{"id":365164,"date":"2025-12-22T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365164\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:57:07","slug":"nba-moves-closer-to-launching-european-mens-league-with-fiba-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365164\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA moves closer to launching European men\u2019s league with Fiba | NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA<\/a> confirmed Monday that it would begin pursuing teams and ownership groups for a new professional European men\u2019s league it hopes to launch in partnership with Fiba.<\/p>\n

The prospective league would feature permanent teams and additional spots up for grabs via an annual qualification pathway. Clubs in Fiba-affiliated domestic leagues around Europe could qualify for the new league through the Basketball<\/a> Champions League or an end-of-year tournament.<\/p>\n

The league calendar would avoid conflicting with domestic and international schedules to permit players to fulfill all their commitments over the course of a season, the NBA noted in a news release.<\/p>\n

Valuations for the permanent franchises could exceed $1bn, according to CNBC, which reported that bankers from JPMorgan and the Raine Group have met with at least 70 potential investors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur conversations with various stakeholders in Europe have reinforced our belief that an enormous opportunity exists around the creation of a new league on the continent,\u201d commissioner Adam Silver said in the NBA\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether with Fiba, we look forward to engaging prospective clubs and ownership groups that share our vision for the game\u2019s potential in Europe.\u201c<\/p>\n

The NBA and Fiba publicized in March their plan to jointly explore creating the league. Monday\u2019s announcement included a promise to fund the development of European basketball at the pro, academy and grassroots levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvancing further this joint NBA-Fiba project is great news for the European basketball community,\u201d Fiba secretary general Andreas Zagklis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe format of the league respects European sport model principles by offering any ambitious club in the continent a fair pathway to the top. The project is conceived in a way that will improve the sustainability of the entire European basketball ecosystem, including players, clubs, leagues and national federations, by generating a knock-on effect that will strongly benefit basketball fans throughout Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NBA said more updates are expected to follow in the coming months. The league intends to receive nonbinding ownership bids in January and hold a vote to green-light the league at the board of governors meeting in March, according to CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA confirmed Monday that it would begin pursuing teams and ownership groups for a new professional European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-365164","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\/365164","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=365164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}