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if you’re the league, expansion must serve to make the Western Conference less competitive, so that means moving a top team from the west to the east. I’d love to see the Thunder move and I’d make the case that Oklahoma feels less western than Minnesota, which feels more like Oregon than Oklahoma does. And you can set up a future finals grudge match between the Thunder and the Supersonics, which would rule.
While I agree that I'd like to see the Thunder shot into the sun, er, moved to the east, they're too close to the Texas teams to not be a western conference team.
Minnesota is a lot like the Blazers (until the Sonics come back), they're not close to ANY western conference team.

