{"id":377365,"date":"2025-12-29T03:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:42:12","slug":"unicaja-president-nba-franchises-will-be-in-european-big-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377365\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicaja president: “NBA franchises will be in European big cities\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops Team \/ info@eurohoops.net<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that the NBA, in partnership with FIBA, is preparing to establish a new league in Europe in the near future. This project, called NBA Europe, is expected to include Galatasaray<\/a>, as announced by President Dursun \u00d6zbek.<\/p>\n

But some teams won\u2019t make it to this new league, as NBA will prioritize big cities from Europe.<\/p>\n

Antonio L\u00f3pez Nieto, Unicaja<\/a> de M\u00e1laga\u2019s president, talked about his team\u2019s aspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will never be an NBA franchise. Those franchises will be in very large cities, which is their idea for cities like Madrid, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bIstanbul, London, Paris\u2026 Those are the teams that would make up the 12 permanent franchises that have to pay, they say, approximately 500 million over 10 years with a television contract. Then there are 4 spots that the rest of the teams that compete in the Basketball Champions League or in the national leagues might be able to access each season and occupy one of those 4 places\u201d.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez Nieto also talked about the need of finding a solution to this situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can\u2019t be four or five European competitions. People are confused, we divide interests, players are overloaded with games, and injuries are very frequent. And with so many games, it\u2019s very difficult to get people to attend. It\u2019s not economically viable; it\u2019s madness. It\u2019s a problem of egos, and all parties should sit down and use common sense to create a logical basketball system with one major competition that has, let\u2019s say, financial control and a real return. And a second strong competition that could allow entry into the NBA or EuroLeague, or whatever it\u2019s called. That would be the logical thing to do with a more coherent structure\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops Team \/ info@eurohoops.net\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret that the NBA, in partnership with FIBA, is preparing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-377365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377365","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=377365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}