The expansion drafts before that are going to be must see TV

Seattle vs OKC is gonna get oh so nasty I can’t wait

please god don’t let espn cover it

Hopefully they’ll get the Sonics trademark back without a fight like the Browns had when they re-entered the NFL

They better retire #20 on that very opening night. It would be perfect.

its gonna be Super

I mean if they cheer like they do for the Seahawks, one might want to bring some ear plugs for that opener

And hopefully GP2 still has something in the tank. Jersey sales alone would be great for the team

If an expansion team picks KCP, they should just fold and start the team over

Can we do the expansion draft tomorrow? Can’t wait until PWill is gone

I’m pretty sure we would protect Klay, and I don’t see Thunder exposing Dort as well. Dirty player as he may be he still contributes a lot to OKC.

They need to stagger the expansion like the NHL did with Vegas and Seattle. You’re just asking for the two expansion teams to be bottom feeders for years if you don’t

They’re changing the tanking rules this summer, which is going to make this even more of a shit-show.

Klay Thompson is 36 now

Once the expansion draft comes he’s either retired or signed a 1 year farewell tour with GS

If the current rules set expansion teams up to fail, idk why the fix isn’t just to reduce the protected players from 8 to 7 per team

Can a team “bribe” an extension team with draft picks to draft/take a bad contract off their hands from them?

I’d put Fox up. His extension sucks.

Why is it always Schroder? Lol

Damn, that’s like all the bad-semibad contracts teams want to get rid of

I think this gets done ASAP

If 7 million people offered $1,000 each, we could get it done! /s

That would be awesome though. The thought of r/nba, LLC cracks me up

In 2028 the contenders will likely be different

Memphis, obviously.

If wolves go east this might be the worst day in grizzlies history. We get fucked over going east and fucked over getting our original franchise back

So we know it’s going to happen

A professional sports team is more than just a stadium, owners and players.

You can rush everything and do it poorly. Or you can give the new owners and teams a fair shot at hiring all the various levels of people needed and making sure everything is good to go to be competitive and a boon for the league rather than a hindrance

Adding two new teams effects salaries, stadium staff, medical staff, training staff, logos, scheduling etc.

It seems easy to us. But these things take time to do properly. And properly is the keyword.

Im no NBA insider but I’d assume it’s a lot more moving pieces than just those few elements

Rare Sonic’s fan to Thunder fan. 

Mini

Minnesota. Regionally, they already have built in rivalries and the NBA for sure wants ANT in the east.

It doesn’t make sense geographically, but it’s likely to be Minnesota. They are much further from any other Western Conference teams.

Minnesota, since it has connections to the Midwest East teams

Minnesota makes the most sense

Memphis.

I think New Orleans should go East. Basically purely on the scientific approach of the mascot evaluation. Wolves and Grizzlies belong in the West.

Yes

in the Toronto/Vancouver expansion draft, the expansion draft was before the rookie draft so it wouldn’t be an issue

Because after this year Silver and co will effectively make tanking pointless. Flattening odds even more, prohibiting back to back top 4 picks in drafts, harsher punishing for obvious losing plays

It wouldnt kill tanking but it will effectively be a husk of what it was

Yeah I would love to have a Cascadia Cup of basketball

It can be a good thing, if they restructure things like divisions and playoff seeding the right way.

Tanking fixes are also gonna need to happen too.

Bros been waiting 9 years for this

Surely Memphis gets moved, but id prefer OKC get thrre asses to the east and make thing interesting for the next decade or so.

Sacramento is not moving anytime soon, they built a taxpayer funded arena fairly recently and the league doesn’t want to punish any city that does that.

None of us want this. Also they tried moving the Kings and it didn’t happen. Sacramento is also a way bigger market than people realize. It would make more sense to move the Pels than the Kings.

And most importantly, the owners don’t all get $500 million checks for relocation.

It won’t just because of how much money it’ll make. It’ll be one of the most filled stadiums year in and year out. Just because of the amount of other teams fans who make seeing their team a vacation to Vegas.

If that happens the stadium might get burned down

What’s with all this Kansas City people appearing over the last couple days. How does the city that hosts summer league, nba cup and an all star game seem wacky? Also losing your chiefs to the state of Kansas doesn’t make you look attractive to the NBA

Gambling money. Silver is the bookies’ dog

Tax incentives to go there, no state income taxes, owners want to live there, other owners want to visit, remove gambling stigma, presumed good attendance from traveling fanbases

Money talks bullshit walks. End of the day it’s about $.

How do you know there aren’t dedicated fans though? I can’t wait to be a fan of the Vegas franchise.

KC? they are losing their football team. How is that attractive?

If I had my way the Grizzlies would go back to Vancouver and then we could have a PNW rivalry restored 

What hypocrisy? I think Vancouver should get a team too. I don’t see how being excited for this means that you think Vancouver should be left in the dust.

Let’s cut the league down to the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks and Warriors and only watch star players and ratings will go crazy 

If you cut the teams nobody gave a shit about the NBA would be the Lakers, Knicks, Warriors, Celtics, then maybe San Antonio and Miami

This is not a good take

Why?

Seattle Knicks doesn’t really work tho

Nah, no one should have to experience a wrong to make a wrong right.

Not even the Kings

There isn’t a single fanbase in the NBA right now that wouldn’t have an uproar if that happened. No one wants to move. It makes more sense to make a brand new start for Seattle.

Relocation is a microcosm of everything wrong with American sports. What happened to the Sonics was a disgrace. Congrats on having such a cancerous take

Which teams would be on the relocation block in your opinion?

Thats cool but its not my gripe and I sleep. Expansion is spicy