Not in near future does not mean not ever

Read the article.

LK has said they will only send one team next year.

He said not in the near future, so 'ever' is a possibility but far from a certainty.

I actually think in reading his comments and justification that it's not that hard to see it happening. He made the point that in order to get the London game to happen, they had to stop playing in the US about 5 days prior to taking the court in the UK. So if they did the same thing as the MLB and sent teams here to open the season, you remove that concern about time out on at least one side of the schedule. You could also increase the ROI by sending three teams and having them play a round-robin so each team gets two games out of the way while they're on the ground here.

Because we're ahead, time-wise, it's not totally outrageous, logistically speaking. Fly in on the 27th of September, play 1 game on the 1st of October (which would be the first game of the regular season by at least 14 hours), 1 game on the 3rd of October and the final game on the 4th of October. 1 team could depart following their game on the 3rd, having 2 regular season games under their belt, and being home by the 3rd of October anyway. Then don't make them play again until the 7th. The other two teams get home on the 4th, play their third game for the season on the 8th. No question it would be expensive for them but it's not logistically impossible, especially since there are 4 California teams you could choose from to make the trip.

Only 14 countries have the NBA for free, hardly a reason for why we have the 2nd most subscriptions.

Here's a list of them...
The United States
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
China
Indonesia
Mongolia
The Philippines
Thailand
New Zealand

"As for Silver not bringing a game down here, if fans had the nerve to boycott NBA league pass and get their games through other means, I bet suddenly he'd find the money."

Not a chance unfortunately. There is only chicken feed to be had in Australia with our small population and isolation from big population centres. League Pass brings in bugger all for the NBA, it's more about fan engagement than revenue.

They only went to Africa because the players are "African Americans “ it was a black thing.

They aren't doing an exhibition game down here like that as it isn’t a “thing" and we arent a big enough market to make it worthwhile

So why did they just play in London if its a "black thing"?

Canada doesn't officially have FTA NBA but a lot of Canadian cities are near the US border so get TV stations from boarder towns in the US, for example Toronto is under 100km away from Buffalo, New York, so Toronto can get the ABC affiliate from across the border in Buffalo (WKBW-TV) to watch the games on FTA in the US.

This however doesn't give them access to Raptors games which are only on pay tv unless ABC shows their games in the US (which is rare).

Strongly doubt boycotting league pass would get NBA here. Just a tiny drop in the bucket, it's not about money,their petty cash would buy the league. Players are on the road non stop and having to spend all that time in the air for a few games is inefficient. Be like sending afl over during season and teams playing the next week back. They struggle to handle trip to west coast.
Best we can hope for is some preseason games, Bucks and Spurs would be prime candidates, along with Jazz maybe before Exum is not resigned.

Man, is this what it feels like to be a Tasmanian footy fan?