{"id":214896,"date":"2022-05-24T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=214896"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:23:13","slug":"nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas NBA Rumor Intensifies Following Columnist Radio Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-running speculation about the NBA making its way to Las Vegas got more fuel earlier today. That&#8217;s after a well-known sports columnist told a Seattle radio station the league is preparing current owners for expansion into those two cities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214897\" data-style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-214897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/silver-142x80.jpg\" alt=\"NBA Las Vegas\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-214897\"class=\"text-description\">NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. More Las Vegas rumors are popping up, but he&#8217;s stand-offish about a new team in the city. (Image: NBA.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Canzano, an Oregon-based sports columnist that covers the NBA&#8217;s Portland Trail Blazers, among other teams across a variety of sports, told 93.3 KJR FM &#8212; a Seattle sports radio station &#8212; the NBA is focusing potential expansion efforts on Las Vegas and Seattle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\"><p><strong>The rest of the owners in the league are being told that Vegas and Seattle are the expansion targets,\u201d<\/strong> said Canzano in the interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A specific time line for growing the league to 32 from 30 teams wasn\u2019t mentioned.<\/p>\n<h2>Las Vegas Looking for NBA Confirmation<\/h2>\n<p>In sports rumor terms, the speculated marriage of the NBA and Las Vegas is ancient &#8212; dating back more than a decade. The Maloof brothers owned the Sacramento Kings from 1998 through 2013.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>During that period, there was frequent chatter about the family moving the franchise to Sin City, because until 2016, the Maloof family owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/william-hill-applying-to-keep-running-palms-sportsbook\/\">the Palms Casino Resort<\/a>. More recently, the Phoenix Suns threatened a move to Las Vegas or Seattle if their home city didn\u2019t provide financing for arena enhancements. But that crisis was averted when the team reached a 23-year deal with the city in January 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver previously expressed a preference for expansion over existing teams moving to new cities. But he\u2019s taking a cautious approach to adding franchises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In an April radio interview, Silver said both Las Vegas and Seattle are \u201cgreat\u201d markets, but added expansion isn\u2019t on the \u201cfront burner right now\u201d for the association. He said economics &#8212; two new teams would likely dilute current owners &#8212; and quality of on-the-floor product are the primary issues that need to be addressed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Both Cities Want the NBA<\/h2>\n<p>Sin City has long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-expected-to-pitch-nba-regarding-expansion-franchise\/\">been a hotbed of NBA rumors<\/a>, particularly after adding the NHL\u2019s Golden Knights and the NFL\u2019s Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>As for Seattle, the city was home to the Supersonics from 1967 through 2008 before the franchise was sold and moved to Oklahoma City, becoming the Thunder in the process. Fans in Washington State\u2019s largest city have long felt the Sonics were stolen from them, and have been clamoring for the NBA to return for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both cities have plenty going for them in terms of luring the NBA, including enthusiastic fan bases and, perhaps more importantly, infrastructure.<\/strong> In the case of Seattle, the city has a new arena for an NHL franchise that commences play in the 2022-23 season. That venue could potentially house an NBA team as well.<\/p>\n<p>In Las Vegas, a professional basketball team could use T-Mobile Arena. Additionally, real estate developer Oak View Group said in March it\u2019s buying land south of the Las Vegas Strip and is planning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/3b-las-vegas-arena-with-high-end-hotel-casino-planned-south-of-strip\/\">$3 billion project<\/a>, including a 20,000-seat arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-running speculation about the NBA making its way to Las Vegas got more fuel earlier today. That&#8217;s after a well-known sports columnist told a Seattle radio station the league is preparing current owners for expansion into those two cities. John Canzano, an Oregon-based sports columnist that covers the NBA&#8217;s Portland Trail Blazers, among other teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":214897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NBA Las Vegas Rumors Grow Following Sports Radio Interview<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NBA Las Vegas, Seattle speculation gains steam following columnist&#039;s sports radio interview.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NBA Las Vegas Rumors Grow Following Sports Radio Interview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NBA Las Vegas, Seattle speculation gains steam following columnist&#039;s sports radio interview.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-24T22:15:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-25T00:23:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/silver.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1919\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Todd Shriber\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@etfgodfather\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Todd Shriber\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/\",\"name\":\"NBA Las Vegas Rumors Grow Following Sports Radio Interview\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/silver.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-24T22:15:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-25T00:23:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f4cecf70a5032bc4e60eb73fc86d4a85\"},\"description\":\"NBA Las Vegas, Seattle speculation gains steam following columnist's sports radio interview.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nba-las-vegas-rumors-grow-following-sports-radio-interview\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/silver.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/silver.jpg\",\"width\":1919,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. 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