{"id":768947,"date":"2022-12-19T17:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=768947"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:29:08","slug":"adam-silver-expansion-franchise-in-mexico-city-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/adam-silver-expansion-franchise-in-mexico-city-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver: Expansion Franchise in Mexico City &#8216;Makes Sense&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time since 2019, the NBA hosted a regular season game in Mexico City. The Miami Heat took on the San Antonio Spurs on Dec. 16, resulting in the Heat winning a 111-101 contest. This marked the 12th time the League hosted a regular season game in Mexico City and the first time they had done so since COVID-19 first appeared on the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico City continues to establish itself as a lasting venue for the NBA to host games. In fact, the G League has made it a home for one of their franchises, the Mexico City Capitanes. Before tip-off between the Spurs and the Heat, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed how, at this rate, Mexico City may prove to be a place that can one day have its own NBA team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMexico City (is) doing all the things necessary to demonstrate to the league that, ultimately, we may be in a position to house an NBA team here,\u201d Silver said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanielparishflannery\/2022\/12\/19\/the-nba-is-expanding-into-mexico-city\/?sh=790fc8836aea\">per Forbes<\/a>. \u201cWhen you look at the success we\u2019ve had in Canada to the north, beginning in the early \u201990s, it makes sense to me that we would expand to the south, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Forbes: \u201cMexico is already the fifth biggest market for the NBA League Pass on-demand streaming service.\u201d In addition, \u201cMexico is also the fourth biggest market for the NBA\u2019s online merchandise store.\u201d It shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise if the NBA decides to expand to Mexico City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2019, the NBA hosted a regular season game in Mexico City. The Miami Heat took on the San Antonio Spurs on Dec. 16, resulting in the Heat winning a 111-101 contest. This marked the 12th time the League hosted a regular season game in Mexico City and the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":768948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63826,62493],"tags":[6284,103,110],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-768947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-adam-silver","tag-miami-heat","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768962,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768947\/revisions\/768962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768947"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=768947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}