It’s not about distance. It’s about common geographic sense. Entire states and regions root for teams. You’re arguing to move teams based on length of time or whatever and we’re all talking about what naturally makes sense based on region and literally every other sport. In NFL - Chicago, Minnesota, Detroit and Wisconsin are in the same division. In college football they’re all in the same division, in MLB they’re all in the same division and so forth. The original Minneapolis Lakers were literally in the “central division” with Chicago and Detroit. Memphis doesn’t have that clear regional connection nor history. The only reason Minnesota was not placed in the East was to balance conferences when 4 expansion teams were added at once.
exactly.
Your argument is about history with teams from other leagues in other sports. Who cares about that? The only valid argument is travel.
Flight from NO to Atlanta is 1h and 30m roughly around the same difference between Minnesota to Indy or Cleveland or Detroit.I’m arguing about travel
Minneapolis is a hour flight from Milwaukee, and between an hour and 30-40 min from Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis and 2 hrs from Cleveland. No other West teams are that close to them. They’re basically on an island. I don’t get how this is going over your head
The part about rivalries in other leagues is just a bonus.
NBA players barely want to come to Charlotte, why would they want to play in Raleigh
all up there.
While y’all bullshytting
NBA in Raleigh would probably blow up cuz that’s Basketball Mecca.
Imagine you have NC State, Duke, Carolina, and then the Raleigh Super Sonics
shyt would be crazy!!! Then add Carolina hockey team!
NC would be
What other cities would you go with?
my city
It wouldn’t cause at least New Orleans is close to all the teams in their division. Minny is close to nobody in the west as currently presented.
