Mexico City Nba Expansion

The nba continued to expand its international footprint by announcing the addition of an nba g league franchise in mexico city.

Mexico city nba expansion. That ship might now be moving full speed forward. Expansion of the nba and an introduction to the next nba team isn t likely until at least 2025. Since the foundation of the charlotte bobcats in 2005 nba expansion has.

The prospect of putting a team in north america s largest. First the nearly 9 million people in the city and the 20 million in the metro area would make it the biggest market in the league. The nba announced thursday that capitanes a professional basketball.

An nba expansion team in mexico city makes a ton of sense on a couple of fronts. So will the nba expand. So where will the next nba city be.

Plus basketball is an international game. Mexico city has an enormous arena 22 300 seats and experience hosting nba games. Marc stein of the new york times had a big piece on the nba s renewed interest in all things mexico city this weekend.

Mexico in particular is working hard to position itself to be one of the league s focal points for growth and not just by expansion. A historic milestone the nba s g league announced plans to expand to mexico in 2020 before a regular season game between the dallas mavericks. The expansion of the national basketball association has happened several times in the league s history since it began play in 1946 the most recent examples of the expansion of the nba are the charlotte hornets and miami heat in 1988 minnesota timberwolves and orlando magic in 1989 toronto raptors and vancouver grizzlies in 1995 who relocated to memphis in 2001 and new orleans pelicans in.

On the matter of nba expansion commissioner adam silver has been quiet in recent years. The nba has played regular season games there in recent years. The nba is looking to expand its reach with mexico city as the most obvious first destination.