{"id":34422,"date":"2025-07-31T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34422\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:28:10","slug":"europe-locked-in-for-nba-regular-season-games-in-2026-27-and-28-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34422\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe locked in for NBA regular season games in 2026, &#8217;27 and &#8217;28 \u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (USA) &#8211; A total of six regular season games over the next three years in the NBA will be played in the world class cities of Berlin, London, Manchester and Paris.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, Berlin will stage an NBA game when the Memphis Grizzlies take on the Orlando Magic on January 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>That means two of the city&#8217;s favorite sons, Germany&#8217;s 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup-winning brothers Franz and Mo Wagner of the Magic, will take center stage at the Uber Arena, where Franz helped Germany claim a top three finish at FIBA EuroBasket 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies and Magic will then meet at London&#8217;s O2 Arena on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has also announced that games will be played in Paris and Manchester in 2027 and in Berlin and Paris in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the league&#8217;s top players over the years have hailed from Europe and a number of them have already committed to playing in the upcoming <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-eurobasket-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FIBA Eurobasket 2025<\/a> which will be played from AUgust 27 to September 14.<\/p>\n<p>The first regular season matchups in Europe were held at London&#8217;s O2 Arena in 2011, a pair of games between the New Jersey Nets and the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (USA) &#8211; A total of six regular season games over the next three years in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-34422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422","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=34422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}