European and global league possibilities

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Expected talks being held today or tomorrow?

Productive?

Will either side break them off?

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Euroleague could move forward with designating permanent franchises. That would be their strongest move, if every team accepts.

How much more talk are they willing to have ith NBA without meaningful progress?

Sale or even proposed sale of a London franchise would be bold.

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There are probably outside bids for Spanish and German cities but none hinted at in the press so far. Any credible challengers?

Greek and Turkish commentary has been focused on existing clubs.

After early talk of competition for Manchester, I did not hear any recent updates.

Most of the talk is about London, Paris and Milan.

A little talk about Rome and Napoli.

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No signs of active talk of sale of NBA Europe media rights but how much may have occured? Even before NBA media rights deal with those partners? Is it really all spec at this point? It sounds like it but not sure.

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Project B Women's announces stops in China and Spain in addition to Japan.

Does not appear to be going anywhere in the Americas.

4 more stops to name. France, UK, middle east, one more in Asia?

Going heavy on lifestyle tie-ins.


Nothing new said about Men's tour.

Ticket prices and sales will be interesting to see. Age & income of buyers?

How many games per team per stop? 4 or more? Multiple same day games at arenas or multiple venues?

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Have the football clubs with state or speculated interest in NBA Europe project had significant conversations with EuroLeague? With each other? With their football leagues?

I would assume so, but haven't heard about these conversations.

Have to assess long-term impact of prospective rise of europeam basketball on football. Have to decide whether to act independently or jointly for leverage.

How many general strategies have been considered? How do they rank?

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Did the leagues meet yesterday, today or tomorrow? Intense or low-key?

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EuroLeague reportedly receives interest to join from 10 new clubs. Formal review to begin in July for possible expansion at later time. No change in league size for '26-27 season.

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"Fenerbahce agreed to sign the 10-year license with the EuroLeague."

Still waiting on others including Real Madrid. Some say the deadline was today, some say it could go to June 30 or possibly beyond.

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One source now says the meeting of NBA and Euroleague was pushed back to April 28. The calendar keeps flipping into future.

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Supersonic airplanes might make inter-continental basketball a little easier.

But it is probably being mentioned at this time to try to hype NBA Europe franchise bids.

If there were a European team or division in the NBA 7-10 day trips could be utilized and saving an hour or two 2 flights would seem of pretty marginal impact. All the prep of a trip before and after the flight is a pretty big part of the time spent. The physiological, psychological, social impact of shifting to another continent/ culture would be far more consequential than flight time. The timezone shift is more significant for the players, broadcast and fans.

European games would need to be on weekends to be seen at a reasonable afternoon time to be seen live in US. US games would need to start late to be seen at reasonable afternoon time in Europe.

So the European trip schedule might be travel Wed. or Thurs., play Saturday, Wed., Saturday, Sunday, travel Monday, play Wed. or Thursday. If wanted to play Tuesday and Thursday instead of Wednesday, they could.

Not absolutely every game would have to be seen live on both continents. A non-live condensed broadcast could be acceptable in a long regular season.