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More teams means more games means more money.
More anything? More everything! The popular sports leagues realize that greater inventory leads to greater revenue.
And the NBA is moving toward adding more games by adding more teams. Shams Charania of ESPN reports that the NBA will explore adding expansion teams in Las Vegas and Seattle at meetings scheduled for later this month. They'd join the league in 2028, and expansion fees could land in the range of $7 billion to $10 billion.
Expansion to Las Vegas and Seattle would increase the number of NBA teams from 30 to 32. The NFL is surely paying close attention. For now, the effort to increase the total number of games focuses on expanding the regular season from 17 games to 18 (which would increase the length of the regular season from 272 games to 288).
And while that could be followed by a push for 19 (and then 20), another way to grow the total number of games is to add teams. With two more teams and an 18-game season, that's 18 more games (306 total). With four more teams, it's another 18 games (324 total).