NBA Focused On Seattle and Las Vegas When It Comes To Expansion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2023
- The NBA will likely expand to 32 teams once its next set of media rights deals are completed. Las Vegas and Seattle are by far and away the frontrunners to land new teams.
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It appears from what everyone is saying that Vegas and Seattle are teams 31 & 32 but if the NBA expands to 36 eventually then I see Mexico City as LOCK for the 33rd or 34th team!!!! Mexico City is larger than New York City with over 21 million people in the city itself. (over 8 times larger than Vegas) Mexico City has 10's thousands of filthy rich people in areas of the city as beautiful as any city in the USA (the area of Polanco is like Beverly Hills). Mexico City already has a G-league team and is among the top in attendance and expanding to Mexico opens the market to 133 million Mexicans and a doorway to the rest of Latin America. Mexico City is only under 4 hours and 40 minutes by plane to NYC and 4 hours to LA so distance isn't a problem as for altitude the NBA has played over 30 NBA exhibition and regular season games there over the last 20 years (NBA wouldn't play that many games there IF NO INTEREST) without altitude being an issue for players including the present G-league team. I have visited Mexico City 3 times for work and altitude was never an issue for me and I am not an NBA athlete who should have ZERO issues dealing with it.
Look what Toronto did for the NBA, in the 90's NBA only had 2-4 Canadians like Rick Nash, Samuel Dalembert, Jamal Magloire, and Rick Fox now the NBA has over 45 Canadian players in the NBA and G-league combined. Canadian players like Shai Gigeous Alexander, Jamal Murray, RJ Barrett, Andrew Wiggins, Dillion Brooks, Luguentz Dort, Dwight Powell, Kelly Olynyk, Brandon Clarke, Tristan Thompson, Sheldon Sharpe, Benedict Mathurin, Trey Lyles, Joshua Primo, Lindel Wigginton, and Andrew Nembhard to name just a few of the 23 Canadian NBA players in 2022/23 season. If not for expansion to Canada many of those players would have never become NBA players.
I foresee the NBA expanding to 36 teams by maybe 2036 and I can see Seattle, Vegas, Mexico City, and Vancouver OR Montreal and two other US cities. Vancouver is larger than Vegas and Montreal is as big as Seattle. As for West vs East... if 4 of the 6 teams are Western teams then just one Western team needs to move east to keep the 18-18 ratio ... top candidate to move east would be Minnesota (is soooo far from all the other Western Teams) as they are very close to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Indianapolis while Memphis and New Orleans are already very close to the 3 Texas teams and even Oklahoma City.
Kansas City, Montreal, San Diego and Louisville should get an NBA team too
this would be good we need more teams to balance the game
Adding Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu Sports and redesigning the NBA app and League Pass will expand viewership. Moving 2 teams east like Memphis, New Orleans or Minnesota will fix a lot of travel issues.
Bring the NBA back to NBC please
Move Minnesota to the east
I really hope the Sonics return!!!
1.) Seattle
2.) Vancouver
Any other cities before them would be a crime.
They should expand to 4-6 teams in the NBA
Why not get all the independent basketball leagues in North America