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Nets-Raptors Game Draws Near-Sellout Crowd In Montreal

10.11.2018

Last night's Nets-Raptors preseason game at Montreal's Bell Centre drew an "announced crowd" of 20,526 (TWITTER.com, 10/10). The venue's capacity for basketball is just over 22,000 (Mult.). The Raptors' 118-91 win was played "against the backdrop of a news conference earlier in the day touting the possibility of an NBA expansion franchise." Former politician Michel Fortier and former Canadiens COO Kevin Gilmore "made their case in a presentation to the Montreal Board of Trade." Fortier admitted that the NBA has "no immediate plans for expansion." The "best-case scenario has the NBA adding teams after it finalizes a new TV contract" in '25 (MONTREAL GAZETTE, 10/11).

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