THESE 20 Cities Are Suitable For NBA Expansion 

Memphis is a dying city anyway they should just go back! No need for a “brand new” team

Not gonna happen. I don't see Vancouver supporting another NBA team anytime soon. NBA has alot of travel issues as it is without adding another trip to the NW after they re add Seattle. Logistically it's easier to just NOT Go to the NW at all. London is closer to Miami than Seattle or Vancouver. Night as well go to London right?

@@texasscifi3431 but if you had both Seattle and Vancouver, then you have an easy away week for East Coast teams, hitting Portland, Seattle and Vancouver before heading home. They do it in the NHL which has teams in Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. Lots of east coast teams when they play them will play 2, 3 or all four of those teams in a row for a little away strech.

Ohh ya.. I'm way up here in Saskatchewan.. We could never dream of a team. But I always support the Raptors down south and it really hurt Canada to lose the Grizzlies too..

@@loC2ol memphis has one of the best fan bases, they not leaving

I'm a Bucks fan and feel the same way . If you have not watched Sonics Gate you should . Talk about fans getting done dirty . At one point before the Bucks built the Fiserv Forum they were rumored as being possibly relocated with Seattle being mentioned as a possible destination.

Vegas baby ! It's the center of the global sports universe

Sonics has to be back... It was a crime against Sport the way the NBA let a selfish Owner move the team to Oklahoma. Cz they could've create a new franchise in Oklahoma and get a new Owner in Seattle..

I grew up watching Shawn Kemp and the rest of the Sonics play. That team is part of my childhood and I would love to see them back. I honestly didn't even know they were gone because I stopped watching pros and have always been much more into college.

Thanks bruv we seattle fans sure do miss em. Even so I was a kid when they were around I’d love to support them today!

Yeah, if Warriors and Kings can exist next to each other. So are Vancouver and Seattle teams.

What you’ve said I cannot agree with you more. Also adding two teams in the Pacific Northwest geographically aligns the league a lot better and helps a city like Portland a lot with travel. The NBA should’ve never left those cities.

@@jaydurant3048 their owners did

Not to mention an automatic rivalry between the Sonics and the Thunder. Honestly though, I would KILL to see the SEA-POR rivalry hit the NBA stage again. It was underrated then, and it would be SO much fun now!

Isn’t Lebron already in talks with the NBA about a Vegas expansion? Not sure if that’s confirmed though since so far we’ve only really heard him say he wants to be the owner

I think memphis should move to the east

After looking at a team map, the Pelicans are the Eastern most team in the West Division. Therefore, them moving to the Eastern Confrence would make the most sense

@@turntprophet7960 only if there’s a 3rd and 4th expansion team

New Orleans needs to move to the east or Memphis

Seattle and La Vegas need* a team ...

Bruh it's too perfect. As long as the colors are white, red, and yellow, it would fit.

@@kimyona9746 maroon white and gold if I got to pick the colors.

@@rxanime535 as long as the colors reflect a chicken somewhat it's fine.

The alternates could be Black and Maroon to represent the Black chickens. And the city jersey can just be like whatever they think up.

@@kimyona9746 I can compromise to that.

London England UK

Nashville is an amazing city. A Nashville NBA team would sell out like crazy.

I’m from Nashville and you are not lying! It’s like Nashville and Memphis are in two different states but Memphis already has the Memphis Grizzlies in which we in Nashville didn’t want at the time. We are the favorite and most likely get an MLB team in the near future. Not sure we want NBA on Nashville yet.

You do a video about NFL Expansion

@@jamespond1977 Plan to do WNBA, MLS, NHL, + NFL in the coming months. May also do expansion/reloction history and info on unknown/obsure leagues with some vidoes revolving around their future expansion (XFL, Cricket, Lacrosse, Pickelball, Rugby, etc.)

pump the brakes on this nonsense the NBA already has too many teams and only 1 championship to fight for, increasing teams will just lead to fan disillusion, we are at a saturation point for too many teams in MLB NFL and NBA, it's a joke

A larger problem is the language barrier.

What about Kansas City?

I agree about Montreal. Montrealers are passionate about sports and they have a lot of companies to order suites.

@@krbourne Doesnt makes sense that Vancouver got his chance but not Montreal.

Montreal is first and foremost a hockey city and that NBA franchise would eventually relocate, with Louisville, Richmond, Nashville or Birmingham likely destinations......

@@handsomeclem208 you definetely don’t know montreal and the canadiens will never relocate it’s part of quebec culture.

@@handsomeclem208 You probably haven't been to any kind of game in Montreal. I went to a football game in Montreal and they have a passionate fanbase. It's not just hockey.

Running with that thought: West - Fresno, Anaheim, San Diego, Oakland, Albuquerque, Boise, El Paso, Austin, Fort Worth, Tulsa, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Des Moines, East - Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Greenville, Charleston, Virginia Beach, Raleigh, Louisville, Cincinnati, Nashville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Providence, Buffalo I even left out Las Vegas and Seattle as the NBA will likely expand there.

@@vamoscruceros What I really want to see is a new wrestling league in those cities

California bouta have 5 nba teams 💀🤣

@@victor_wet_bananas Time for the Clippers to go back to San Diego.

@@zacharyyamashita8554 💀

@@zacharyyamashita8554 not gonna happen. San Diego needs their own new scratch of a nba team

They can be that 35th city to get an NBA team

Norfolk squiers

And have entire teams go missing

No dummy

@@nyc21282 Mexico needs to take out the cartels so fans and players can visit

@@jumpy2xstreaming exactly...lol

@@jumpy2xstreaming Why would Cartels go after NBA teams? 🤦🏿‍♂️😅

Except for the NFC East.

You're absolutely right and truth be told, Atlanta pro teams suffer because they compete heavily against major college teams especially football and basketball. What's more exciting... watching Georgia Tech and Clemson or Atlanta Falcons play Jacksonville Jaguars? 🤣🤣🤣

of cincy/cbus/louisville, louisville is probably the best bet. yes they’re the smallest, yes u of L basketball is a big deal but i think they’d draw from the whole state. cincy has more competition, columbus doesn’t have much of a draw outside of columbus

The Columbus MSA is still on pace to become the largest Metro Area in Ohio by 2028. It passed Cleveland a few years ago and is on pace to pass Cincy within about five years. Franklin County passed Cuyahoga County as the most populous county in Ohio around five years ago as well.

Me too.... I live there

Maybe bring back the Kings. (Yes, I'm old enough to remember when the Sacramento Kings were the Kansas City/Omaha Kings) 🤣🤣🤣

@@TheOlskool4ever think the kings are staying in sacrarmento since they moved to the Golden 1 center. but they could get a franchise again.

I agree with you except I think the next 3 teams will definitely be Vegas, Seattle and San Diego...if there is an international team it would be Mexico City. Vancouver had the Grizzlies and you see how that worked. Another city to consider would be Baltimore. There really isn't many places left on the east coast to expand

Competing against a Hockey team was a concern for Seattle Sonics owner Ackerly, that he limited the remodel of Key Arena. Too bad remodel was a small Arena, that's what David Stern hated about Seattle's situation. He was dissed by Washington legislators on getting State funding for larger Arena. Howard Schultz sold the team to an out of towner, so no one local could show him as a bad owner. Also the city required any basketball team to play at it's Seattle Center location (Colosseum, Key Arena now Climate Pledge) so this property wouldn't be vacant. FYI remodel ran $900 Million in 2020

@@hillyseattlenarrowstreets6087 So the city MANDATED the Sonics to play at Key Arena? The owner has no say in the matter? As for not wanting to compete against an NHL team, the 76ers have also decided they want out of the Wells Fargo Center here in Philly that they share with the Flyers and are planning a move to downtown to a HORRIBLE location. Sports is big business as you know and owners want their own venue for their teams to play solely for themselves. In that regard, the Sonics owner was probably right to be concerned.

@@TheOlskool4ever Yes, Climate Pledge Arena is Owned by the City of Seattle (it's where the Space Needle is located) and they made the Hockey Team Owners renovate Key Arena for $1.1 Billion so they could play in Seattle. Earlier people were trying to get a Basketball team here (Sacramento Kings at the time), they wanted to build THEIR Larger Stadium near Century Link & T Mobile stadiums and the City refused them because it would make the Key Arena redundant. FYI city made old arena roof historical so Climate Pledge was built underneath it = high cost. Side note - Better parking, freeway access & rail transit at location by football & baseball stadiums. Even better, Spring 2022, the County wanted to place a 5 Acre Megaplex Homeless Shelter 3 blocks East of Stadiums, 2 blocks South of Chinatown for Dec 2022. 450 beds, 50 tiny homes & 50 RV parking spots, 24/7 Mental Health Clinic & City Sobering Center. This Shelter was canceled due to nearby Chinatown residents protesting it's sudden siting and poor notice to the community. With Freeway to the East, Stadiums East, Industrial Businesses to the South, easiest neighborhood for Homeless people to hangout when they were asked to leave for the day was Chinatown - 2 blocks North - with Parks, businesses, restaurants and elderly Asian residents to mess with. In 2017, the City placed a 75 bed shelter near the Little Saigon neighborhood that destroyed Businesses there. Homeless shelters and Encampments attract too much Crime and Drug Use that political people in charge will deny. Yup, Seattle leadership is a Joke and people are too liberal to know better.

@@TheOlskool4ever No, 36 is divisible by 6, and 4 is too small, and nobody wants a Philly to DC to Ohio middle division. 1. Montreal to the Northeast 2. Seattle WA to the Northwest 3. Mexico City to the Southwest 4. Las Vegas to the Pacific Ocean 5. South Carolina to the Southeast 6. Saint Louis Missouri to the Midwest Expansion brings back the Jordan Era divisional seeding for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Conferences don't need 3 games.

Virginia Squires

Folks been talking about pro sports in 757 since 2000😂

Yeah but Virginia Beach keeps residents don’t want it and it’s been in a null space since the 2000s that’s why they want a team but people keep saying no

if seattle gets a team, kiss the chances of vancouver getting one goodbye...and its almost guaranteed seattle is getting one

@@michellebrown7714 no not necessarily. If anything it looks better for the league, they did not work with two cities and it is in their best interest to fix their previous problems. It would also geographically align the league a lot better and help a city like Portland immensely with travel.

The Kings aren't going anywhere. They have a 35 year lease, and they're in year 6 or 7. They'll be sticking around Sacramento for a while.

No

Montreal and Vancouver are hockey cities first and foremost, and an NBA franchise would eventually relocate to markets that have had more of a basketball history in their particular regions such as Louisville and Nashville; Vegas would be more viable as like SoCal, they both have sizeable transplant populations who would show up to cheer on their favorite teams instead......

@@nyc21282 Why?

@@handsomeclem208 Dude Montreal has like 4 million people, which is the same size as Detroit and Seattle. They only have two proffesional sports teams with an NHL and a MLS team. They could easily be home to a NBA team.

@@handsomeclem208 Both cities could easily support a franchise.

vancouver wont get one if seattle does, tampas got an outside shot as maybe the 4th option. diego chicago lousiville mexico and virginia have zero shot and Nashille's too close to the grizzlies, Pitts the #3 option for the NBA as it has a proven record of supporting teams, even bad ones. Vegas is #2 and unsurprisingly, seattle is #1

Chicago already has the Bulls so that eliminates them......

@@handsomeclem208 No it doesn't, it would be 2nd team needed to rival the Bulls and force them to evolve, Chicago is big enough to support both easily

@@michellebrown7714 completely false, completely different fanbases. You don’t have to worry about the fanbases intersecting one another. Completely different markets. Vancouver and Seattle are locks realistically because of how they geographically align with the league it evens it out and helps the Western Conference align more as well as Portland with its travel decreasing immensely from it.

@@jaydurant3048 lol name two other cities less than 150 miles from one another that have NBA teams that are not New York or LA. that have a population of less than 1.4 million combined

New Mexico definitely

Call them the Raisins.

I live in South Carolina and I see the most likely option being Charleston due to it being a tourist destination

The NBA already been in Kansas City & St. Louis don't see them going back.

@@joemagwood6096 St. Louis is worse off than Detroit and has no future, Kansas City has a way bigger chance than St. Louis to get a team

@@batmangummies5393 But Detroit been around for decades when the Kings was in KC they moved got no support as well as the Hawks when they was in St.Louis plus the Rams moving doesn't look good either but we see.

@@joemagwood6096 yeah I was agreeing with you that they probably won’t get a team. Detroit has a team because Detroit has a metropolitan area of 5 million and used to have 1.8 million people in the city, so it makes sense. But St. Louis def won’t get a team and I doubt Kansas City will either, St. Louis is a baseball city and Kansas City is a football city, that’s just the way it is.

I agree with also with Nashville

There is little to no market for pro ball in Pittsburgh. We are a college ball town, and I don’t know a single person that has even a passing interest in the NBA.

Seattle and Vancouver realistically. Those cities were done wrong by the NBA. they’ll make amends in those cities first.

No it’s not. Smh. 1.8 million people 150,000 are military. Smh.

No lies it time

Exactly bro Nets is not jersey no more sooo we need a new team

While that would sound right at first, that would leave the league with 33 teams, any suggestions for another Western Expansion?

@@SetheMan either Kansas City, San Diego for West or Montreal or Louisville for East Conference….to make it 34 teams…then the NBA would be complete, no more expansion….final choices: Seattle, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and Kansas City or San Diego

@@SetheMani take it back, Expand to Vancouver, Seattle, Las Vegas in the west and expand to Pittsburgh for the east…move Minnesota, New Orleans and Memphis to the eastern conference with Pittsburgh. Each conference is even and everyone is happy. 🎉 lol

hence why I think pitt will eventually end up with the hornets, it just makes too much sense.

they had a aba franchise the condors. they can be a potential. they got ppg paints arena and would have a in-state rivarly with the 76ers

@@retroguy1976 Heck, Pittsburgh had a team early in the NBA history and had an expansion team in the 1960s for one day, until the intended owner threw a tantrum that he couldn't get Bill Sharman from the Celtics to coach the team [they had a tentative agreement, he found out about the contract, and pulled the team in anger.]

I'm a very rare person in this "Kentuckiana" area who actually doesn't care too much for college sports, so a big 4 sports team, NBA being the most likely, would be very welcoming to me. And that's not to say it's strictly a college sports area, like some people are led to believe. As I said, their ABA team outdrew most NBA teams in attendance and UL and UK were already a successful thing then, obviously.

As much as I won’t Omaha to get a team it does not make sense. Creighton sells out but ticket prices are low. NBA tickets are a lot more and need more people buying suites. If I was the NBA I would chose Kansas City first and I can’t see both cities getting a team