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June 3, 2020 - New Feature
If you play until 2100 you will now see the NBA expand in two phases. The first is European expansion during the 2050s. The next is Asian expansion starting in the 2080s.
You might wonder where this is all coming from. Well there are lot of companies trying to get us to space cheaply. The start of that is probably helping NASA, then space tourism, and then eventually it will be used to cut travel time of long distance trips substantially. We could eventually be able to travel essentially anywhere in the world in under 3 hours.
As an example, we went from two guys getting a plan off the ground in 1903 to having mass air travel by the 1970s. If you look at baseball that enabled the league to branch out in the 1950-60s from the northeast to more southern and western cities. The NBA wasn't around prior to the 1940s, but if you look at those older leagues they are very concentrated as far as location.
So if we are on a similar timeline by 2100 the idea of worldwide sports leagues become a lot more feasible. There are still challenges as far as time zone differences, but we have those challenges now as well. Eventually they will probably figure it out or at least make it worth tolerating. At Grizzled GM we are on top of it and the future is here.