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Northeast Division:
Montreal Royals
Toronto Raptors
Boston Celtics
New York Knicks
Brooklyn Nets
Atlantic Division:
Pittsburgh something
Philadelphia 76ers
Baltimore Bullets
Washington Wizards
Virginia something
Central Division:
Detroit Pistons
Cleveland Cavaliers
Indiana Pacers
Chicago Bulls
Milwaukee Bucks (only division to stay the same)
Southeast:
Charlotte Hornets
Atlanta Hawks
Memphis Blues
Orlando Magic
Miami Heat
Western Conference
Midwest:
Minnesota Timberwolves
St. Louis something
Kansas City Kings
Denver Nuggets
Utah Jazz
Southwest:
New Orleans Pelicans
Houston Rockets
San Antonio Spurs
Dallas Mavericks
Oklahoma Thunder (drop city, broaden statewide appeal)
Northwest:
Vancouver Grizzlies
Seattle Supersonics
Portland Trailblazers
Sacramento something
San Francisco Warriors (or Oakland, just stop calling it Golden State)
Pacific:
Phoenix Suns
Las Vegas something
San Diego Seals
Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Lakers
As you can see, some teams I couldn't think of names for. Anyways...
All 8 division winners make the playoffs along with 4 wild card teams. The four division winners get the first four seeds, but they are not guaranteed home court advantage. That is determined by record.
The season is structured like this; 7 games against every team in your division and 8 against the two teams that were adjacent in the standings to you the prior year. 2 games against every team in your division but not your conference. 1 game against every team in the opposite conference and 2 against two of the divisions. Every year, the divisions that play each other twice as opposed to once would switch off. For example:
Let's say that the Lakers finish second in their division behind the Clippers and directly above the Suns. The next year, they would play those two teams 8 times and San Diego and Las Vegas 7 times. Every other team in the Western Conference they would play twice. As for the Eastern Conference, let's say that this year the two divisions they are up against twice are the Central and Atlantic. They would play those teams twice and every team in the Northeast and Southeast once.
This comes out to 30 games against teams in your division, 30 games against teams in your conference but not your division, and 30 games against teams in the other conference. If you want a shorter season, you could do 20, 20, and 20.
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The only international moves made were bringing back the Vancouver Grizzlies (which I like) and creating a team for Montreal. I would expand into Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and either Sao Paulo or Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. If it could work logistically, I would definitely also want a team in London and then in Madrid. Expanding into Europe would be challenging due to the distance and time difference, but maybe if the teams played 5 straight home games and then 5 straight road games off and on, it might work.
Brazil, Spain, and Argentina are big consumers of the NBA at the moment due to the number of NBA players that have come from these countries, but imagine if these countries actually had a team. The NBA fan base would grow tremendously on the world stage as opposed to adding teams in small market US cities such a Tucson, El Paso, Kansas City or even Pittsburgh.
International markets would propel it in surpassing the NFL in popularity.
The only international expansion that would work would be in North America: I.e. Mexico City, Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, Edmonton, Calgary, Monterrey, Quintana Roo (Cancun), San Juan, Bermuda, etc. Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Munich, London, Shanghai wouldn't work because of the travel & the time zones. London can have a couple games a season but you couldn't have a team play 41 home games there. Same with China.
The Nets need to be moved from Brooklyn, back to Newark, doesn't make sense for any ciy to have two NBA teams. NY will be Knicks all the way for at least the next generation
Little Rock
Birmingham Fort Worth
St. Louis Kansas City Albuquerque Raleigh Louisville Pittsburgh Seattle
The bolded places have no chance of that ever happening, the underlined are highy questionable
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