On March 2, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA regular season was in full swing. In recent seasons, the U.S. media has been discussing the expansion of the NBA, and NBA President Xiao Hua has talked about it in public more than once. However, due to many reasons such as the epidemic, the current NBA expansion plan has been temporarily shelved.
Earlier today, NBA famous journalist Bill Simmons addressed the issue on the show, saying the NBA will expand to 32 teams, two new teams will be in Seattle and Las Vegas, and James is likely to become the owner of the Las Vegas team.
Bill Simmons said: "I have internal information that the league will expand to Las Vegas and Seattle. I think the front-runner to get ownership of that Las Vegas team will be Fenway Sports Group, which owns Liverpool and the Miami Dolphins. If I had to bet on a future scenario for LeBron, it would be that he would be involved and he would be a core member of this new team. James wants to be a team owner, he wants to run one of those teams, and I've heard that the combined value of the two teams is $6.5 billion to $7 billion. ”
Bill Simmons continued: "James will be the representative of that new team, just like Jordan of the year. I predicted that it might be Fenway Sports Group buying the Las Vegas team, and then James playing for them for two years before eventually joining as chief boss. You can imagine that Xiao Hua might change the rules for this so that the team owner can also play for that team, and he often meets the requirements of the players in different ways. ”
If it's true as Bill Simmons says, James will be the second NBA star to serve as chief boss after Jordan. Given James' financial resources, and the group behind him, he's not incapable of doing that.