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

Per Front Office Sports' Ben Horney, Daniel Roberts and Alex Schiffer, James, along with his business partner Maverick Carter, met with Nikola Jokić’s European agent about a new international basketball league last week.

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.