{"id":915050,"date":"2026-09-30T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:20:11","slug":"dana-white-confirms-he-remains-involved-in-las-vegas-nba-expansion-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915050\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White confirms he remains involved in Las Vegas NBA expansion bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/search\/gallery-fighter?q=dana+white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana<br \/>\nWhite<\/a> remains involved in discussions surrounding a potential<br \/>\nNBA expansion franchise in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> CEO was asked about the NBA<br \/>\npotentially expanding to Las Vegas and whether he remains involved<br \/>\nwith a prospective ownership group during Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Dana-Whites-Contender-Series-12411\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nDana White\u2019s Contender Series<\/a> post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO Dana White says he remains involved with a prospective<br \/>\nownership group tied to NBA expansion in Las Vegas<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhite previously acknowledged that he had been approached about<br \/>\npotentially becoming part of an ownership group connected to a Las<br \/>\nVegas NBA expansion effort. When asked for an update following<br \/>\nreports that the NBA is reviewing finalist bids for a potential Las<br \/>\nVegas franchise, White simply said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/50060732\/nba-reviewing-finalists-bids-vegas-team-12-13b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN<\/a> reported that the NBA is reviewing bids<br \/>\nfor a potential Las Vegas expansion franchise. The bids reportedly<br \/>\nvalue the franchise and arena proposals at between $12 billion and<br \/>\n$13 billion. The three finalist groups are led by Nancy Walton<br \/>\nLaurie and Bill Laurie; Steve Apostolopoulos and Marc Lasry; and<br \/>\nBill Foley and Jerry Colangelo.<\/p>\n<p>White has attended several NBA games and is a fan of the Boston<br \/>\nCeltics. He is also close friends with Celtics head coach Joe<br \/>\nMazzulla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White remains involved in discussions surrounding a potential NBA expansion franchise in Las Vegas. The Ultimate Fighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[1331,49,48,45555,459,44,82],"class_list":["post-915050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-article","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-https-www-sherdog-com-news-news-ufc","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}