Nba Expansion In Canada

The success of the toronto raptors has raised the profile of basketball in canada which should provide a boost for vancouver.

Nba expansion in canada. For his first state of the league address just prior to the start of the first nba finals game ever played in canada adam silver dedicated the opening minutes of his address to offer a mini. Basketball still looks more or less the same but the nba will have expanded from 30 north american clubs to 32 re adding the seattle supersonics and finally cashing in on their flirtation with mexico city. Mississauga ontario 2011 0 originally announced as an expansion team but was quietly removed from the league s website.

Even back in june at the nba finals before the coronavirus shutdown silver said i m sure inevitably at some point we ll turn back to expansion but it s not on the agenda at the time. Nba commissioner adam silver revealed monday that the league has examined previous analysis into expansion but adding new teams is still not on the front burner the charlotte bobcats now. And more importantly will have expand to 48 total teams across 13 countries.

In 1995 the nba created two new teams in canada its first since the inaugural 1946 47 season with one in toronto. Namely the toronto raptors and vancouver grizzlies now memphis grizzlies. Announced as a member of aba canada but the aba canada was reduced to a single selects team.

The basketball blog 16 wins a ring broke the story this week that the nba is interested in expanding by two new teams as early as 2018 19 although 2019 20 is more likely. The league expanded to 30 with the present charlotte hornets in 2004 initially as the charlotte bobcats.