Louisville
How is Louisville never a horse in the Professional Sports Franchise race—especially with the NBA?! The largest city in Kentucky—a state with an excellent history of basketball—Louisville is a top 30 market with a population larger than NBA towns like Minneapolis, Sacramento, Miami, New Orleans, and Cleveland.
The city is a central point, an untapped area that is circled by Indianapolis, Memphis, Atlanta, Charlotte, and even Chicago for professional hoops. And if introducing an NBA squad to Nashville would cause too much of a stir with the Grizzles down in Elvis Town, then perhaps moving a tad north would be the next-best plan?
Odds: 3 out of 10
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