{"id":612119,"date":"2026-04-17T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:35:07","slug":"nuggets-pacers-to-face-off-in-mexico-city-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612119\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets, Pacers to face off in Mexico City next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY &#8212; The NBA is sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana<\/a> to Mexico City for a regular-season game Nov. 7, the league said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be the 35th in Mexico, all since 1992, and the 16th regular-season contest there. Other than the U.S. and Canada, no nation has played host to more NBA games than Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hosting the 35th game in the country reflects the depth of the NBA&#8217;s relationship with Mexico and the role this event plays in bringing the global game closer to fans locally, throughout Latin America, and around the world,&#8221; said Raul Zarraga, senior vice president of NBA Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Denver has played in Mexico once before, that being a preseason game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State<\/a> in Monterrey in 2006. The Pacers are heading to Mexico for the first time, set to become the 23rd NBA franchise to play a game in that country.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be played during the week of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA will also play regular-season games in Paris and Manchester, England, next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY &#8212; The NBA is sending Denver and Indiana to Mexico City for a regular-season game Nov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-612119","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\/612119","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=612119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}