Adam Silver has acknowledged the NBA plans on working on expansion once they finalize their next round of media rights deals.

“We will turn to expansion once those new media deals are done,” Silver said Monday at the annual APSE conference. “It’s not a sure thing but, as I’ve said before, I think it’s natural that organizations grow over time.”

The NBA had three major business items on their agenda this decade in its new Collective Bargaining Agreement, followed by media rights negotations, and then expansion.

Seattle and Las Vegas are the two cities that have been floated most heavily as possible expansion sites for the NBA.

Silver called Summer League “our 31st franchise.”

“We will look at this market,” he said. “There’s no doubt there’s enormous interest in Seattle. That’s not a secret. There are other markets that have indicated interest. For the people who hear or read about this interview, we are not engaged in that process now. We’re not taking meetings right now with any potential groups. What we’re saying to everyone, privately is the same thing I’m saying publicly that there’ll be a very open process at the time already to consider expansion. But that’s not yet. That’s not yet now.”