Expansion talks have obviously heated up in the last year or two and Seattle often gets brought up along with Las Vegas, although shouldn’t Seattle be by far the clear favorite for the first team with all of the other cities competing for the second spot?
Seattle is the largest market without a current NBA team and is 13th media market in the US. They had the SuperSonics before OKC essentially stole the team from Seattle and left the history for Seattle to reclaim once they got another team back. Speaking of NBA team, they had one for over 40 years and was only moved after a new owner bought the team and wanted to bring it back to his home market. There is plenty of funding for the ownership as shown with others buying teams to try to move them to Seattle (Kings) although the NBA shutting it down. They also have a brand new NBA ready arena that is ready to host the team that was created for Seattle’s NHL team and even left room to create NBA locker rooms. There is certainly no lack of money or interest in ownership groups based in Seattle that would be interested in purchasing a team. They still even host preseason games in Seattle because they know it’s a massive basketball market that lusts for their team back.
Considering all of this, isn’t it pretty clear that Seattle is by far the best city to expand to for expansion to go with places like Las Vegas and others competing for the second team instead?
Hell no it ain’t, it would be so on brand for the NBA to just tease Seattle then pull the rug out and say they going to Mexico or something like that
We’re getting two, Seattle and Vegas. But they can’t admit that because it would depress the expansion fee
It’s possible they do it over two years
Probably there or Monowl, Nebraska
Their team name? The Nebraska Nebraskans
Of all small places I feel like Nebraska (in Omaha anyways) could probably support a single professional team considering they’ve sold out over 400 consecutive games for their football program
they already said vegas and seattle. The Seattle ownership has been basically selected too
Vegas and Seattle will be next. Then do you move the T wolves and grizzle’s or even pelicans to the east to even out conferences?
Travel wise, it absolutely makes more sense to move MN to the east. They have to take insane long flights to Portland, Denver, etc too often. They should make an NFC North/AL Central equivalent with MN, MKE, CHI, IND, DET.
Grizzlies and Pelicans to the east imo.
Minneapolis is West of the Mississippi, Memphis and New Orleans are both East, so that’s my prediction.
Minneapolis is both east and west (as well as north and south) of the mississippi. It literally goes through the city. This argument makes no sense tbh.
Downtown and the stadium is west of the Mississippi it is not possible to be north or south of the Mississippi unless you are at its origin or mouth. (New Orleans is “north” but that is the east bank of the Mississippi
Downtown and the stadium are less than a mile from the river. I don’t think the NBA is going to take that into account, when the alternative saves travel miles (and thus money) for all teams.
If the NBA is smart, it’ll be the wolves. It’ll reduce travel miles for both the wolves and every other western conference team.
it’s vegas first because we don’t have public money to give the nba or something
Public money for what? The NBA-ready arena is already built, and suitors, such as the group that owns that area and the NHL team, want to put a bid for it.
KD linking up with Seattle and eliminating OKC from playoffs would be sweet karma
Us eliminating KD from the playoffs would be even sweeter karma
nah OKC stole a franchise and then fumbled a dynasty to save on luxury tax. wasted 9 years of KD’s prime
Stay salty loser. OKC to the finals this season enjoy your shitty hockey team and high school graduations in that new arena lmao
im not from seattle lol
What an incredibly sad username
Preach
Yes , the 2 expansion teams will be Seattle and Vegas
I mean nothing is guaranteed but I don’t know if the NBA could handle the backlash if Seattle was left out of the next expansion.
If so, I want to see KD end his career there.
I wish Tampa got a new team
Seattle and Vegas. Worst kept secret in sports
“Essentially stole” lol.
I’d bet on Vegas first.