They don’t want to pay him a max extension. If he gets last year’s numbers and they make the playoffs they’ll pay up.
Silver said that the NBA is considering expansion in part to get over the financial hurdles from the pandemic. Obviously expansion would bring back the Seattle Supersonics. The largest media market without an NBA team is Tampa-St. Pete (#12) which is slightly bigger than Seattle (#13). Tampa is currently hosting the Raptors at Amalie Arena (Lightning home ice). After that is St. Louis (#23), Pittsburgh (#24), and Baltimore (#26). Does Vancouver want back in? Any interest in Mexico City?
Kansas City and Las Vegas will make a push. For some reason Louisville thinks they have a shot, but I don’t see that happening.
Yeah. No hurry but he did put it out there. No doubt a lot of cities are going to shoot their shot. Hard to see anymore pro expansion happening anytime soon.
Nets look real good so far. They had a solid lineup before adding KD and Kyrie.
Pretty lazy Harden critiques. He’s been a solid defender for a couple seasons now. I doubt he brings more off court drama than Kyrie.