this

If it had any impact it makes travel worse the Northwest and no better for the Pacific and worse on time zones spanned. However who is in what division makes little impact, we play eleven out of the fifteen teams in the west four times in the regular season, the other four teams we play three with distance clearly not determining who we are not playing a fourth game.

I doubt the remaining team in the pacific league teams would be that interested in us joining their division. Oklahoma in the Pacific is geographically stupid, Phoenix arguably has enough ex-Californians that it makes some sense.

Nothing here is incorrect; I don't doubt any of it. However, if the Kings relocate then Seattle has to play somewhere -- a Pacific division without Portland, a Pacific with Portland, or a Northwest with Portland. I just don't believe the NBA will allow those two to be separated. The history of that rivalry is what makes it different than even Dallas/SA; if those two had a long, storied history of fans descending en masse on the other's arena for road games, it would be different.

So I'm making a bet that the NBA wisely places the Sonics and Blazers back together, most likely in the NW. That leaves OKC traveling to different time zones. That's really no big deal because the Thunder so now.

Nothing here is incorrect; I don't doubt any of it. However, if the Kings relocate then Seattle has to play somewhere -- a Pacific division without Portland, a Pacific with Portland, or a Northwest with Portland. I just don't believe the NBA will allow those two to be separated. The history of that rivalry is what makes it different than even Dallas/SA; if those two had a long, storied history of fans descending en masse on the other's arena for road games, it would be different.

So I'm making a bet that the NBA wisely places the Sonics and Blazers back together, most likely in the NW. That leaves OKC traveling to different time zones. That's really no big deal because the Thunder so now.

they pretty much play the same amount of games against each other either way

When the Sonics came to OKC and became the Thunder, they stayed in the Northwest division. I don't see the Kings changing divisions if they move to Seattle, they will stay in the Pacific.

Sacto's going to make one last push to keep the Kings. Don't call them Seattle yet:



City, investors reach $448 million deal for arena at Downtown Plaza - Kings/NBA - The Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/24/5288161/448-million-arena-deal-reached.html)