{"id":33007,"date":"2025-07-30T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33007\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:56:06","slug":"grizzlies-magic-to-play-in-berlin-london-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33007\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies, Magic To Play In Berlin, London In January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies and Magic will play regular season games in Berlin on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, and London on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, according to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nba-announces-3-year-slate-of-games-in-europe-beginning-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the league announced that it will play regular season games in Manchester, England and Paris in 2027 and in Berlin and Paris in 2028.\u00a0The dates and participating teams for the games in 2027 and 2028 will be announced prior to those seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has not previously held a regular season contest in Germany. The matchup in England will be the league\u2019s 10th regular-season game in London.\u00a0 The NBA has not previously held a regular season game in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>The 2027 contest in France will be the league\u2019s sixth regular season game in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies will be playing their fifth and sixth games in Europe, while the Magic will be playing its fourth and fifth games in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The game in Germany will be a special treat for the Magic\u2019s brother duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wagnefr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Franz Wagner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wagnemo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moritz Wagner<\/a>, who are natives of Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have the Orlando Magic and the NBA play a regular-season game in our hometown of Berlin means everything to us. Growing up here, we dreamed of moments like this,\u201d they said, according to the press release. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge honor to represent Berlin and Germany and show how much the city and country love basketball.\u00a0 We hope we can inspire kids the way we were inspired watching games from afar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grizzlies and Magic will play regular season games in Berlin on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, and London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,19711,30566,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-33007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-franz-wagner","12":"tag-moritz-wagner","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}