Say what you will about the NBA under Stern's leadership but they did a great job of making sure the NBA was in towns with only 1 other pro sport or in towns big enough to support a random team. OKC is big, but big enough for 1 sport... they wouldn't give 2 ***** about hockey and football would always be 2nd fiddle... yet basketball is enough to sell capacity and it was a good enough team already in Seattle to bring momentum. It's everything NOLA wished it had been before they brought them over and lost all their best players because of mismanagement.
I've never been but I've heard OKC is pretty great. I was always afraid they'd steal my team.