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After NBA commissioner Adam Silver talked more seriously about expansion, league officials made a concerted effort to downplay the inevitability of expansion.
It’s widely believed the NBA will expand for the first time since rounding out to 30 teams in 2004 partly to recoup losses from the pandemic. Returning to Seattle as part of the process is almost a given (with Las Vegas as the other likely city) now that the arena issues that led to the Supersonics leaving for Oklahoma City in 2008 have been resolved.
The concept of expansion is fairly simple: Current owners agree to divide future revenue among more teams in exchange for an immediate injection of cash. That becomes more appealing in the aftermath of coronavirus-caused shortfalls.
Seattle is a logical location for an expansion team. A second city is more wide open, though Las Vegas is the most common guess.
Expansion isn’t certain. But, at this point, more people are discussing when than if.
BigusDickus099 on June 10th, 2021 at 15:27 UTC »
Harden will straight show up to games in Las Vegas with zero sleep and strippers on both arms...its destiny for him to play for Vegas.
King_Of_Pants on June 10th, 2021 at 14:11 UTC »
It's still a nothing article, just like all the other ones prior.
Even the article itself links to another article saying the NBA won't even talk about it until 2022. Until then it's just people speculating based on the fact we know an expansion will eventually come.
A more accurate headline would be: "Widely believed NBA will add expansion teams at some point in the future."
That 'some point' could be 5, 10 or 20 years from now. There doesn't seem to be a mad rush to get it done.
DangerousCommittee5 on June 10th, 2021 at 13:57 UTC »
2 new teams in the West so 1 team will move to the East. Minnesota? Memphis?