“Personally, I do. OK, I do,” he told Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo! Sports when asked if he would support the expansion of the NBA.
“And I think you just hit on a couple of markets that make the most sense, [Seattle and Las Vegas].”
Colangelo was the acting owner of the Suns when the NBA ushered in new six teams during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Of the six teams added in Minnesota, Orlando, Miami, Toronto, Vancouver and Charlotte, five remain in the cities they originated and all six remain in the league today. The former Suns owner believes that the talent pool within the league and around the world will continue to grow and support the introduction of two new teams.
“The stars continue to come,” Colangelo explained to Yahoo! Sports.
“[Mikal] Bridges in Brooklyn, he gets 45 in his [third] game. That’s a new [star]. I don’t worry about, ‘Well, how are you going to populate these new teams?’ There’s plenty of talent and more stars on the rise.”
