Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is in favor of an NBA franchise in Mexico City, but he might have to settle for a midseason tournament.
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As the NBA continues to brainstorm ways to make regular-season games for exciting throughout the 82-game grind, NBA commissioner Adam Silver hinted Saturday of more games south of the border.
"There's no market more important for us than Mexico, we already have discussions earlier (Saturday) about bringing other games here," Silver said in a press conference before Saturday's Spurs-Suns game in Mexico City.
"But ultimately it will make more sense to bring more teams rather than just have two teams play each other for a single event to maybe bring multiple teams and to have some sort of midseason tournament, sort of like a round-robin tournament."
Silver has become known for his ideas, big and small. He's experimented with a 44-minute preseason game and is considering adopting a new playoff system that takes the best teams regardless of conference, among other visions.
"In terms of a franchise here in Mexico City, it is something to look at," Silver said.
"Obviously, it's an incredible market with over 20 million people, the largest market in North America and, while we have no immediate plans to expand, one of the things that we look at, it's whether expanding will be additive to the league as a whole and clearly coming to Mexico City, not just because the population of the city but as a gateway to the rest of Latin America could potentially be very important for the league."
Saturday's Spurs-Suns game was the fifth regular-season game played in Mexico, which has hosted 24 NBA games since 1992.