Today, May 15th, a basketball game is being contested. It is an NBA playoff game 7 between two teams, the winner will move on to face the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals for a shot at the NBA finals.
I just thought two things were weird. The first being that the Western Conference will be represented by teams in the Central Time Zone, two hours ahead of the Pacific Zone usually associated with the "West" (not to forget Denver and Mountain Time). The possible teams are from Oklahoma City, Memphis, and Dallas.
The other thing I thought was weird from today's game is in the title of this post: these two teams used to be in close proximity, closer than even the relative proximity of Memphis and Oklahoma City. The Memphis Grizzlies used to be the Vancouver Grizzlies, and the Oklahoma City Thunder used to be the Seattle Supersonics.
The Sonics departure is fodder for another post altogether, but since both Corrie and my friend Sam are rooting for them today, I'll join them.
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