Rumor: NBA Expansion?
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It would be hilarious if the Nets move to Montreal, but I highly doubt Adam Silver would let them leave Brooklyn with that market
murksiderock
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This is easy, tge Charlotte Hornets.
Peruvian Connect
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Suns, Bucks & Clippers the only ones not making money
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Silver continues to make it clear that domestic expansion isn't something he cares about. He wants European expansion. This is hilarious
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Update Simmons is claiming the expansion back on the agenda BUT its Vegas or Seattle not both. The NBA will settle for 31 teams. How will that even work?
edit: maybe they just go back to two divisions in each conference and send Minnesota out east
Update Simmons is claiming the expansion back on the agenda BUT its Vegas or Seattle not both. The NBA will settle for 31 teams. How will that even work?
edit: maybe they just go back to two divisions in each conference and send Minnesota out east
Bill Simmons has NBA news.
Buried in his "The Mailbag Makes a Dramatic Return" episode of his podcast, the Boston Celtics die-hard fan and basketball analyst is very much plugged into the hot gossip of the league, and according to him, the NBA will only have one expansion team between Seattle and Las Vegas.
And cue the sad trombone, it will not be the return of the Seattle Sonics, still the biggest travesty in the history of the league that the sports-crazed city lost their beloved SuperSonics.
(To add salt to the wound, the former Sonics are the reigning NBA champions as the Oklahoma City Thunder.)
So if you're a Sonics fan, don't read any further.
"There is some Vegas buzz building again," Simmons said answering one of the questions of realignment if Seattle and Las Vegas were added. "I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that the league adds one more team, not two, and that they have 31 teams, and they jump on this Vegas market while there's a real opportunity and real money behind it."
Vegas has always been the must-have market in the last decade for professional sports teams, although that is still a major disservice to Seattle, which deserves all four major sports too. Maybe even more so.
"And the price would have to be, my guess, what I've been told, is somewhere between $7 and $8 billion," Simmons continues. "At least $7, because that's... basically what the Celtics got... So let's say it's... $7.5 billion for a new Vegas team... Every team gets $250 million cash. They don't have to share it with the players... Just money into their pockets. And they'd be sacrificing going from a one-30th media rights to a one-31st media rights [slice]."
Our only question is, couldn't the return of the Sonics fetch the same price? And hasn't the Vegas tourism economy been struggling lately? It seems like there should at least be proper due diligence, especially given the recent scandals with the league and gambling.
"The expansion was dead," Simmons concludes. "I think they moved toward this NBA Europe thing. But there's some Vegas buzz again. I'm just telling you. And I look forward to other people reporting this down the road. And not mentioning this podcast."
We've left a paper trail for you Mr. Simmons. Now let's see if you're right!
NBA leaning towards only one choice between Seattle, Las Vegas for expansion team
Bill Simmons claims to have the latest intel that the NBA will only have one expansion team, not two as originally believed.www.si.com
That makes no sense imo, if they expand to 31, then they have to expand to 32. They can wait a few years, the NHL didn’t expand to 32 right away either, but the pandemic pushed that plan back a season. So if they expand it’s gonna be 32. But doesn’t need it’s two teams right away.
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Seattle over Vegas always. Seattle and the Pacific Northwest in general seems to have a much stronger basketball culture from grassroots to college. Vegas is also too small to be 4- sport city. Their population is much smaller than Seattle.
Rasille
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Silver dragging this along because he really doesn’t want to expand
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