Mexico has hosted more games than any country outside of the United States and Canada. 17 when the Miami Heat play the San Antonio Spurs in a regular-season game that sold out in three days. The NBA will hold its 31st contest in Mexico City on Dec. * Mexico has proven that it has a strong interest in the NBA. Tatum called the venue an “NBA-quality arena” and noted that it has a helipad on the roof and the needed suites and hospitality areas. * Mexico City has an NBA-ready venue in Arena CDMX, which has 22,300 seats. The NBA’s current most populous market is New York City, which is ranked 41st in the world with 8.9 million people. * Mexico City is the sixth largest city in the world in 2022, with 22 million people, according to CEO World. So, what makes Mexico City an attractive potential NBA expansion site? The cheerleaders and mascot for the Mexico City Capitanes pose before the game between the Capitanes and the Rio Grande Valley Vipers on Nov.
But again, I’d say it’s not immediately on the docket right now.” So, those are all the kinds of things that we would take into consideration, and for those reasons you’d have to consider it. Arizona actually is a pretty short flight. It’s a pretty short flight for several of our teams, particularly our Texas teams, our Florida teams, our New Orleans team. And that’s actually the home of the G League team, the Capitanes. But there is a world-class facility in Mexico City in Arena CDMX, which is where we’ve been playing our games and our global games in Mexico. “One of the biggest challenges around international expansion has always been the travel issues, the facility issues. “Expansion is currently not on the docket, but at some point, if we were to turn to expansion, there’s no doubt that Mexico City would have to be one the cities that would be in consideration along with a host of other very big and relevant cities in North America,” NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum told Andscape.
The Capitanes made their G League debut in Mexico with a 120-84 victory over the Rio Grande Vipers in front of 7,391 fans at Arena CDMX Sunday night. The NBA, however, acknowledged to Andscape that Mexico City could be a potential NBA expansion site if all goes well with the Capitanes de Ciudad de Mexico. Silver has acknowledged Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James’ interest in wanting to be a part of an ownership group for a potential expansion team in Las Vegas. If and when the NBA does expand, it is expected that Seattle will land a team that can finally replace the SuperSonics, which were relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said recently that there are no immediate expansion plans for the 30-team league, but that hasn’t stopped speculation. “I am here because I want to bring the NBA to Mexico,” Najera told Andscape on Sunday night. MEXICO CITY – The Mexico national anthem was playing as former NBA forward Eduardo Najera took his seat courtside with an NBA dream in mind before the first G League regular-season game played in his beloved country.
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