{"id":675366,"date":"2026-03-23T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675366\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:10:25","slug":"how-nba-expansion-will-reshape-the-entire-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675366\/","title":{"rendered":"How NBA Expansion Will Reshape the Entire League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFL Chicago adds three battles to April 11 billingThe Professional Fighters League added three bouts to its April 11 PFL Chicago event at Wintrust Arena, expanding a card headlined by Sergio Pettis vs. Mitchell McKee. The update spotlights Gabriel Braga (16\u20133) vs. debuting Mehdi Baydulaev (19\u20132), a featherweight pairing featuring Baydulaev\u2019s 13-fight win streak and nine submission victories. Also announced, Jena Bishop (9\u20133) returns following a third-round knockout loss to Liz Carmouche in the 2025 tournament final to meet unbeaten Borena Tsertsvadze (6\u20130), who makes her U.S. debut. In a welterweight matchup, Omar El Dafrawy (14\u20136) faces newcomer James Vake (7\u20131), competing for the first time since 2024 with most wins secured by strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Now PlayingPausedAd Playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFL Chicago adds three battles to April 11 billingThe Professional Fighters League added three bouts to its April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,3133,6073,6,9599,203],"class_list":["post-675366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-favorite-team","tag-las-vegas","tag-nba","tag-nba-expansion-draft","tag-the-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116281017826422080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}