The death of the NBA's first great leaper should be prompt about what to elevate; what if sports events had the same product cycle as TV and movie franchises?
"There should be a four-team swap between Los Angeles, the Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz involving franchise names. Los Angeles has no real lakes, but Minnesota has over 12,000. New Orleans is jazzier than Utah, which has wolf sightings. Make it happen."
AKA, have LA and Utah give their franchise names back to the original cities that hosted them. Those are easy. I think the real art would be in figuring out a logical swap of all 32 team names. That might be a dangerous suggestion to make to anyone who likes to obsess about esoteric sports questions.
"There should be a four-team swap between Los Angeles, the Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz involving franchise names. Los Angeles has no real lakes, but Minnesota has over 12,000. New Orleans is jazzier than Utah, which has wolf sightings. Make it happen."
AKA, have LA and Utah give their franchise names back to the original cities that hosted them. Those are easy. I think the real art would be in figuring out a logical swap of all 32 team names. That might be a dangerous suggestion to make to anyone who likes to obsess about esoteric sports questions.