Bill Simmons Throws Cold Water On Las Vegas, And NBA, Expansion
Simmons says expansion is a longshot and assumptions of Vegas getting a team are overblown
Imagn Images via Vecteezy. com On his eponymous podcast Sunday night, Bill Simmons took a bucket of cold water and poured it on the idea of the NBA expansion plans. Then he refilled the bucket and held the NBA expansion plans — including the idea of placing a team in Las Vegas — under the water until it was but a memory.
In short: Simmons, who has octopus-like connections throughout the NBA, thinks it ain’t happening. He broke it down into two parts, with the first — and most pressing — issue being his certainty expansion will not pass muster with the owners. There are 30 NBA franchises, and 23 have to approve any expansion.
Simmons is sure NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is going to have problems with nearly half of the owners. “They don’t have the votes,” Simmons said, in conversation with fellow podcaster/NBA insider Zach Lowe. “I think it got a little testy in the Board of Governors when they were all together last week, with some people like, ‘Why are we doing this?
I’m never voting for this. This is stupid. We’re not doing this.