Top Podcasts on NBA Expansion to Seattle & Vegas

“"If the NBA expansion is approved, the Oklahoma City Thunder will cede all Seattle-era history back to the Supersonics... What's the chances of the vote being passed and them having an NBA team in Vegas? What do you think the chances? 100%. Did you see? You do realize like this seven to ten billion dollars that goes in the other owners pockets yes that's how it works."”

“But with Vegas coming in. In 17, 18, it's been an immediate hit. I mean, the results on the ice been terrific. The capacity is the number one capacity of any NHL arena. They're at like 102.5 capacity... But it's an awesome setup. I went there for the Pro Bowl, so that sucked. But it's an awesome, awesome stadium, and it's pretty convenient.”

“I absolutely love it. I don't see a downside. What's it not? Someone explains to me what the downside is. Like, Oh, it dilutes the talent in the league. There's plenty of talent in the league. There's plenty of talent in this league. And a lot of it just doesn't play. And the other thing is I am, I am much less concerned about adding teams.”

“But if they do this, it's a money grab. And they can say, it's like, more jobs for everybody. Okay, cool. This is a money grab. This is going to make the league worse. I will plant my flag in that because we are just going to have more teams doing all the same shit that we hate now. this tanking stuff.”

“They're moving forward with expansion in the NBA. And it's going to be a cost for an expansion team in the NBA between $7 and $10 billion. I was told that the Fenway group was going to be bidding or thought to be bidding on the Vegas team. Maybe, like I can't imagine what else LeBron's going to want to do. And that seems to be the natural progression.”

“The tradeoff obviously is rather than getting a one out of 30 slice of everything, they're going to get a one out of 32 slice of everything. thing i i think the example of the las vegas raiders has pointed out the trick bag about putting a team in las vegas is will the home team feel like the home team um the you'll always you'll well in the past at least we could have assumed you'd always have people who wanted to come into las vegas just to find an excuse and they come to watch their teams but as you can see las vegas is not uh cracking like it once was.”

“I just say it's i just think for to be the fifth professional team um it's not a huge market and i'm not really sure what vegas is going to look like 10 years from now whether it's better or worse like what but why wouldn't nashville have a team if we're just doing this over again like just to be clear seattle should have a team but i've been saying that for 20 years people know where i stand on seattle seattle should have a team i don't know if we have to have expansion to get seattle a team when i think there's some a couple franchises that we have to really seriously look at and i know it doesn't seem like they 100 want to have that conversation because i'd rather get the expansion fee so which is this is what i said thursday it's a pure money grab this is a money grab it's not good for the league i don't think expansion is good for the league”

“Seattle should have never had lost their team and should have a team. And I'm all in on either we relocate and give them a team, we have expansion. Seattle has to have a team. I don't personally think we should expand. I think there's other teams we could move around whatever but if we're talking about what the other team should be and you have kansas city which i think could could potentially have a real case.”

“The NBA is expanding for the first time in over 20 years. The existing 30 owners in the NBA unanimously voted for the league to look at adding teams in Las Vegas and Seattle. And what blows my mind is the price tags being thrown around. The league expects the bids for each new team to be seven to $10 billion each. Personally, though, as an NBA fan, I have mixed feelings about this. I think there are like 10 teams actively trying to lose games right now, and we're going to be adding two more teams.”

“The groundwork is being laid. The NBA will hold a vote at the Board of Governors meetings March 24th and 25th. They are exploring adding expansion teams in Las Vegas and Seattle, and they would be targeted for play 2028-2029 season per Shams. Okay. I've been waiting for it. I don't think it's a secret to anybody, but that's good. Now we have a time frame here for that Las Vegas and Seattle.”

“"Breaking news, man. Yeah, it's official now. Vegas and Seattle will have those expansion teams, man. Coming soon. So it's going to be some new blood in the NBA, man. More opportunities. What's the deal? What's team going on getting? Vegas. He ain't going to do it. Too much money."”

“The other big thing that happened related to this was Adam Silver's press conference yesterday announcing that the legal explorer expansion officially in Seattle and Las Vegas. And I'm cool with all that. And then the strongest language I've ever heard about tanking when he said, we're going to stop this full stop. We're going to change this full stop. There's a consensus about changing it.”

“I think the talent is there if the incentives are tweaked to make abject tanking less profitable... if you going to add two more teams and 30 more roster spots or whatever it not all talent is not the same... you maybe want to spread the top talent out a little bit more. Now, there are all sorts of dangerous consequences to that.”