The Major League team, which plays three seasons in Sacramento while its Strip stadium is built, viewed last week as establishing its Southern Nevada presence.

Some 28 minor league sports teams have come and gone in Las Vegas because they couldn’t replicate the Triple-A baseball team’s successful business model.

Less than five years after the Raiders convinced Southern Nevada to help build the NFL team a $1.9 billion stadium, baseball's Oakland A's are exploring a similar move and request.

A contentious $30 million, 10-year marketing deal between the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Raiders is still on the table after two months of delay, but several members of an advisory panel that was tasked to review the agreement have raised questions about how cost-effective it is.

Scott Huntley, an executive with the water authority, said Monday that the SNWA’s executive team had decided to move the proposed contract from the authority’s Thursday meeting and instead kick it to a January meeting of a citizen’s advisory board.

The deal, which is up for approval at the water authority’s board meeting on Thursday, is worth $2.5 million with an automatic annual four percent increase that will see the annual payment top out at about $3.5 million by 2029.