In 2002, Charlotte Bobcats was admitted to start playing in the NBA from 2004. After this admission, the top basketball competition in the world had rumors of expansion more than once, but without result. Seattle lost its team to Oklahoma in 2008 and it always sounded like a possibility for the league to come back there.
Commissioner Adam Silver confirmed that the chance of expansion is pulsing, saying: “We spent more time than we were spending before the pandemic. We have been seeing some economic and competitive impacts that it could generate ”.
If the entry of a franchise to the competition is finally accepted, the economic revenue to be distributed among all the current teams would be greater than 1 billion dollars, a number that would be very useful considering the economic news that the Covid pandemic left.
“One of the problems we have is competitiveness. It’s no secret that we currently don’t have 30 competitive teams that can win a championship. We will continue analyzing and studying the expansion, it is an economic and competitive problem ”, analyzed Silver.
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