How or Should the NBA Realign Divisions After Seattle Takes the Kings?

[boitoirich]

Really interested to hear your ideas on this.


The Seattle SuperSonics are set to come back to the NBA after the city ironically steals a team from California (we'll leave that for another thread). With that, it only makes sense for the NBA to realign rather than to have Seattle in the Pacific Division with Golden State, the LA teams, and Phoenix, bypassing its natural I-5 rival -- Portland. Either OKC and the Kings/Sonics franchises need to swap divisions, which would send OKC to the Pacific, or the NBA should re-draw divisions altogether.

So what do you think should happen? Should OKC play in the Pacific Division although we're not in the Pacific (we're not in the Northwest either, but hey)? Should a true Pacific division form (SEA, PDX, Golden State, LAX^2)? Should OKC be in a division with the Texas teams instead? Do we even care where we are aligned, as long as the Peake is loud and Bricktown bars and restaurants are full on game nights?