I think they should stagger the 2 team's entry as it's better for the new clubs to not split the talent. NBA and NHL messed up in prior expansions when they gave the new clubs crappy teams, thus after the initial bump of 3 or 4 seasons, the newness wore off and the clubs were struggling on the ice and floor still.
Seattle's arena is ready to go. LV will need time to build a new one, though they could play out of the Knights arena temporarily. See what the NBA does with their ED and how helpful they are to those clubs. Though, I think LV will easily be a destination spot for players with no state tax and the night life. But, LV will need to be careful who they bring in as you need enough maturity to not get caught up in it.
Yeah, I thought about the NBA splitting the entrance of those two new teams.
Though, it would be tough given that within a year or two you might have teams losing two players in the expansion draft(s) while other teams lose no one.
If you bring them in together yoju would have every team losing a player as the expansion draft probably requires 15 guys to be taken and you currently have 30 teams in the league.
On the other hand, I'm also curious to see what the rules will be.
Everyone's talking about the old rules(which Charlotte worked under 20 years ago) but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't take notice of the NHL rules and how it might help create better teams and even more buzz around them.
