{"id":494682,"date":"2026-04-28T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494682"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:00:31","slug":"nba-expansion-las-vegas-and-seattle-draw-investor-interest-valuation-could-reach-10b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-expansion-las-vegas-and-seattle-draw-investor-interest-valuation-could-reach-10b\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA expansion: Las Vegas and Seattle draw investor interest, valuation could reach $10B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1516\">The <strong data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1329\">NBA<\/strong> continues to move toward a possible expansion. According to Bloomberg, the league has received signs of interest from several investor groups for new franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1706\">Early indications suggest Las Vegas is drawing stronger interest than Seattle, with expansion fees potentially reaching up to $10 billion. No formal bids have been submitted at this stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"1947\">PJT Partners, the NBA\u2019s adviser, is canvassing potential ownership groups ahead of a formal bidding phase expected later this year. The Board of Governors is also expected to vote later this year on whether to approve one or two new teams.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"2086\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Source: <em data-start=\"1957\" data-end=\"1973\">Bloomberg News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bloomberg, the NBA has received signs of interest from multiple investor groups for potential new teams in Las Vegas and Seattle<\/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-494682","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","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494682","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=494682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494682\/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=494682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494682"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494682"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494682"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}