The NBA will expand to 32 teams, how to distribute the joining fee? How are players from a new team obtained?

The NBA has been discussing plans for expansion several years ago, because there are many areas where basketball is not bad, but there are still no NBA teams. The last time the alliance expanded was in 2004, nearly 20 years have passed since now. Xiao Hua's plan is to announce the expansion of the army after the media agreement expires in 2024, and the two cities will be Las Vegas and Seattle.

Seattle previously had a supersonic team with a 41-year history, but in 2008 it moved to Russia City and changed its name to the Thunder, and the new team will inherit the supersonic record. Because both cities are in the West, a Western Conference team will be traded to the East for balance, most likely geographically, the Grizzlies. The NBA will expand to 32 teams, how to distribute the joining fee? How are players from a new team obtained?

The NBA is different from the five major leagues of football, its own circle is closed, there is no promotion and promotion system, so if the outside consortium wants to enter the NBA, it can only buy a team or expand the army. Buying a team is a deal between the owner and the owner, and the expansion of the army is subject to a franchise fee.

When the Bobcats entered the league in 2004, they gave 300 million, and the league has long been different from the past through the rapid development of these years, the joining fee will reach an exaggerated 2.5 billion, and the expansion of the two teams is 5 billion. This revenue will also be directly distributed to the other 30 teams, each team can receive 160 million. This is also one of the reasons why the NBA's last few team transactions have sold super high prices, and they can immediately return 160 million yuan, and there will be new sky-high broadcast contracts in the future.

To expand a new team, it is natural to have new players to play. The Bobcats (now the Hornets) were formed through draft and expansion drafts, as well as the free agent market.

Since the expansion to 32 teams, the NBA's first round will also be correspondingly expanded to 32 players, and the new team will get the right to draw lotto, but it should be the first few picks to protect, and the Bobcats were also the top three protections at the time, and the result was the No. 4 pick drawn, and then traded upwards to the top pick.

In the expansion draft, you can pick any number of people from another 30 teams, of course, each team will also have a protective quota, which used to be 8, now it may be 4. Basically, they will not pick core players, because they are new teams, so they will generally pick young and potential ones. The Bobcats picked Gerard Wallace and cultivated him.

Because it is a new team, the salary space is completely blank, even if you participate in the draft and expansion draft, you should be able to leave tens of millions of salary space, so that you can directly attract strong players in the free agent market and obtain the core of the team.

It's worth mentioning that the new collective bargaining agreement allows active players to own shares in NBA or WNBA teams, so James is likely to become one of the owners of two new teams.