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NBA expansioi
Charlott
Ply The Associated Press
NF.W YORK ? I he NBA will
have four more teams before the
end of the decade, and rotating
them among divisions might
make even devoted fans di//.y.
I Ins past week, the NBA
Hoard of Governors accepted the
recommendation of its Expansion
Committee and accepted
Charlotte into the league for the
1988-89 season and Minneapolis.
Minn., 1989-90. T lie board then
went beyond the committee's
suggestion that ii choose between
two I lorida cities and invited
both Miami in 1988 and Orlando
m 1989.
Commissioner David Stern immediately
had to field questions
,ibout (.1 i luted talent, odd
numbers and division lineups
with no regard for geography.
Stern said that, even with ex
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pansion, the NBA would have
fewer teams than the fielded
by the NBA and the American
Basketball Association heloie a
merger in 1976.
"Iwenty seven teams might
sound like an illogical iinmher,
but it's certainly no more illogical
than 23," Stern said.
I he location of three ol the
four new teams in the I ast com
p I i c a te d the d i v i s io n a I
alignments, so the governors
adopted a rotating system that
has every new team spending ai
least one season in both the
I' a s i <. i n a n d VV e s I e i n
conferences.
In 19KX 89, ( harlotte will com
pete in the Atlantic Division and
Miami in the Midwest, with
Sacramento moving pei mancnt l\
tot he I'aci I ic.
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expansion draft and each will lose
one player each year. In the col
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new teams will choose eighth and
ninth.
I he Charlotte team is tentatively
known as the Spirit. I lie
others will be the Minnesota
Timber wolves, the Orlando
Magic and the Miami Heat.
Charlotte businessman (ieorge
Shinn, responsible for getting the
team lor the city, said the team
may not be named the Spirit
when the season begins. He said
there have been so many letters
and media coverage about the
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