NBA expansion has been a constant topic of conversation for years, but there’s been very little progress on making it become a reality. League commissioner Adam Silver said in July that the league was instructed by team owners to conduct an in-depth analysis of its options, hinting that we could see at least one more team added to league in the near future.
However, Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban doesn’t think expansion will happen for the NBA, at least not any time soon. During an appearance on the DLLS Mavs podcast, Cuban laid out two reasons why he doesn’t think the league expanding is feasible.
“The expansion fee is just a loan,” Cuban said. “You loan me let’s say its $6 billion and I pay back that loan. I give you 1/31 — because there’s 30 teams now, there will be 31. I get 1/31 of the TV money, and then it’s only a question of how long it takes. So if the TV money, let’s just make it an easy number, is $100 million, and it’s $6 billion so that means in 60 years the loan will be paid off with no interest. So why split up the pie any further?”
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Cuban went on to explain the other reason.
“Part two of that is, when you calculate the CBA, and when you calculate the cap, now you’re divided by 32 teams. … So now if the cap is $170 million, but the basketball-related income hasn’t really increased by the team that you added, so now if it’s one or two teams, you’re reducing the cap. So literally, in a second apron era, the cap goes down and the second apron goes down and the teams are f—–. It just doesn’t work,” he explained.
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