{"id":488736,"date":"2026-03-19T08:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488736"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:26:50","slug":"lebron-james-no-im-not-he-wont-pursue-a-las-vegas-nba-expansion-ownership-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-no-im-not-he-wont-pursue-a-las-vegas-nba-expansion-ownership-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James: \u201cNo, I\u2019m not.\u201d He won\u2019t pursue a Las Vegas NBA expansion ownership bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"3861\" data-end=\"4142\"><strong data-start=\"3861\" data-end=\"3877\">LeBron James<\/strong> said he no longer intends to pursue being part of an ownership group for a potential NBA expansion franchise in <strong data-start=\"3990\" data-end=\"4003\">Las Vegas<\/strong>. After scoring 30 in the <strong data-start=\"4029\" data-end=\"4052\">Los Angeles Lakers\u2019<\/strong> 124-116 win over the <strong data-start=\"4074\" data-end=\"4093\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>, James was clear: \u201c<strong data-start=\"4113\" data-end=\"4140\">No, I\u2019m not. Not at all<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4144\" data-end=\"4453\">It\u2019s a shift from prior public comments, including a 2022 statement in which he said he wanted a team in Vegas. With a vote scheduled at next week\u2019s Board of Governors meeting to move forward with the bidding process for franchises in <strong data-start=\"4379\" data-end=\"4392\">Las Vegas<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"4397\" data-end=\"4408\">Seattle<\/strong>, James said he does not plan to be involved.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4455\" data-end=\"4695\">Per <strong data-start=\"4459\" data-end=\"4479\">Shams Charania\u2019s<\/strong> reporting, industry executives expect proposals in the <strong data-start=\"4535\" data-end=\"4550\">$7B to $10B<\/strong> range for each expansion franchise. LeBron\u2019s stance removes one of the most high-profile names previously linked to a Vegas ownership narrative.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4697\" data-end=\"4767\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Lakers\u2019 win in Houston, LeBron says he has no plans to join an ownership group tied to a potential Vegas franchise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488736"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488736"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488736"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}