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The NBA has created a dynamic where your team is either a dynasty or a total non-factor, with no in-between or serious hope for a reversal of fortune. If your team is a non-factor and stumbles into a star, you are basically just watching the clock run down before he goes to a dynasty. There's no real purpose for a small-market fan to get emotionally invested in the team. Of the 4 big leagues, the NBA is by far the worst about this and it shows in the way its small markets are basically welfare cases surviving on sellouts by road team fans.
It's really hard to overstate how extreme this is in the NBA. The four franchises above have played a combined total of 104 seasons. In those 104 seasons, the only time any of them have ever won a 3rd round game was Orlando during a 2-year blip with peak Dwight Howard, and that blip ended when Howard... left to go to the Lakers.
The Raptors just shattered that theory. Raptors took nearly 2 decades to become relevant and then half a decade to make a championship team, but they managed to break through the dynasty's and with their win they increased their value 25% (over 500 mill) in one year. True, the NBA isnt a small market friendly league, but at the end of the day success makes the market. The Cavs or Golden State are the perfect example.
That's easy to say about a top-15 market like Detroit or Seattle.
When you talk about moving 4 NBA teams, you're talking about Seattle as BY FAR the biggest market, followed by a bunch of markets that would either be clearly oversaturated (Kansas City), in an unwinnable head-to-head with the NHL/NFL (Pittsburgh, Vegas, St. Louis, Nashville), or a market no better than the one they just left (Louisville, San Diego, Cincy, Baltimore). The options run out really fast.
Montreal is actually the biggest market (both population and TV), assuming the Canadian dollar bounces back in the near future. Although, I think the expos come back before the NBA moves to Montreal.