The year 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of the Charlotte Bobcats' entry into the NBA—and therefore the 20th anniversary of the league's most recent expansion.
As the NBA has grown in the last decade—both during the 2010s' popularity boom and the 2020s' lucrative pandemic recovery—speculation has swirled about which cities might be next. The answer, however, may be no cities in the immediate future.
