
Viva Las Vegas, or at least that’s what Adam Silver could have said when the NBA commissioner announced the league was moving forward with plans to bring franchises to Las Vegas and back to Seattle, which lost the then-SuperSonics to Oklahoma City nearly two decades ago. After years of flirting with expansion the NBA finally seems ready to fully embrace it. As, I’m guessing, are the two teams who will be shifted to the Eastern Conference.
Expansion was not the only issue on the agenda at Wednesday’s Board of Governors meeting. A look at some of the key issues Silver addressed, along with my spin on what it all means.