NBA Has No Plans for Anaheim : Arena: The Mighty Ducks will rule the roost as basketball looks to the land of hockey--Canada.

The Mighty Ducks won’t have to share the Anaheim Arena with a National Basketball Assn. expansion team for at least a few years, if ever.

After meeting during the league’s All-Star weekend Feb. 19-21 in Salt Lake City, the NBA’s expansion committee announced it was favorably disposed toward expansion to Canada, but mentioned no other sites. The five-member committee also said it didn’t expect to recommend to the Board of Governors that the 27-team league expand at all before the 1995-96 season.

The expansion committee will meet again in April and report to the Board of Governors later that month. Laker owner Jerry Buss is a member of the expansion committee and chairman of the board of governors.

“From the sound of (the committee’s statement), it sounds as if the NBA expands anywhere, it will be to Canada,” said Brian McIntyre, the league’s vice president for public relations.

Anaheim’s chances of being granted an expansion team are minimal, a league source said Thursday, because of the established, close proximity of the Clippers at the Sports Arena and the Lakers in Inglewood at the Forum. Its chances of persuading the Clippers or Lakers to move are even smaller.

Although the Clippers have expressed dissatisfaction with the state of their aging building, a club official on Thursday repeated the Clippers’ oft-stated intention to remain in Los Angeles. The Lakers would like to have the extra income source of luxury boxes, which were unheard of when the Forum opened in 1967. King owner Bruce McNall, whose team shares the Forum, has recently talked about forming a partnership with Buss to construct a new building for the Kings and Lakers, but the possible sites are near the current Forum.

A lesser factor, perhaps, is that both the Kings and Lakers are considered the “glamour” teams of their respective leagues because they attract visitors from the Hollywood movie and TV industry. Those visits would probably end, and the glamour fade, should either team move to Anaheim.

An established team thinking of moving to Anaheim--the Seattle SuperSonics are said to be looking for a new home--would also be likely to face opposition from the area’s two NBA representatives. The last NBA franchise to shift operations was the Sacramento Kings, who moved from Kansas City to Sacramento for the 1985-86 season.

McIntyre said he assumed an NBA team moving into the Anaheim Arena would have to pay an indemnification fee to the Lakers and Clippers, as the Ducks are paying the Kings $25 million for infringing upon their NHL territory, but he was not sure that would be the case.

The arrival of a team in Anaheim could erode the attendance of the Lakers and Clippers. A Laker spokesman said the club doesn’t categorize its season ticket holders by residence, but he estimated 10% to 15% of the team’s 4,059 season ticket holders are from Orange County residents. An account might comprise more than one ticket. The team’s season ticket base this season is about 11,000.

Carl Lahr, vice president of marketing for the Clippers, estimated 20% of his team’s season tickets are owned by Orange County residents. The amount varies from year to year, he said. The Clippers’ season ticket base is approximately 8,000.

Expanding to Toronto, Canada’s largest city, would be in keeping with the NBA’s strategy of establishing a strong international presence. The Toronto-based Palestra Group, headed by businessman Lawrence Tanenbaum, made the first official expansion application to the league during All-Star weekend. McIntyre said other Canadian groups are expected to submit applications before the next expansion committee meeting.