ESPN.com · Sep 18, 2024
NBA expansion: What an NBA expansion draft could look like in the future
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With the NBA poised this season to consider expansion -- perhaps adding at least one franchise in the next two to three years, as we laid out in Tuesday's FAQ -- let's consider how any new team(s) would be built.
The NBA is a different league than it was when the last expansion franchise came aboard in 2004, with an increasingly Byzantine set of salary cap rules. Teams are far more forward-thinking and proactive than they were two decades ago, which could make for interesting choices as rosters are built through the expansion draft and beyond.