Reports that Maverick Carter and LeBron James have secured funding for their international basketball league have the NBA concerned.

James has made been very public about his goal of one day owning an NBA team. He's even targeted a city: Las Vegas. He's publicly lobbied for control of an expansion franchise in the desert for years, and for years, his odds of getting that team looked very strong. But two things have changed of late, and neither work in his favor.

Nikola Jokic isn't joining the Lakers and LeBron James isn't signing with the Nuggets. A yacht meeting instead was about starting an international basketball league.