NBA expansion has been treated as an inevitability for years, but a recent meeting of the league's Board of Governors poured some cold water on the idea, much to the chagrin of fans in open markets like Seattle and Las Vegas.
"We would be malpracticing if we didn’t figure out how local regional television is going to work before expanding," commissioner Adam Silver said last week. "The notion that we would hand over a team into a city where we're not currently operating and say, 'You're going to have to figure out how you're going to distribute your games to your local fans,' doesn't make sense."
