NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says Las Vegas is “definitely on [the] list” of cities under consideration for expansion franchises.
Las Vegas has been mentioned as an NBA destination many times before and the timetable for when the league will add new franchises to its existing group of 30 clubs is unclear.
After this season, the NBA has another year on its $24 billion, nine-year media rights deal and Silver has long said that serious expansion talks won’t happen until the new media deal is finalized.
In an interview with ESPN, Silver said the NBA “wants to figure out what its media relationships are going to look like but then will turn to expansion.”
Las Vegas already plays host to the NBA's primary summer league, has a successful WNBA franchise in the two-time defending champion Aces, has been the site of All-Star weekend and was where the semifinals and final in this season's inaugural in-season tournament took place.
