The race for a Las Vegas NBA team is now also about where it would play. Two arena pitches surfaced this week, one backed by Mayor Shelley Berkley.

The NBA wants to decide by the end of 2026 whether to add zero, one or two teams. Las Vegas and Seattle are the only markets under formal review.

Fisher Brothers, the firm behind Area15, proposed an 18,000- to 20,000-seat arena on land between Area15 and Palace Station, just west of I-15.

Berkley called the site “one of the premier development opportunities in the Las Vegas region” and wants a major team inside city limits.

Resorts World Las Vegas says it met with bid groups about an arena on 42 acres it controls on the North Strip.

Bill Foley with Jerry Colangelo, Nancy Walton Laurie with Bill Laurie, and Marc Lasry with Steve Apostolopoulos remain in the running.

The expansion fee is reportedly expected to land between $12 billion and $13 billion, plus another $2 billion to $3 billion for a new arena.

T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Photo: Ron Mader / Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized.

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