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The National Basketball Association has undergone several rounds of expansion in the league's history, since it began play in 1946, to reach 30 teams. The most recent examples are the additions of the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat in 1988; the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic in 1989; the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995 (who relocated to Memphis in 2001); and the ...
The city already hosts the league's annual Summer League extravaganza, has been an All-Star host, now has the NBA Cup final four and one of the WNBA's top franchises in the Las Vegas Aces.
The pandemic helped to squash the opportunity and expansion became an afterthought. NBA commissioner Adam Silver, as recently as last week, has said the league won’t have serious expansion talks ...
In 2001, an affiliated minor league, the National Basketball Development League, now called the NBA G League, was created. [124] Two years after the Hornets' move to New Orleans, the NBA returned to North Carolina, as the Charlotte Bobcats were formed as an expansion team in 2004. [125]
NBA commissioner Adam Silver says Las Vegas is on the league's short list of expansion cities. (AP photo/Jeff Chiu, archive) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Las Vegas is the unquestioned belle of the ball ...
The first Canadian expansion team would come in 1970 with a team in Vancouver; the NHL later added teams in Edmonton, Winnipeg and Quebec City (through absorption of WHA franchises), Calgary (via relocation from Atlanta) and Ottawa (via expansion) to go with the still-extant Toronto and Montreal teams.
A four-year effort to bring an NBA franchise into Louisville from group NBA2Lou is cooling down. At least temporarily. Why Louisville group's latest efforts for NBA expansion have cooled
In 2013, the Hornets announced that they would change their name to the New Orleans Pelicans [4] after the 2012–13 season. Since 2014, the NBA officially considers the New Orleans franchise as an expansion team that began play in the 2002–03 NBA season. [1]