NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN on Wednesday that Las Vegas is “definitely on our 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. The NBA has another year after this season 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.
“We want to figure out what our media relationships are going to look like but then we will turn to expansion,” Silver said again Wednesday in the interview with ESPN, one of the league’s media partners.