The G-League on the verge of its final expansion, This season, there are 26 NBA teams with affiliates. Next year, the Wizards will the join the mix, fielding a team who’ll play their new training facility in the nation’s capital. The Pelicans are committed to a team and looking at locations along the Gulf Coast. That will leave the Trail Blazers and Nuggets without teams ... and under increasing pressure to field them.
What’s next? The NBA sees the G-League as part of a feeder system much in the same way European soccer and basketball teams have established junior leagues across the continent.