The NBA continues to maintain the position that expansion will not be addressed until after the league finalizes a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NBPA, as well as new national media rights deals with its broadcast partners.

The NBA is widely expected to expand to Seattle and possibly Las Vegas or Mexico City by the end of the decade.

"There haven’t been any discussions on expansion recently," said Adam Silver during his All-Star Game press conference. "What I’ve said before, because the topic comes up a lot, I would say mainly people asking me or others in the league about it is that it is natural at some point that an organization expands. In this case because we’re both in a CBA cycle and a national media cycle, our current deals are up in two and a half years.

"The view from our governors has been let’s figure out exactly what the new CBA looks like, let’s figure out what our new media deals look like. Then let’s think about expansion.

"So invariably we will. There’s no active discussions in the league office right now, but we’ll turn back to it in a few years."