NBA Considers Expansion, <br />Commissioner Adam Silver Says.<br />On Dec. 21, Silver told the media that COVID-19 <br />has caused the league to re-examine the <br />possibility of future expansion.<br />I think I've always said that it's sort of the manifest destiny of the league that you expand at some point, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, via statement.<br />I'd say it's caused us to maybe dust off some of the analyses on the economic and competitive impacts of expansion. , NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, via statement.<br />Though expansion is not currently "on the front burner," Silver is "very appreciative of the markets that have indicated an interest in having an NBA team.".<br />Silver also addressed whether the NBA would return to a bubble for the playoffs next year.<br />It's our hope that given the planned rollout of the vaccine that we'll be going in the other direction, that it'll become increasingly more likely that there will be a return to a home-court advantage, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, via statement.<br />The new season kicks off Dec. 22
