NBA This process has not been carried out since 2004
Ethe commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver, Attended to the media at World Mediaand before the 2020-21 season began. Silver hinted that on the subject of the coronavirus crisis, it will not look bad to increase the number of franchises.
“I think I’ve always said that the destiny of the league is that we expand at some point. I would say it has made us dust off some of the analysis on the economic and competitive impacts of expansion.n. We have dedicated a little more time to it than we had before the pandemic. But not to the point where the decision comes to the fore, ”the commissioner said.
“One of our goals is how to improve competition. That’s one of the things we keep thinking about as we consider expansion.”, Said Silver. “It’s an economic and competitive issue for us. We’ll keep studying it, but we spent a little more time on it than we did before the pandemic.”
If the expansion is confirmed, Seattle and Las Vegas will be the two cities chosen in addition to Mexico City. The increase in the number of teams, therefore, would lead to a redistribution of conferences, something that has been needed for several years. The last time it was expanded was the aggregation of Charlotte.