On Tuesday night, a random tweet was sent into the Twitterverse stating that “multiple sources” had indicated that the NBA would be announcing expansion into Seattle and Las Vegas. Twitter did what Twitter does. It was retweeted hundreds and hundreds of times as third-party publications began making it their cover story to generate clicks in the dog days of the NBA offseason.
People had a field day with this. Thirsty fanbases were salivating at the possible return of professional men’s basketball coming (back) to their zip codes. Then came the debate of, “At least one team has to move East so who’s it going be?