NBA Commissioner Adam Silver admitted there wasn’t much talk of expansion at this week’s meetings with the board of governors in New York.
But he did say the topic will be addressed at some point “this season”.
“There was not a lot of discussion in this meeting about expansion, but only largely because — not for lack of interest — it’s because we had said to [potential franchise suitors] that we’re not quite ready,” he said in the press conference. “It was something that we told our board we plan to address this season. We’re not quite ready yet. There’s interest in the process, and I think that we’re not there yet with having made specific decisions about markets or even frankly, to expand.
“It was something that we told our board we plan to address this season, and we’re not quite ready yet. But I think there’s certainly interest in the process, and I think that we’re not there yet in terms of having made any specific decisions about markets or even frankly to expand.”
The topic of expansion has been an ongoing one in the NBA community for a number of years.
Seattle and Las Vegas has been the most talked-about locations to set up new teams.
Veteran players like LeBron James and Kevin Durant have also expressed their interest in ownership or even management of those new teams.
It is something that gets brought up to Silver regularly and the Commissioner has said on multiple occasions that league was going to address expansion after sorting out new collective bargaining agreement and the new media rights deal.
The CBA was finalized in spring of 2023, while an agreement has been all but reached with broadcast partners Disney, Comcast and Amazon in the last few months.
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