NBA Expansion History Shows Paired Teams Paid Identical Fees

NBA commissioner Adam Silver is trying to push Seattle's expansion fee closer to the roughly $10 billion Las Vegas is expected to command. Every time the NBA has added multiple teams at once, each new franchise paid the same expansion fee. More potential ownership groups have shown interest in Las Vegas than in Seattle. That has opened a gap between the bids for the two markets. Sources told ESPN the Seattle offers are far below what the Las Vegas bidding war is producing. The NBA's last two e...