Surely they'd go back to being the Sonics, but I'd miss having a franchise named the Grizzlies, it's a good name for a team. Maybe the Jazz could become the Utah Grizzles, and New Orleans could have the Jazz name back?
They'd definitely go back to being the Supersonics and should take their history back from OKC. I never really got to experience the I5 rivalry.
That's how it should be. It'd be quite confusing for a while though. If I had it my way: - Memphis Grizzles move back to Vancouver - Los Angeles Clippers become the San Diego Clippers (they deserve 2 sports teams, Clippers will never be the pride of LA) - Seattle gets their Supersonics back via expansion. - St. Louis gets an expansion team (helps fill the regional void left by the departing Memphis Grizzlies, and they just lost their NFL team). 4 team divisions 9 teams make playoffs, 7 get BYES (division winners get automatic BYE), 8vs9 plug-in game. Northwest - Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Utah Pacific - Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Golden State Southwest - Pheonix, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston Central - Oklahoma City, Denver, Minnesota, St. Louis Southeast - New Orleans, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta Midwest - Milwaukee, Chicago, Indiana, Detroit Atlantic - Charlotte, Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland Northeast - Toronto New York, Brooklyn, Boston
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! (all in fun, of course) Although the goofy part of me would love to see the Seattle Mobos or RAM or something stupid like that.
Tbh the I-5 rivalry was never really much of a rivalry in my memory. Mostly just a fun, local, northwest "let's have at it" type of thing. I put way more stock into blazers vs lakers for the I-5 competition. Same can probably be said for sonics vs I-5 teams.
Why though? Lakers fans and the majority of the NBA don't consider them our rivals. Boston is LA's rival.
I wanna see an OKC forum since, if we win, they get HCA. I wanna see these dudes cheering for us lmao.
https://jazzfanz.com/threads/last-game-of-the-season-jazz-blazers-4-11-2018-8-30-pm-mst.88450/ https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1696705 https://www.slcdunk.com/2018/4/11/1...-donovan-mitchell-playoffs-northwest-division Game thread: Post game thread: Blues is way better than Jazz. Yeah I said it.
^ This guy knows Portland sucks at fastbreaks. Yeah I can't hate on Utah fans man. Tonight it was very clear the two best teams in the Division were playing. Teams who had their best player leave them. Teams who didn't add a superstar, or a star. Teams who were expected to be at the bottom of the division and battling for the 8th seed. Can't hate on Utah.
Agreed. I thought they'd be pretty bitter about ending their season like this, but I can't find much to fault them with.
