(Yes, the NBA should just go ahead and do that immediately, but that’s a whole different conversation.) If the success of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder is any indication, then OKC is the ideal location for the NFL’s next expansion team. As we’ll see with our international candidates, the majority already have arenas that could plausibly be used to house an NBA squad, but there are a handful that will need renovations or a brand-new arena altogether.Germany has the more impressive list of talent that has played in the NBA, both in terms of quantity and quality: Dirk Nowitzki is indisputably the best native European to play in the league, and he leads the pack. If the NBA is ever serious about expansion, these eight cities should be at the top of the list. Every game played in Europe would have an added bit of intrigue, and the NBA could use some of that genuine in-arena enthusiasm to replace the high frequency of manufactured excitement that stateside NBA fans are all-too-accustomed to seeing.21 road games against International Conference opponents**Africa: Johannesburg, Cairo, Senegal, Nigeria8 home games against the Western Conference (Division A and C)If global domination is truly one of the NBA’s goals — and it certainly seems to be — they are on the right path to achieve it. If Seattle gets a team back, what would stop any other city from assuming it could lose a team and get it back down the line as well? The combined population of Norfolk (244,703 population) and Virginia Beach (450,435) is larger than Richmond, and they are far enough away from other NBA cities that they won’t poach fans from an existing team. That will happen in the next decade, and will be followed closely by a higher frequency of regular season games played overseas, as the NFL has been doing in recent years.The rest of the boxes to be checked are fairly minor in comparison, including competition from other sports in the area to weather and ease of travel, but the biggest items are the myriad economic factors, and that will come through in the cities selected below.Even though the International divisions include 16 teams spread over 11 countries, the international travel won’t be all that much more gruelling than some of the travel schedules in today’s NBA, given the proximity of countries and improvements in air travel.Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Utah, SacramentoHere’s an example schedule for the Mumbai Motors.We’re talking about 2068, of course. The city can clearly support a major team (and it’s going to see the NFL’s Raiders come to town soon enough), so it seems like it’s just a matter of if the NBA is willing to gamble on Sin City.We discussed Richmond a few minutes ago, and if that city is too small for an NBA expansion team then maybe a team shared by these sister cities fits the bill. The sheer size of the city and the burgeoning business culture in the area will continue to boost the economy and make building a large arena possible.But, again, population growth, basketball culture and history, and the top-end of the business community will carry New Delhi to the finish line when it comes to landing an NBA club.
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