Transcrição (en)

Here's what we know about NBA expansions so far. There will be a vote before the end of 2026, an official vote of basically approving these two expansion franchises in Seattle and Las Vegas. And the league-wide expectation is that it will pass with flying colors and we will go from 30 teams to 32 teams. They will add the Seattle Supersonics. The Oklahoma City Thunder will give pretty much their entire history before moving to Oklahoma City back to the Supersonics. They've said that they would do that before. that still seems to be what would transpire in Seattle. So that would be a franchise. And then you have the Las Vegas, whoever, whatever they decide their name would be. Obviously not the Aces, that's the WNBA team, maybe the Jokers, the Cards, the Poker Table, I don't know. Whatever you decide to call them, that would be the Las Vegas team. And where they play, that was part of the big discussion amongst talking about potential bids and potential ownership groups at the Board of Governors meeting. There was one time where Patrick Dumont, this is coming from Adam Silver, he said that Patrick Dumas, who is the owner of the Mavericks and a Las Vegas resident, he kind of led those talks about Las Vegas expansion, what it would look like, what the demographic would look like, where they could potentially play. Would they build a new arena? Would they renovate T-Mobile arena as you alluded to, Tomer? So still a lot of stuff to unfold and talk about at these board of governors meetings, but they still have a few months before the end of 2026. They're going to be having a vote sometime between now and December in terms of voting on these franchises and approving them. There's going to be active bids coming in over the course of the next few weeks, potential ownership groups and the NBA potentially moving forward with some of them and approving them. So we don't really know what else is going to transpire