LeBron James assured that he wants to own an NBA team and aspires for that team to settle in Las Vegas (USA), where there is currently no franchise in the league.

"I want to own a team. I want to buy a team, of course (...). I want a team in Las Vegas," LeBron said in a preview of the new instalment of his television program The Shop.

LeBron, who co-owns the Premier League's Liverpool and the MLB's Boston Red Sox, has insisted of late that he wants to own an NBA team when he leaves the courts.

However, the expansion to Las Vegas that LeBron envisions is not among the NBA's imminent plans for now.

"Not true (talk about expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas). Maybe some in the league are talking about potential expansion after the 2024 season. At some point, this league will expand, but not right now," Adam said. Silver, commissioner of the NBA, at a press conference last Thursday before the start of the between finals the Boston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors (2-1 so far).

According to Forbes magazine, these statements by LeBron come a week after the Los Angeles Lakers star became the first active NBA player to amass a fortune of more than a billion dollars, which compiles the lists of the richest in the world.

The publication dedicated an article to LeBron and revealed that he had accumulated some 385 million dollars playing (with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers) plus 900 million from his advertising collaborations and other businesses.

LeBron is the second professional basketball player to make a list after Michael Jordan, who made it ten years after retiring from the NBA when he invested in the Charlotte Hornets team.

Known throughout the world for being "the city of gambling", Las Vegas has also stood out in recent years for its impressive growth in sports.NHL 

Thus, this February, it became the first city to host two All-Stars simultaneously: the NFL Pro Bowl and the NHL All-Star game.

Las Vegas has also played its cards to attract top-level franchises, something it has recently achieved with the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights (created in 2017), the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders (arrived in 2020 from Oakland) and the Las Vegas Aces. of the WNBA (landed in 2018 from San Antonio).