Nba will take a harder look at expansion, commissioner silver says
The decision to take a harder look at expansion wasn't totally unexpected, since the notion of adding clubs has been a talking point for several years. Cities like Las Vegas and Seattle—long perceived to be the front-runners should the NBA decide to expand past its current 30-team footprint—will surely continue to push to be the eventual picks, and Silver himself has said previously that he expects expansion will happen at some point. The next board of governors meeting will likely take place sometime in September.
Expansion has long been a complicated issue, since it'll mean that the current owners will have decided to sell equity in a league that is on a financial roll right now. 'For every team you add, you're diluting the economics of the current league,' Silver said. A new series of media rights deals worth 76 billion kicks in for this coming season, franchise values across the league have soared, and the two most title-laden franchises in the NBA, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers—clubs that have combined for about half of the titles handed out in league history—are in the process of being sold with a combined valuation of at least 16.1 billion.
The Celtics are being sold to private equity mogul Bill Chisholm with a valuation of at least 6.1 billion, which was a record until the Buss family agreed to sell the Lakers to businessman Mark Walter—also the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers—with a valuation of 10 billion. The league has added seven franchises since 1988 but none since 2004. There has been several instances of rebranding and relocating since—most notably the Seattle SuperSonics moving to Oklahoma City in 2008 and becoming the Thunder—but the league has been at 30 teams for the past two decades.
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