Warm weather. Rich history. Long-standing rivalries among the three teams that comprise the “Texas Triangle,” as well as a potential budding rivalry between two newer, small-market franchises in Tennessee and Louisiana.
Perhaps the NBA’s most competitive five-team grouping over the past decade on the court, the Southwest Division also features a handful of U.S. destination cities. The five spots are so well-known for something specific that the average American probably knows exactly what you’re talking about when you only use the nicknames: Big D, Space City, Bluff City, Big Easy and Alamo City.
In Part 2 of our Southwest Division roundtable during the ongoing 2020 basketball hiatus (read Part 1 here on best Southwest interviewees and users of social media), Pelicans.