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NBA Europe-based league may launch October 2027 (www.espn.com)

submitted 4 months ago by TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml to c/nba@lemmy.world

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The NBA is targeting October 2027 as a potential launch date for the new Europe-based league that it and FIBA have been working to make happen, a league official said Friday.

NBA Europe managing director George Aivazoglou, speaking at a conference in Milan, said the first season of the new league might be described as "a semi-opening," indicating that not all of the slots in the planned 16-team league could be allocated at that time.

The 16-team model calls for 12 permanent franchises, Aivazoglou said. He listed current target countries as Britain (with the potential host cities there being London and Manchester), France (Paris and Lyon), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Rome and Milan), Germany (Munich and Berlin), Greece (Athens) and Turkey (Istanbul). No deals with any city or club have been formally announced by the NBA at this point.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't this a bad time to start while Europeans seek independence from the US?

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I’m not sure how much that plays in given sports often seem to exist outside stuff like that but overall what does this offer that current leagues don’t unless they’re going to do something that actually involves NBA teams or players which I don’t really see working out.