Hour 2: ESPN’ Shams Charania on the NBA’s Seattle expansion vote
Bump and Stacy
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Bump and Stacy are joined by ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania to get his thoughts on his report that the NBA are holding a vote on expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas, they answer your questions about new Seahawks running back Emanuel Wilson and some big wide receiver free agents in Four Down Territory, they hear about the very special guest at Byron Murphy’s wedding in The Timeline, and they break down what the Seahawks need to do to ace the offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:02.9 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.5 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:16.3 | Breaking news this morning from ESPN, Shams Trania, the NBA, will hold a vote at the Board of |
| 0:21.0 | Governors meetings next week to explore adding expansion teams in Vegas and Seattle with two new franchises set to start playing the 2028-29 season. Joining us now, Shams himself, and we've got a few questions. First, Shams, how are you? I'm good, guys. Stacey, everyone, I appreciate you guys have me on. We're happy to have you here. Very, very busy morning for you. And I'm going to start |
| 0:39.7 | with just kind of like a clarifying question. Stacey, everyone. I appreciate you guys having me on. We're happy to have you here. Very, very busy morning for you. And I'm going to start with just kind of like a clarifying question. Can you kind of walk us through the timeline and the steps we're looking at here? Because as you know here in Seattle, we've heard so many versions of, oh, there's going to be a vote maybe and they'll explore it. So this is a vote to explore expansion and then they'll vote on |
| 0:55.5 | expansion? So, yeah, this is a, this first vote next week on the 24th and 25th of the |
| 1:02.4 | board of governors meeting is a formality to pass from my understanding. And that will then |
| 1:08.9 | give the NBA the permission, readiness to go and and start a |
| 1:13.7 | bidding process start a franchise purchasing process to explore it says yeah explore these two new |
| 1:20.1 | expansion franchises in Las Vegas and in Seattle and so you give that approval to the league to |
| 1:27.1 | basically give them the authority to go out and start a bidding process. |
| 1:30.9 | And there's been momentum within the league, the board of governors to start this process, to move forward with this process. |
| 1:37.3 | They've been going through financials and numbers for the last year. |
| 1:41.2 | And industry executives have been saying across not only in NBA circles but in |
| 1:47.3 | financial circles that you're looking at anywhere between seven to ten billion |
| 1:50.6 | dollar range so if it reaches in that plateau you're looking at two top eight to |
| 1:55.3 | ten revenue generating markets and the appeal of those two markets and also the collective bargaining that the NBA is |
| 2:02.5 | under now, it's going to lead likely to a robust purchasing price for both teams. And so |
| 2:07.7 | it's multiple steps. The first step will then give the NBA over the next several months the |
| 2:12.9 | ability to go and get bids. And then by the end of the year, once they have an idea of exactly what the bids are, |
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