Sorry, Charlotte—no changes in color scheme, nickname, or roster changes the fact that you shouldn't have an NBA team.
Care to elaborate on why you think Charlotte shouldn't have an NBA team?
Personally, I think Charlotte is a wonderful city.
Sure. I have nothing against the city, but that area seems like a place where great interest in college hoops doesn't translate to great interest in pro hoops.
Also, I'm of the mind that the NBA, like all American pro sports leagues, is watered down with too many teams, and I see Charlotte (based on my first point) as a good candidate to go. Others I'd like to see gone (or at least
wouldn't mind seeing them gone):
Toronto: almost no one in Canada cares about basketball
Sacramento: historically bad, no one wants to play there, and Northern California doesn't need two teams (keep Golden State, which has had more success historically)
Memphis: good team but, like Charlotte, not a hotbed of basketball interest
Orlando: doesn't strike me as a pro sports city—it's sort of like the Jacksonville of the NBA
Cleveland: couldn't win with arguably the game's greatest player, then couldn't
keep said player ... and no marquee free agents want to go there
Atlanta: forever mediocre, and like most of the league's Southern cities (see: Charlotte and Orlando), not a great basketball town
Washington: just a terrible franchise that's not going anywhere good
L.A. Clippers: historically awful, the butt of so many jokes; sure, they're pretty good now, but I'm confident Donald Sterling will find a way to screw it up ... and the Lakers own L.A., and likely always will
New Orleans: just ... meh; I don't care
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