Future NBA Moves That Make As Much Sense As Moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City

From a pure financial standpoint, moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City does not make much sense. It makes even less sense when the history of the NBA is taken into account, but if there is one thing fans of the league have learned, nothing has to make any sense to the league unless THEY believe it will benefit them in a monetary sense.

The Sonics are a storied franchise with a 40-year history and many successful teams from separate eras. How does moving them to an arena, that is not brand new, simply because the tax payers of Seattle will not build a new one make any sense? 

Now that it seems inevitable that the Sonics will move to Oklahoma City, it feels appropriate to go over a list of things that may happen during the next decade in the NBA that will make at least as much sense as moving a team from a television market ranked in the teens to one that is ranked in the 40s.  

-The NBDL will get a major television deal to broadcast its games nationally. 

-After the league finishes visiting Asia and Europe, they will branch out to every other continent, eventually playing a game in Antarctica to truly achieve their global reach. 

-The league will consist of 82 teams in different countries across the world. In order to compete with the cold weather events of playoff football and the NHL’s new annual outdoor game, the NBA will plan its own outside game during the winter in a football stadium (players will still have to wear their traditional uniforms).

-After drafting UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough with the first-overall pick in the NBA draft, Michael Jordan will make his third comeback with the Bobcats. 

-Players from the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons will be dispersed equally around the league so every team will have the same amount of boring, fundamentally sound players who complain about every foul called against them. 

-LeBron James gets so fed up with head coach Mike Brown’s offense that he tells general manager Danny Ferry to fire Brown and hire James as a player/coach. 

-All new stadiums will be built to seat at least 40,000 people to maximize profitability. The playoffs will go until the beginning of September. 

-The Globetrotters will become an official NBA team, but will not have a home stadium. They will truly be globe trotters and play one game against all of the 82 teams from all over the world. 

How is all of this going to happen you ask?  

-Isiah Thomas is going to be commissioner of the NBA. 

By now the league has to realize that moving the Hornets to New Orleans because they couldn’t get a deal done in Charlotte was a bad idea. Moving a team and then putting an expansion team in its place does not make any sense at all. If there has to be a team in Oklahoma City, why not put an expansion team there? (Although I don’t believe the league is ready for another one of those.) 

From the standpoint of what is going to make the money, which is the only thing that the league truly cares about, moving a team to a city that is the size of Oklahoma City would not be the most profitable thing to do. Obviously the NBA is mad because the city of Seattle paid for a new baseball and football stadium, but won't pay for a new basketball arena. Yet, packing up and leaving is not the answer and is a disgrace to the league.  

(Since the city of Seattle is petitioning to keep their name and colors, the move will be almost exactly like the Cleveland Browns’ move to Baltimore in the mid-90s, something that many still look down upon the league for allowing it to happen.)

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