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NBA commissioner Adam Silver was in Mexico City for the NBA's annual Mexico City Game. Ahead of the Miami Heat vs Washington Wizards matchup, Silver spoke about NBA expansion and the chance that will include a Mexico City franchise.

"Personally, I would love to have a team" in Mexico City is what Silver said during his press conference. After, in a one-on-one with The Athletic, the NBA commissioner said that expanding to Mexico City is a challenge and not happening anytime soon.

"Being direct, it’s highly unlikely Mexico City would jump above U.S. cities that are currently under consideration," Silver said. "But at the same time, once we move into expansion mode and start looking at all the considerations that go with expansion, I think that would then allow us to have more of a template to understand whether a city like Mexico City would be suitable."

Silver said that many cities have approached the NBA about expansion, but until recently, the NBA wasn't considering adding new franchises. Now that the league is studying expansion, adding a franchise in Mexico City is "many years off".

Silver also added that his preference is that the NBA adds two new teams when it does expand, as opposed to only adding one, "because then we might have to do some adjustments in the conferences, (and) I think it makes sense to have two conferences of 16 teams if we were to do it."

Via Joe Vardon/The Athletic

Players don't want to live in Mexico, too dangerous. Messed around and get kidnapped by the cartel.

dubbmotta wrote:Players don't want to live in Mexico, too dangerous. Messed around and get kidnapped by the cartel.

Says a dude who has probably NEVER visited Mexico City and probably knows very little about the country as a whole. Get some knowledge before you type ignorant things.

ghillphx wrote:

dubbmotta wrote:Players don't want to live in Mexico, too dangerous. Messed around and get kidnapped by the cartel.

Says a dude who has probably NEVER visited Mexico City and probably knows very little about the country as a whole. Get some knowledge before you type ignorant things.

Calm down sparky, I"ve been there twice...American ballers do not want to live in Mexico..Just like you don't see cities like Utah, Toronto, Detriot and Vancouver when they had a team, these are not desirable areas when you have other options..I've never heard an American say, "I want to go live in Mexico City"

dubbmotta wrote:

ghillphx wrote:

dubbmotta wrote:Players don't want to live in Mexico, too dangerous. Messed around and get kidnapped by the cartel.

Says a dude who has probably NEVER visited Mexico City and probably knows very little about the country as a whole. Get some knowledge before you type ignorant things.

Calm down sparky, I"ve been there twice...American ballers do not want to live in Mexico..Just like you don't see cities like Utah, Toronto, Detriot and Vancouver when they had a team, these are not desirable areas when you have other options..I've never heard an American say, "I want to go live in Mexico City"

You know zero about Mexico City if you've never heard an American say they want to live there. Walk three blocks in La Roma or in La Condesa and you'll find tons of Americans who said exactly those words. Look up Mexico City on Tik Tok. I've lived in Mexico City 4 years, and I can tell you with 100% assurance, you know nothing.

The greatest problem with putting a team in Mexico City is its elevation, more than 2000 miles higher than Denver. We’ve seen from the games played there that it’s very physically challenging for players. NBA schedules require teams to play shortly after arriving, usually at most a day before. The relatively long travel time from most NBA cities to Mexico City wouldn’t help with that.