas?

Hope so. West is way too competitive

They should just get rid of the conferences all together. Useless for all-star, very bad for balance in playoff seeding.

We can still keep the (re-aligned) divisions for regional rivalries and to limit cross-country travel.

Get rid of the Eastern and Western conferences. It’s been competitively lopsided for the past 25 years. Fans of all those teams are praying to go east.

I think so, for the geographical (travel distance/regional rivalries) reasons that most have mentioned but it also seems that the Pelicans and Grizzlies are the two most likely teams to potentially relocate at some point in the future.