Where Will the NBA Expand Next? Top Contenders Revealed!
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- 🏀 Wondering where the NBA might expand next? In this video, we dive deep into the hottest contenders for the next wave of NBA expansion teams. From bustling metropolises to cities hungry for professional basketball, we explore the potential locations that could soon host their very own NBA franchises. Join us as we analyze each city's market size, fan base enthusiasm, arena readiness, and more to uncover which cities might just land a spot in the NBA's future expansion plans. Don't miss out on this insider look into the exciting possibilities of NBA expansion-subscribe and hit the bell icon so you never miss an update on the league's next big moves! 🌟
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Seattle should be 1st priority
That’s what I’m saying they should be an automatically getting a new team 💯
It is and it's a DONE deal..
HELL TF NO!
God damn right. The Sonics are such an iconic team, it's so weird having an NBA without them.
They are gonna be one. And if the grizzlies weren’t in Memphis. Nashville would have been the second
1. Seattle
2. Vancouver
3. Vegas
4. Kansas City
5. Nashville
Vancouver? Lol. Are u high?
No with alot better ownership, management, drafting and GM they could do better.
The comissior already said he would like to return to Vancouver and if Seattle gets there team back instant rival
Pittsburgh
@@BAKER22-l4u You're high for not putting Van on that list only city bigger on the list is Seattle, not to mention it's got more affluent people than all those place, and it's denser and easier to sell out. The MLS team sells 23,000 tickets a game and a CFL team sells 25,000. NBA is much larger leagues than those easy sell outs..... Not to mention Vancouver had the same attendance as Memphis grizzlies currently do and the cities has more than 1 million more people than it did when it moved. Montreal is better than Kanas or Nashville
😎Montgomery, Alabama needs NBA team🤔
The most likely expansion locations will be out west, Seattle & Las Vegas so that they could place the Timberwolves in the Eastern Conference. Some people could argue Memphis or New Orleans move to the east instead because they are technically further east than Minneapolis, but Minnesota makes more sense to be in the Eastern Conference and be on the same division as the Chicago Bulls Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers, as examples, because 1) the other top North American sports leagues have Minnesota have a rivalry with Chicago 2) all of the Timberwolves current Western division rivals are too far away from them, and 3) it reduces travel time for Timberwolves whenever they go on the road
@@Kevin-Green I think New Orleans and Memphis will go east before Minnesota. Really good thought process though and totally with you.
I get what you're saying, but I think Memphis will be the team to move east before Minnesota or New Orleans.
@@Skinnyd4 it is fair to say that Memphis should move to the Eastern Conference once Seattle and Las Vegas join the Western Conference, but the Minnesota Timberwolves closest division rivals are the Oklahoma City thunder which are 788 miles away from Minneapolis and the Denver nuggets which are 914 miles away. Think about it, the Timberwolves already at a disadvantage due to how far away their closest division rivals are whatever the Timberwolves go on the road. If the Timberwolves were to be in the Eastern Conference, there are closest division rivals would-be Milwaukee and Chicago, two cities that are significantly much closer to Minneapolis than Oklahoma City and Denver. Anyways, Memphis or New Orleans would technically make more sense geographically since they are further east than Minneapolis, but Minneapolis for the most part had rivalries with Chicago in others major United States sports leagues. You are not wrong.
IMO I think more consideration should be given to a complete re-shuffle of divisions and conferences to improve travel times and time zone changes etc.
However, the entire schedule should be better balanced. At present you can be the best team in your division and in a weak conference and come out with a record much better than you are, potentially gain homecourt based on an easier schedule. A proper round robin (home and away), followed by pool play (pools set based on round robin records) to round out the 82 games - then top 16 teams make the playoffs, with the 8 most west teams (time zone, then coordinates) and the 8 most east teams make the playoffs (instead of just 1v16 format because money). Play-in game/teams only apply if team below top 16 is within 1-2 games. Home court stays with the bracket slot not the better team (so an 8 seed can steal from the 1 and then hold all the way to the finals).
When Glen Taylor finally gives up control of the Timberwolves, let hope the new owners don’t move the team to Seattle or Kansas City.
Kansas City deserves another chance to have a NBA team and should play in the eastern conference in their time frame honestly
If KC were to get a team, they would be put in the same conference as OKC. They would be a western conference team for sure, they are on the western side of the Mississippi
@@braynk but you look at the geometry standpoint thought
They should've brought Seattle back a long time ago. Look how many teams Los Angeles has.
How many teams does LA have? 1/2 a team? Lakers are old and the clips are broken. Put the best of both of those teams together and I don't think they get out of the 1st round
Going with Seattle for tradition and Las Vegas because of the size of that market. Plus, geographically both make a lot of sense.
The Grizzlies and Raptors were not the last expansion teams.. What about the Charlotte Bobcats who are now the Hornets? That's how there is a New Orleans Pelicans franchise, who were originally the Hornets
Charlotte Hornets came first the they moved to New Orleans. For the record all Charlotte records ( old and new Hornets plus the Bobcats) belong to The Hornets. The New Orleans Hornets and Pelicans records belong to The Pelicans.
@lamontbradford4630 I know, but that's not what this video said.. It said the last NBA expansion was Toronto and Vancouver lol
The New Orleans Pelicans are the Charlotte Hornets that came into the league in the '80s, but I think you're right about the current Hornets, who took on that identity when the Pelicans changed their name. I want to say they showed up around 2005?
As a Pelicans fan, he didn't even have N. O. on the NBA map. This youtuber is evidently not an NBA fan because he's done a horrible job at explaining teams that relocated to expansion. Plus, he's looked at international expansion possibilities, but not the limitations and challenges that follow: logistics, players' legal problems, players housing and investment in realestate, families, schools, etc... it's one thing in Canada where similar laws exist, Mexico is a pipe dream.
Seattle Sonics
Oklahoma City Thunder
Seattle Super Sonics
There is no other answer.
I miss the Supersonics. Shawn Kemp was my all time favorite player
I think you flipped the original Hornets. They went from Charlotte to New Orleans. For the 2014-'15 season, the Bobcats rebranded back to the Hornets while New Orleans became the Pelicans.
1 Seattle
2 Mexico City
3 Vegas
4 Nashville
5 Kansas City
6 Quebec
NBA can not add only 1 expansion team in next round since NBA would have an ODD number of teams. They're gonna add 2 teams which will be in Seattle and Las Vegas, and both teams will be in the Western Conference and then the NBA is going to move the New Orleans Pelicans and the Memphis Grizzlies to the Eastern Conference where they should've been all along geographically speaking.
@@itinservice I share this exact sentiment.
I'm amused years on this is still happening, but at least this wasn't on TV like what happened on ESPN. If 2 teams are added in the West. Only ONE Western team can move East. Cause the end result needs to be adding 1 team to each conference.
Off topic. The Dallas should be in the NFC South. While Tampa Bay should be in the NFC East.
Memphis should move east where should be anyway.
Only memphis would move east
New Orleans to Charlotte, you got that backwards. The Hornets moved to NOLA and Benson changed the name to Pelicans a few years ago and allowed Jordan to change the name of the Bobcats to Hornets back to original name of their previous team.
I was like WTF when I heard that. It’s also the second team to play in New Orleans, the Jazz being the first.
montreal
Yeah Montreal Quebec bro ❤❤
After Seattle and Vegas got theirs...
Lol..NO chance
Bobcats were an expansion team post -1995
Seattle, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Kansas City
I think the NBA has the potential to expand to 40 teams in the future: 20 in the west and 20 in the east.
- San Diego
- Baltimore
- Pittsburgh
- Las Vegas
- Kansas
- Nashville
- Seattle
- New Mexico
- Vancouver
- Buffalo
@@bonzobonanza maybe by 2040… but as Kevin Garnett once said, anything is possible!
Don’t for get Hartford
The NBA sucks too much now to have 40 teams. Maybe The NFL could expand to 40 teams.
@@lamontbradford4630 American layers are corny now but European players got better fundamentals
@@lamontbradford4630RIGHT FR THO, AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT ONE 💯 , BUT I LOVE THE NBA, AND WNBA THO, BUT LOVE THE NFL EVEN MORE CAUSE THE NFL IS OFC MORE OF A PRO HISTORY LEAGUE MORE THAN THE NBA, AND WNBA 💯.
Seattle and Mexico City will be the best places for basketball
Seems like Kansas City is constantly just barely under the radar for nba and nhl expansion. We would support one, but no one has enough money and desire to give us one.
San Diego, Louisville and Pittsburgh deserve a look as an NBA team too
Totally agree! I think SD is tough considering the market but Pittsburg would be awesome!
@@NBAXCLUSIVE yup Pittsburgh would be the steel curtain of the NBA
@@NBAXCLUSIVE I know SD will be hard considering the market but could work and besides cali is all about the dough
No they don’t. It’s Seattle and Vegas
@@stefanharris659 Seattle and Vegas I believe are definitely the next two cities that will get an NBA franchise.
Seattle & Las Vegas r definitely locks 4 an expansion franchise. Pittsburgh Kansas City Nashville & St. Louis r also great choices
Nashville will never happen because Memphis wouldn't allow it. 32 teams is the perfect number for a sports league. Seattle and Vegas. Each new team lowers the odds of championships for other teams. So a sports league can't just endlessly create expansion teams.
It should be Seattle because they have a fan base already since they had the SuperSonics and the city won a championship which was taken away bc of okc and I hope kd come back
The biggest question is - will the league delay expansion long enough that LeBron James can be a party to an ownership group.
Reality is they should have considered it last TV rights deal, not proceeded and learned from that how opportune the moment would be and done it with this TV rights deal.
Last Vegas, Kansas City, Canada, Mexico,
Seattle I think is an inevitably.
Vegas will probably get that second slot.
KC is a maybe.
I don't see Mexico CIty happening because if they went outside the US, Canada would happen first.
Nashville, I think is a no-go simply because someone will have the idea to move the Grizzlies to the Eastern Conference, which could make more sense for their logistica and bottom line.
No Montreal? The metro is literally bigger than Seattle or Las Vegas… Plus why does California have 4 teams? While Canada who is the same size only has one?
@@seananthony7494 fair points.
The big Montreal problems are weather (it's horribly cold by NBA standards, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Chicago and Minnesota would be the closest things in existing NBA markets), taxes (even in the absence of jock taxes, Quebec taxes are atrocious) and, to a lesser extent, international travel.
Language, while brought up before, is mostly a front office problem, considering that one can live in Montreal without speaking French (just not necessarily everywhere in the city), and the front office will have to deal with the fans and the media more than individual players will.
@@A350Airways The Language barrier would be easier to navigate then it would in Mexico City, there is a higher percentage of English Speakers in Quebec then there is Mexico, also it would be a huge free agent destination for the French speakers in the league.
Like Victor Wembanyama, Joel Embiid, Rudy Gobert, and this year’s first and second picks are French. Not including next year’s lottery picks are looking more and more French.
Seeing how hard Montreal is wanting a NBA team I wouldn’t be surprised if they offer the NBA some tax breaks. But I think they are a more likely pick than Mexico City or Kansas City.
@@seananthony7494there’s also more and more players going into the league from Montréal or the province of Quebec. Montréal would become a big market franchise
Y'all had the grizzlies at one time and let them get away.
And California has four teams because California has a bigger population than Quebec does.
Vegas and Seattle will get it this round but I’d love to see one go to Mexico City one day.
2 NBA teams in TN? Nashville would be better off with an MLB team. Seattle and LV should be #1 and #2 for expansion teams.
Seattle and Las Vegas
Honestly I don’t know why Louisville is not a top contender.
Correction: there hasn’t been an NBA expansion team since 2004, when the Charlotte Bobcats had their inaugural season. The original Hornets franchise moved from Charlotte to New Orleans in 2002, and then Charlotte got a new team in 2004 with the Bobcats moniker and the number of NBA teams was raised from 29 to 30. In 2013, Bobcats ownership purchased the Hornets-rights from New Orleans including the original Charlotte Hornets’ history and records
Regarding the potential for future expansion: I would wager that we will get 4 expansion teams within the next 15 years. This due to 1) “too much” parity resulting from the new CBA, 2) the play-in tournament has removed the “middle class” of teams and has thusly created a big divide between the good to great teams and the bad teams, and 3) there has been an influx of talent into the NBA from non-US countries and the “wealth” needs to be spread out (both in terms of talent but also payroll). My guess is that we will see US expansion by 2030 with my odds-on favorites being Seattle (for historic reasons) and Las Vegas (due to financial reasons), however, if gambling is deemed too much of a risk in Vegas I would put my money (ironically) on Kansas City due to fan interest, market size, and geographic location. Then by 2040, I would wager that we get at least one international team with Mexico City and Montreal being at the top of my list of cities due to market size and location (maybe Vancouver just edges Montreal as the Canadian team for historical reasons) with LV or KC as US dark horses depending on what happens within the next 6 years
@@fredfabric noted. Thank you
@@fredfabric interesting thought process. I’m right there with you. I think Seattle and Vegas are next no matter what!
@@NBAXCLUSIVEdon’t know that for sure because other cities are interesting too. I would not be surprised if they expand to 4 cities.
@@dreamcage1801 that would be great for the NBA if they expand 4 teams!
I know it'll never happen but I just want Mississippi to get SOMETHING ONE DAY
Would be nice. But the Grizzlies are right on the Tennessee-Mississippi line, and the Pelicans are very close to Mississippi as well. The league might be afraid to put another team in the area due to fears of oversaturating the market based on population.
Vegas and Seattle will get them
I'd love it if Ballmer would just buy the Lakers and move them into that crazy new building.
Clippers can go to Seattle or Vegas.
Whoever owns the Nets can buy the Knicks and the Nets can go elsewhere.
Utah should move to Vegas.
I think there are plenty of star quality players to expand but with all the load management and injuries, 30 or maybe even 25 teams seems like you'd be more likely to have a good game every night.
Might be fun to hit new markets a different way, get creative.
Have the In Season be the whole season in neutral locations, Nashville Kansas City, Louisville etc
In Season Tournament
alternate home game:
Atlanta - Birmingham
Boston - Providence
Brooklyn - Syracuse
Charlotte - Greenville SC
Chicago - Des Moines
Cleveland - Cincinnati
Dallas - El Paso
Denver - CheyenneWY
Detroit - Ft WayneIN
Golden State - San Jose
Houston - MonterreyMX
Indiana - Louisville
LA Clippers - San Diego
LA Lakers - Mexico City
Memphis - St Louis
Miami - Kingston,JM
Milwaukee - Green Bay
Minnesota - Winnipeg
New Orleans - Nashville
New York - UncasvilleCT
Oklahoma City - Kansas City
Orlando - Tampa
Philadelphia - Atlantic CityNJ
Phoenix - Albuquerque
Portland - Seattle
Sacramento - Fresno
San Antonio - Austin
Toronto - Vancouver
Utah - Las Vegas
Washington - Pittsburgh
I’m just not sure if the Grizzlies can coexist with a Nashville team. Not that Nashville isn’t a good city, but Memphis is the smallest market in the league
Vegas and Seattle will get an expansion team first but KC, SD, Pittsburgh, Nashville, etc will definitely be in the running for the next round after this.
Pittsburgh is not a basketball town not even close. It's just a football town. KC, SD and Nashville have no chance and wouldn't support BB now or in the past
I’m pretty sure Nashville will never be in consideration for a NBA team unless the Grizzlies leave Memphis. Tennessee is not a state big enough to support two teams from the same league.
San diego, pittsburgh, louisville, kansas city, virginia beach, seattle, vegas, montreal, vancouver and mexico city
Virginia Beach no way, all the others I can see, with a big population growth. All the international cities I'm not so sure tbh
@@kevinchang232 the next expansion draft is gonna be Seattle and Vegas then the next is gonna be montreal, vancouver and Mexico City Adam silver already said it and sooner than later virgins Beach is getting a nba Arena they had a pro team back in the 70s the squires
@@fadercreekname it neptunes
Virginia Beach? Pittsburgh? Lol
San Diego, Kansas City, Seattle, and Vancouver have all had a franchise and all have proven they can’t support them. San Diego has had two teams.
Give other cities a chance to have an expansion team.
Seattle should've been having a team before now. But I don't think Sliver will allow it because he's a old commissioner crony. Las Vegas and some other city will get a teams before Seattle.
Pittsburgh and Leominster, Massachusets.
Nashville and Las Vegas. Put the expansion teams in markets that have never had an NBA franchise, and let them show they’re capable of supporting them.
No on NBA expansion to Seattle. They couldn’t support the SuperSonics last time. Theirs been talks about the Timberwolves being moved there. I vote no on that. If they want a team, get the Kings to move there. Sacramento is a much smaller market than the Twin Cities.
Vancouver and Seattle deserve a 2nd chance
expand with 4 teams: Seattle, Vegas playing in the west, Nashville and KC playing in the east
Seattle and las Vegas are front liners
Probably going to be Seattle and Vegas, you have to keep the two conferences even, they probably move the T-Wolves or Pelicans to the East.
@@Raphmatic5000 possibly Memphis too!
I wish the would do a 4 team expansion 😔 sadly that will probably never happen
Seattle and Las Vegas to be next hopefully,good friends!!!👍🏾
You mean Charlotte to New Orleans with Charlotte getting an expansion team to replace the relocated one (Bobcats until 2014, Hornets since)
Seattle in the west and Montreal in the East.
Bring back Seattle
1-Vegas, 2-Seattle, 3-KC those are the easiest and most logical choices
702 _&_ Seattle
Seattle and Vegas are going to be the next two cities getting NBA franchises.
Seattle KC and Darkhorse Louisville
KC and Louisville have NO chance
@@BAKER22-l4uKC has mentioned recently though
Seattle, Las Vegas, Omaha & Kentucky ❤🙏👍
Let's expand to Canada. Look at what just happened in the Stanley Cup Final. Yes there are a lot of Basketball Fans in Canada as well. Calgary before Edmonton though. Calgary is building a brand new Arena for the NHL Flames.
Seriously....everybody knows !!!! Seattle and las vegas ..... for nba with 32 team 16 in 2 conférence..... we knows since 5 years!!!!!
Maybe one in Montreal besides The Seattle Supersonics.
I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Sonics and Blazers fan. Japanese-American and male. I was 6 years old and finishing up kindergarten, when the Sonics won the championship. At my elementary school was a mural of Sonics players, numbers 1, 8, 24 and 43 (Gus Williams, Lonnie Shelton, Dennis Johnson, and Jack Sikma). 1993-94 was one of the BEST years of my life (not even that first round loss to Denver could ruin my year), and 1996 was pretty special, too. I'm a "jersey guru," and have a LOT of jerseys, and here is a sampling of my Sonics jerseys: Hersey Hawkins, Brent Barry, Wally Szczerbiak, Luke Ridnour, Don MacLean, Jon Sundvold, Russ Schoene, Vitaly Pitapenki, Steve Hawes, Robert Swift, Kendall Gill, Ervin Johnson, Jerome James, Aaron Williams, Peja Drobnjak, Vladimir Radmanovic, Nick Collison, Kevin DuRant and Rashard Lewis.
@@unappealingundesirable2826 this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
God damn dude, a Robert Swift jersey? You go deep! Lol
St. Louis?
I've lived in Oregon for 23 years. But, I lived west of Seattle for 14 1/2 years before. I am loyal to all the Seattle teams: the Huskies; the Seahawks; the Sonics; the Kraken; the Sounders; and the Mariners! I hope the Sonics return!!!!
The last expansion was in 2004 when the Bobcats joined.
T-Mobile makes too much damn money. Lol
I want to see Seattle back.
And Las Vegas.
But I miss Seattle.
Shawn kemp and Gary Peyton.
Expand by six (Seattle, LV, KC, Montreal, Louisville, Virginia Beach), go big.
2nd apron was made in preparation for the expansion.
The last expansion team to join the NBA was the Charlotte Bobcats in 2004. Not the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995 😅
Damn, AI video 😂
@@RudieObias no AI video, genuine error on my part but rest assured I will improve from here!
Seattle and Kansas are the only ones l would consider out of those.
how come?
Seattle and Vegas seem like the most likely to me
The best that's will be seattle
Vegas, Seattle, and Tampa!
@@JoseAguiar-cz9vk Tampa is an interesting one!
Seattle 💚🏀 and Kansas City ❤🏀
BALTIMORE
Anchorage😉
Conneticut
Connecticut won't get any team
I still miss the Whalers
I think that Vegas, and Pittsburgh would be ideal
It was charlotte to New Orleans
Seattle and Vegas were already in the books way before this video. Stop getting the other cities excited lol
Lmao 💯🤣🤣🤣
If Seattle doesn’t get a team I will never watch a NBA game again.
@@stefanharris659 😯
@@NBAXCLUSIVE are you just a bot?
@@stefanharris659 are you?!
Seattle has a fantastic MLS team and the creator of this video ignores them . 😂, that’s when I checked out
Vegas & Seattle
They should add 6 teams not 2
No. 32 is the perfect number because of its symmetry. It can be easily broken down to 1. Plus every new expansion team lowers the odds for other teams winning a championship.
I feel like since there isn't ofc a magenta, or a brown team in PRO SPORTS INCLUDING PRO BASKETBALL I REALLY think that the NBA should get a magenta, or a brown NBA team as a second, or third color INSTEAD of just RED almost all the time IMO because in PRO BASKETBALL there's isn't ofc a magenta, or a brown team in the NBA INCLUDING. So I feel like atp it'll be AMAZING, and EVEN better if we could HOPEFULLY get a magenta, or a brown NBA team as a second, or third color for a change if anything INSTEAD of just RED most of the time since the expansion for the NBA is coming soon cause there's ALREADY alot of teams in the NBA that are already red lmao 💯.
Kentucky should get a team! They love basketball
They should stick with the University of Kentucky Men's Basketball Team
Seattle without a doubt is number one but for me I think Pittsburgh would make a great NBA expansion
@@jonblankenship5908 💯
Clay Bennett is the Art Modell/Robert Irsay of the NBA
@@christopherdonaldson8231 💯
They need a team in Adfton Cwhyoming. 😊
Montréal should be a strong candidate. Montréal would also become a large market team
No it wouldn't. The Expos were considered a small market team.
Same for Kansas City
@@daviejz6698 The expos were mismanaged by the league after the original owners sold it. The expos was a large market club with some of the biggest sales for many years
Expansion is on the horizon, and with the CBA completed and Media Rights Deal beginning its negotiation period, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the NBA expands. I strongly believe Seattle and Las Vegas will be awarded teams in the next expansion round, but given Adam Silver and Marc Tatum’s rhetoric surrounding Mexico City, it is reasonable to believe that Mexico City will be considered as well. However, these are some logistical issues with expansion that the NBA simply cannot avoid:
Altitude- This one is huge. Mexico City has an elevation of 7,349 ft, more than 2,000 feet more than Denver. The altitude is visibly a problem for players. This isn’t the Olympics. This isn’t baseball. This isn’t football. In the NBA, players do not have days to prepare for events in extremely high elevation. They will have to fly into Mexico City, play that night, and then fly out the next morning. When the Heat played the Spurs in December in Mexico City, the entire Heat team, one of the best conditioned teams in the NBA, looked incredibly exhausted. 41 games in Mexico City simply is not realistic. Even for the G league team, opposing players such as Willie Cauley-Stein have had to sit out games due to the altitude. Imagine Embiid or Zion playing in Mexico City.
Travel: This one isn’t as big of an issue, but it’s hard to ignore. Yes, Mexico City to NYC is a shorter flight than NYC to LA, but you have to consider that Mexico City is far from EVERY NBA team. The nearest NBA city from NYC is Philly, which is 94 miles. The nearest NBA city from Mexico City is San Antonio, which is 700 miles. Portland may be far from other NBA cities, but it is much closer to Sacramento and San Francisco than Mexico City is to San Antonio, and presumably Seattle when it returns will also be very close to Portland. Mexico City is out of the way for any road trip. Add the hassle of international travel and it becomes clear that travel would be an obstacle, regardless of what Mark Tatum might have said in December.
Desirability: I also strongly believe that players will not want to live in Mexico City. The country as a whole is less developed than Canada and the United States, and while Mexico City is very nice and cosmopolitan, it is still very culturally different than the United States and Canada, not to mention the language barrier that exists. Expecting players to move their families to Mexico City is something that I do not think is reasonable from the NBA's point of view. The NBPA does not have a direct say in expansion, but given how much the league front office and owners value players, it would be hard to imagine the NBA expanding to Mexico City against the will of the players. Again, Mexico City has world-class restaurants, clubs, and venues, but if players do not want to play in Toronto and especially did not want to play in Vancouver, Mexico City seems next to impossible. I mean, you cannot even drink the tap water in CDMX, and MLB and NFL players have reported getting sick from the food. The G-League players that rave about Mexico City are also making much less money, so the five star treatment they receive is a major step up from anything else they would get. NBA players are making much more money, so they would gain little from the cushy lifestyle that the G-League players in Mexico City have. Also, G-League players have fewer options to play basketball professionally, so they would be much more willing to play in Mexico City, but because NBA players have options, it is hard to imagine many players choosing Mexico City over the US or Canada. Keep in mind Mexico City has an HDI of 0.815, while the lowest US state, Mississippi, has an HDI of 0.866. These things matter when considering where players want to or would even tolerate playing and raising a family. Finally, CDMX can be very racist to black people, and anti-black behavior is unfortunately more tolerated in Mexico than the US or Canada, which would undoubtedly affect NBA players in Mexico City.
Safety: On paper, Mexico City is safer than some NBA cities, but it is the perception that still makes it an issue. The view is that because Mexico City is in Mexico, by extension Mexico City is unsafe. For this reason, the G-League team in Mexico needs armed security to and from games. Now, imagine how much additional security NBA players would need. The players would also effectively be made to live in a bubble in Polanco, which will probably create extra challenges for getting to and from games. Traffic and pollution are also absolutely horrendous. These are simply issues which do not exist in Seattle or Las Vegas. Edit: While Mexico City appears to have lower crime rates than many NBA cities, I strongly believe Mexican crime statistics are severely underreported compared to American crime statistics. Experts have indicated that over 90% of crimes go unsolved in Mexico, so it would not surprise me if Mexico City’s true crime rate is actually higher than any NBA city. Plus, Mexico police is much more corrupt than American/Canadian police on all levels, so that certainly doesn’t help.
Currency: Selling tickets in pesos, a currency much weaker than USD or CAD, and paying salaries in USD is also bound to be an issue.
Look, an NBA team in Mexico City is somewhat an intriguing idea, but from a logistical standpoint, it will be a disaster. I do largely think that Silver and Tatum's rhetoric regarding Mexican expansion has been that of PR to keep the Mexican market engaged, as well as to place pressure on Seattle or Las Vegas. Just my thoughts.
@@Kevin-Green really interesting though process and perspective. Thank you for sharing.
Very true points you’re taking into account here. I personally think maybe they should look at a city in Northern Mexico, in a bordering state. I immediately think about Monterrey, NL
Media rights are finalized too now
They will go to places that give the NBA the biggest expansion fee, it's that simple. Didn't know LeFraud wanted to own a franchise in Vegas, it explains why they dragging their feet. With NBA LOVING china, I wouldn't put a china team over a european or african team first.
PS. You forgot to put the New Orleans Pelicans on the map of NBA franchises.
@@marianchicago4002 thank you for the feedback.
It's a done Deal: Seattle & Vegas !!
@@michaelalley214 💯💯
Seattle and Las Vegas will be the next two expansion teams. After that, Vancouver should be next. They were royally screwed last time by historical ineptitude both on and off the court. The city has also changed a lot since the Grizzlies left. Preseason games always sell out and basketball has become much more popular since the Grizzly days.
@@highdough2712 STL or KC and then Pittsburgh or Louisville
@@dreamcage1801 Vancouver is much bigger than all of those except for St Louis and definitely wealthier than all of them.
@@highdough2712 STL would be great eastern conference expansion team with the bulls, pistons, Timberwolves, bucks, Cavs and pacers
@@highdough2712 what about Nashville?
Vancouver will never get another team because of what happened before with the Grizzlies.
A few years ago there was a rumour that the Kings were moving to Seattle
I remember that it was Chris Hansan that almost pulled it off
One India guy stopped that from happening and kept Kings in Sacramento
How about the Clippers to Seattle?
Vegas Seattle
Cheyenne Wyoming deserves a team
If Seattle rejoins nba I feel like they should try a new team name as well because the word super sonic is a character from saga/Nintendo and why not have a new Canadian team join as well out of all of sports nhl has the other teams on ice but what if we bring basketball over to the other side by the u.s right next to Washington.
@@joeydepaolo5250 I hear you but SuperSonics is such a classic name! Idk that they’d change it up.
Yeah and so was the Cleveland Browns and look how great that second franchise has done. POORLY!!! 😂
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 🤣🤣
Huntsville, AL has every high entitiy you can think of including NASA, Facebook etc
Brisbane Australia or London England
@@melbournechugging2999 😮
KD would be traded back to Seattle Supersonics by 2025 in exchange of Lottery Picks. Meanwhile, Lottery Picks from the Los Angeles Lakers would end up being traded to Las Vegas Aces. LeBron should already get a Coaching Job or START owning at least 1 NBA Team.
Can we get the Hawks back... 🙄