The league isn’t fairly able to discover growth talks, commissioner Adam Silver revealed throughout a Tuesday press convention. Silver addressed the media after the league’s Board of Governors assembly.
“There was not quite a lot of dialogue on this assembly about growth, however solely largely not for lack of curiosity, it was that we had mentioned to them that we’re not fairly prepared,” Silver mentioned, per ESPN’s Tim Bontemps. “It was one thing that we informed our board we plan to handle this season, and we’re not fairly prepared but. However I feel there’s definitely curiosity within the course of, and I feel that we’re not there but when it comes to having made any particular choices about markets and even frankly to increase.”
Growth has been postpone whereas the league negotiated a brand new Collective Bargaining Settlement and reached new broadcast offers. With these objects within the rear view mirror, the league might eventully focus on growth within the coming months.
Step one in that course of, in keeping with Bontemps, can be forming a committee of a number of homeowners to discover the subject and decide what the subsequent steps can be.
Right here’s extra from Silver’s press convention and the BOG assembly:
- He would like that legalized sports activities betting had a “federal framework,” fairly than being a state competitors with various guidelines.
“I used to be in favor of a federal framework for sports activities betting. I nonetheless am,” he mentioned. “I nonetheless suppose that the hodgepodge of state by state, it makes it tougher for the league to manage it. I feel it creates competitors, understandably, amongst states to get — simply suppose New York, New Jersey or a state of affairs like that the place you’re each competing for a similar buyer, so you may compete on tax charges and different issues and a regulatory framework.”
