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Salt Lake City, Sacramento and Oklahoma City seem like odd choices considering that they're smaller markets that already have NBA teams in direct competition. I mean, SLC is smaller than Calgary... would anyone realistically suggest putting a NBA team in Calgary too?

Why not San Diego? It's much bigger than those three, there's no NBA competition, and it legitimately needs a new arena, the existing one won't work as it's very old and small. So I'm sure the local authorities would play ball on getting a new one built.