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Top 5 Cities I Want to See Get an NBA Team: 1. Seattle 2. St. Louis 3. Las Vegas 4. Kansas City 5. Vancouver

Seattle is my number one choice, Las Vegas being the obvious second, but aside from them I’d love to see Vancouver, Mexico City would never work due to the altitude being far higher than Denver however, as a more wildcard pick, one that probably won’t happen but it would be cool, is Baltimore

I hope the Sonics come back!!!!

My list of Cities for expansion: 1. Seattle 2. Kansas City 3. Louisville 4. Mexico City 5. Las Vegas 6. Pittsburgh Then I would do some conference realignments: Minnesota to the central, Memphis and New Orleans to the eastern conference, Oklahoma City goes from the northwest to the southwest

Living in Portland Oregon I am a big Trail Blazer fan. I’ve been loyal to the team since the age of 7 back in 86. One big tradition was the I5 rivalry between Portland and Seattle. I miss those moments of friendly debates about who could defeat who. I was so heartsick for Seattle when they were deceived and lost their SuperSonics. I know I’m not the only person in Portland let alone all of you NBA fans who feel that when Adam Silver expands the league likely next summer Seattle should be the first team chosen I also feel that Las Vegas is going to also receive a new NBA franchise as well. Especially due to the fact that LeBron James wants to be a minority owner. While I agree that Louisville and Kansas City should also have new teams I really believe that if the league does goes to three expansion squads the third team will be in Mexico City. The fan base is there, they embrace their G League team and they have an amazing building. The NBA is a very global game and they already have the Raptors up north in Canada who won their first Larry O’Brian trophy in 2019. Expanding to Mexico just makes a lot of sense.

Seattle deserves a team back. It's gotta be the first and the rest can be after.

Vancouver and Seattle!

Seattle #1, with Vancouver, Las Vegas, Montreal, and Mexico City being the next locations afterwards. Kansas City or St. Louis could round out the list nicely.

I've been saying SEA & LV were getting teams for 12 yrs now but I think Vancouver & Mexico City are next up if they want to go to 34 teams down the line.

As a football (or soccer as you call haha) fan from Brazil i assure you that an altitude of 2,240 meters is not a big deal for basketball. In soccer it starts to impact the game above 2,600 meters (1,615 miles). For american football or baseball its another history of course. However it cant be ignored. Our clubs here in south america play soccer matches at 3,600 high (La Paz) and it is like another sport.

Top 3 destinations: Seattle, Seattle & Seattle!

Vancouver

Bring my Sonics back!!!

The NBA has already tested Seattle and Vegas with their WNBA teams. As he said, the Storm drag in a lot of fans and I'm pretty sure the Aces won the finals this year. I feel like has some weird winning aura. As mentioned, I'm pretty sure the Aces won this year, the Golden Knights made the Stanley Cup, the Raiders made their first playoff appearances in 5 years, and I have a feeling the A's will return to relevance once they move to Sin City.

One thing is that the OKC Thunder still holds the Sonics records, including their only championship in 1979

We need 6. Atlantic - Montreal Southeast - Jacksonville Central - Cincinnati Southwest - Kansas City Northwest - Seattle Pacific - Las Vegas

BRING'EM BACK!!!

Alaska Anchorage

Some suggestions to expand and balance the conferences better? The 18 teams under Eastern Conference include: Atlantic Toronto Raptors Boston Celtics Brooklyn Nets New York Knicks Philadelphia 76ers Washington Wizards Central Chicago Bulls Cleveland Cavaliers Detroit Pistons Indiana Pacers Milwaukee Bucks Minnesota Timberwolves Southeast Miami Heat Orlando Magic Atlanta Hawks Charlotte Hornets Memphis Tigers Kansas City Chiefs The 18 teams under Western Conference include: Northwest Oklahoma City Thunder Denver Nuggets Utah Jazz Portland Trail Blazers Seattle Supersonics Vancouver Grizzlies Pacific Golden State Warriors Los Angeles Lakers Phoenix Suns Sacramento Kings San Diego Sharks Las Vegas Spades Southwest Dallas Mavericks Houston Rockets New Orleans Pelicans San Antonio Spurs Austin Aviators Mexican Capitanes

I think the main problem is finding teams from both conferences as Vegas and Seattle are both west conference teams the nba needs to find two teams or locations with the same capabilties as Vegas and Seattle so i think Baltimore and Seattle for the next expansion. They are pretty big cities and are experience good growth in recent years

*If you're going to do 32 teams, even out the schedule to 76 games with 4 divisions in 2 conferences: 28 games against teams in your division, 16 games against teams in the other division of the same conference, and 32 games against teams in the other conference. And, I would have the two expansion teams play against each other in the first 2 games, if in different divisions or conferences, or 4 games, if in the same division of their inaugural seasons.*

My Top 6 are: 1. Seattle 2. Las Vegas 3. Kentucky (anywhere) 4. Kansas City 5. San Diego 6. St Louis

I'm a Houston Rockets fan ,but San Diego deserves a team again. Rockets were sold and moved to Houston in 1971 and the Clippers in San Diego were short and came from Buffalo as the Buffalo Braves and from an idiotic owner donald sterling who didn't care about winning. San Diego is building a brand new arena and entertainment district as well soon. San Diego county has almost 5 million metro population and thats largest without an NBA team in the USA.

The league should do like the NFL and MLB with American and National conferences.

I like the idea of adding Louisville and Kansas City especially considering Kansas City was once a NBA city and everybody knows Seattle and Vegas are the obvious choices are one and two but Mexico City just ain’t gonna happen.. yeah it’s a good spot to go host a off-the-wall NBA game once or twice every so often but 30 to 32 teams once expanded are not going to travel that far on a regular basis to play in Mexico City.. when thinking about teams like New York, Toronto and Portland having to travel that distance to Mexico City for one night and then fly back to the states to play in another city the next night on a back to back.. it just doesn’t make sense

Pittsburgh can possibly be the #3 city to get a NBA team because they recently put up a tons of money on how to get a team.

Well better late than never for Seattle returning. For Vegas i do wonder if they’ll treat it as the “tourist market” like the raiders for the NFL

Hopefully no more teams get relocated but they should expand to St. Louis, Kansas City, Tampa, Jacksonville, Buffalo, Virginia, Connecticut, Newark, Las Vegas, Seattle, Vancouver, Montreal.

We need a NBA team in St Louis Missouri

Cincinnati should get a NBA team again

as long as missouri gets a NBA team im chillin

I think top 4 is 1. Seattle 2. Vegas 3. Kansas City 4. San Diego 5.

Before the Sonics left town they were trying to make a combo arena for a hockey team and the Sonics. So I guess this is just the long version of that. Just to put things in perspective, Kevin Durant played for the Sonics.

They should add four new teams. There are so many good players need more opportunities. Pushing for Seattle, go Sonics!

you forgot Montreal bro

Cincinnati should be talked about, they have major support for their college team, and including their football and baseball teams, and seeing how big the support is for their new soccer team, a basketball team would work beautifully

What's the background music?

Pro basketball - which gets hundreds of new college players every season - is the one sport that could handle a new professional league. Teams could be located in Seattle, San Diego, Anaheim, Vancouver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Nashville, Columbus (Ohio), Hartford, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Long Island, and Tampa Bay.

seattle would be number one. And maybe they could split games between san diego and mexico city home games

I think hopefully In 5 years the nba moves Memphis and New Orleans to the east and add Las Vegas probably with lebron as a part owner or majority owner and a team back in Seattle with the krakens arena their home

Louisville hands down, they also have a NWSL soccer team in Louisville that’s been supported just fine and is one of America’s biggest basketball crazed cities if not the biggest and would definitely sale out all 23000 seats of the yum center. How Louisville is overlooked for pro basketball is beyond me and kinda weird 🤷🏾‍♂️ but Oklahoma City and Memphis has a team.. good ol weird ol America…. Gotta love it.. hell, New Orleans don’t even want the pelicans there but they got em, and Louisville has been begging for a team and has a new arena bigger than most arenas that the NBA even has 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️ yea weird America 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Do not expand where tornadoes can happen lmao. In all seriousness though, Vegas & Seattle should be the obvious 2 choices. But according to bro’s video, they’re going to Mexico City. He spent 5 minutes on that location.

It appears from what everyone is saying that Vegas and Seattle are teams 31 & 32 but if the NBA expands to 36 eventually then I see Mexico City as LOCK for the 33rd or 34th team!!!! Mexico City is larger than New York City with over 21 million people in the city itself. (over 8 times larger than Vegas) Mexico City has 10's thousands of filthy rich people in areas of the city as beautiful as any city in the USA (the area of Polanco is like Beverly Hills). Mexico City already has a G-league team and is among the top in attendance and expanding to Mexico opens the market to 133 million Mexicans and a doorway to the rest of Latin America. Mexico City is only under 4 hours and 40 minutes by plane to NYC and 4 hours to LA so distance isn't a problem as for altitude the NBA has played over 30 NBA exhibition and regular season games there over the last 20 years (NBA wouldn't play that many games there IF NO INTEREST) without altitude being an issue for players including the present G-league team. I have visited Mexico City 3 times for work and altitude was never an issue for me and I am not an NBA athlete who should have ZERO issues dealing with it. Look what Toronto did for the NBA, in the 90's NBA only had 2-4 Canadians like Rick Nash, Samuel Dalembert, Jamal Magloire, and Rick Fox now the NBA has over 45 Canadian players in the NBA and G-league combined. Canadian players like Shai Gigeous Alexander, Jamal Murray, RJ Barrett, Andrew Wiggins, Dillion Brooks, Luguentz Dort, Dwight Powell, Kelly Olynyk, Brandon Clarke, Tristan Thompson, Sheldon Sharpe, Benedict Mathurin, Trey Lyles, Joshua Primo, Lindel Wigginton, and Andrew Nembhard to name just a few of the 23 Canadian NBA players in 2022/23 season. If not for expansion to Canada many of those players would have never become NBA players. I foresee the NBA expanding to 36 teams by maybe 2036 and I can see Seattle, Vegas, Mexico City, and Vancouver OR Montreal and two other US cities. Vancouver is larger than Vegas and Montreal is as big as Seattle. As for West vs East... if 4 of the 6 teams are Western teams then just one Western team needs to move east to keep the 18-18 ratio ... top candidate to move east would be Minnesota (is soooo far from all the other Western Teams) as they are very close to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Indianapolis while Memphis and New Orleans are already very close to the 3 Texas teams and even Oklahoma City.

San Diego metro San Diego County has about 5 million poeple and Tijuana mexico right next door has about 4 million people. San Diego is easily largest metro market wothout an NBA team. NBA needs more teams out west as there are plenty of teams in Central and eastern time zones.

so who of the two became east?

My Top 5 Spot for a NBA Team 1.SEATTLE 2.LAS VEGAS 3.San Diego 4.Mexico City 5.Vancouver (So, Seattle & Las Vegas are the 2 to get a Team)

Vancouver Lemmings

I just wish Kansas City had a chance at getting a team.

Without a doubt the two biggest money makers would be Vancouver and Seattle.

tampa

Seattke Sonics must be 1st, then Vegas Outlaws. The rest can wait.

Seattle

Should give virginia and baltimore teams

San Diego should get a team too

nashville

As most people want the Seattle Supersonics back the NBA will surely won't support and won't think a expansion team there because the local government doesn't want to support a pro-sports team there back then, they had already burned 4 chances the NBA gave for Seattle: Nope The Steve Ballmer deal financing half of the cost of a new arena in Seattle, Nope both the Kings or Bucks relocations before having their new owners and Nope the best deal of it all as a Local Business Group wants to finance everything from a new stadium and other expenses.

Another team in canada or Baltimore

Definitely KY ✅

FYI: The murder rate in Mexico City is 9.96/100,000 ... murder rate in St.Louis is 87,83/100,000 (9 times more chance of being murdered in St. Louis than in Mexico City). Baltimore 58.60 (6 times worse), Memphis 48.7, Detroit 47.9, Cleveland 44.0, Philadelphia 35,7 (4 to 5 better chance of being murdered in those cities than Mexico City). Milwaukee 34.3, Atlanta 32,0, Washington 31.8, Oakland 30.9, Kansas City 30.7, Chicago 29.6, Indianapolis 27.1 ... all these cities are 3 times the rate of Mexico City. Only 7 NBA cities had a lower murder rate than Mexico City ... 23 NBA cities have a higher murder rate.

Would the players get paid in pesos if they played for Mexico City ?

san jose

I never understood why the NBA never had a team in Pittsburgh. Even KC had the Kings a long time ago.

Nashville or Louisville should get a NBA team

My top 5 cities: 1. Seattle 2. Kansas City 3. Raleigh 4. Louisville 5. San Diego

baltimore

Coneticut needs an nba team It only has wnba

Expand to Seattle for sure and either Vegas or KC. Put them in the west and move Memphis Grizzlies to the east.

Las vegas is said to have a 10 Billion plan in place for a Arena and area around the Arena. Dark Horse team i will say St. Louis the Owners of the St. Louis Spirit of the ABA had a deal in place . After the ABA & NBA merger St. Louis Spirit owners took a deal to get a Million dollars a season that lasted from the merger to the 2010's . there is rumors the payments stopped for 1 of 2 things one the NBa didn't to pay anymore the other so if a group in St. Louis wanted to bring a team to St.Louis. I think it's going to be Las Vegas & Seattle.

Honestly. I think the list should go 1. Seattle. 2. Las Vegas or Vancouver. 3. Montreal 4. Kansas City. 5. MEXICO CITY. High and ricch population matters.

Nobody deserves it more than Seattle

I would add another city Tampa bay would be good

No more teams in the eastern central time zones. More teams are needed out west.

virginia beach

anaheim

Boricua Hispanic India n black iam.. if las vegas going to have a team of nba , a good name like the Mega aces black n purple 😅. Or royal aces blue. uniform n white . Super mega vegas. Royal blue n blackjack logo.😅 I have shaw Kemp with the uniform of the super sonic..

If Adam Silver wants to be commissioner of the NBA from Seattle fans and fans in general, the NBA he will make sure Seattle’s one of the two or three expansion cities otherwise Adam Silver may not be commissioner very long

pittsburgh

Batilmore

montreal

Vancouver end of story, and they get their name back, sorry Memphis (Not) 😂😂😂 #GoGrizzilies #WETHEWEST #Grizzliesfan #FromSouthCaroliaUSA

For everyone saying concinnati yall cant afford the new arena youd need for wither and nba or nhl(commisionner said cincy wants one) when the bengals are gonna want one soon! Do they wnat to lose the bengals? They cant afdord to keep them but also get an nba or nhl arena.

Vegas will be full of Laker fans.

mexico city

Bring the grizzlies back to Vancouver

Mexico City cartel will destroy the fans😢

Mexico City won’t work. Too much travel

Since there are no other teams in Louisville, say no to nba in Louisville

Football no soccer.

Couldn't.. care.. less.. it's all rigged anyways.

Qué os parece @DrafteadosNBA ???

Bring back my sonic s

You made a whole damn video about NBA expansion without mentioning Vancouver and Montreal. Good job! Louisville lol. It's 2024 and Americans still don't even realize there's a whole other country to the north where the inventor of basketball came from, and forgot that the Grizzlies used to be a Canadian team and were stolen from us