https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30576045/adam-silver-acknowledges-possibility-nba-expansion

with the NBA opening up lines of credit during the pandemic to give its teams economic relief, it is notable that Silver acknowledged the possibility of expanding beyond the current 30 teams -- particularly as each expansion team would come with a hefty entry fee that would all but certainly exceed $1 billion, which would then be passed on to the current teams.

bad move unless you are going to Division play..

Terrible reason. NBA is already too big. Too many teams.

Too many teams without a chance to win. Fans less engaged. Weaker product.

Might lead to an era like the 70s where expansion thinned out the whole league though

I think that is a bad reason to do it, but I do think they should have 32 teams.  Give Seattle a team and maybe St. Louis.  Then you go to 8, 4 team divisions.

East
1 - BOS, NY, PHI, BKN
2 - DET, CLE, TOR, WAS
3 - CHI, MIL, MIN, IND
4 - MIA, ATL, ORL, CHA

West
1 - NO, STL, HOU, MEM
2 - OKC, SAN, DAL, PHO
3 - SEA, POR, SAC, GS
4 - DEN, LAC, LAL, UTA

Play all division teams 4 times each - 12 games
Play same conference 3 times each - 36 games
Play other conference 2 times each - 32 games

80 game schedule (or play an extra division game for 83 game schedule)

I think that is a bad reason to do it, but I do think they should have 32 teams.  Give Seattle a team and maybe St. Louis.  Then you go to 8, 4 team divisions.

East
1 - BOS, NY, PHI, BKN
2 - DET, CLE, TOR, WAS
3 - CHI, MIL, MIN, IND
4 - MIA, ATL, ORL, CHA

West
1 - NO, STL, HOU, MEM
2 - OKC, SAN, DAL, PHO
3 - SEA, POR, SAC, GS
4 - DEN, LAC, LAL, UTA

Play all division teams 4 times each - 12 games
Play same conference 3 times each - 36 games
Play other conference 2 times each - 32 games

80 game schedule (or play an extra division game for 83 game schedule)

Don’t say St. Louis- Tatum might wanna go there.

Give Vancouver and Seattle their teams back, and move the Pelicans and the Grizzlies to the Eastern Conference.

There's more than enough talent in the world to have 32 teams, but you need to fix problems with contract lengths, max deals etc.

Mark Cuban was on with Bill Simmons recently and said he thinks the time is not right at the moment, but that he does think it should happen. He said $1 billion expansion fees are where it would need to start to even get the league's attention. I'm guessing more likely it takes $2 billion each in the end.

There's more than enough talent in the world to have 32 teams, but you need to fix problems with contract lengths, max deals etc.

Mark Cuban was on with Bill Simmons recently and said he thinks the time is not right at the moment, but that he does think it should happen. He said $1 billion expansion fees are where it would need to start to even get the league's attention. I'm guessing more likely it takes $2 billion each in the end.

I agree expansion needs to come with some reforms. The balance between on court product and off the court drama (reality TV) feels like it is spinning out of control. In my opinion to much emphasis is placed on player movement. Case in point, one day before the season opens Leonard is answering questions regarding him excepting or declining his player option.