June 6 (UPI) -- NBA team owners are interested in expansion and are expected to discuss the topic at a July meeting, commissioner Adam Silver told reporters.
Silver made the comments at his annual news conference before Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday in Oklahoma City.
"We have an owners' meeting in July in Las Vegas," Silver said. "It will be on the agenda to take the temperature of the room. We have committees that are already talking about it.
"But my sense is at that meeting, they're going to give direction to me and my colleagues at the league office that we should continue to explore it."
"The goal isn't necessarily to have a different Champion every year, it's to have... parity of opportunity."
