{"id":900283,"date":"2026-09-21T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900283\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:44:16","slug":"nba-europe-seen-as-chance-to-boost-global-popularity-of-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900283\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Europe seen as chance to boost global popularity of basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The NBA is hoping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/27\/nbpa-nba-europe-expansion-revenue-should-be-part-of-basketball-related-income\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/27\/nbpa-nba-europe-expansion-revenue-should-be-part-of-basketball-related-income\/\">NBA Europe<\/a> can become a \u201cpopular complement\u201d to European and FIBA basketball, giving fans an \u201copportunity to embrace new teams, new stars, and help the sport thrive globally,\u201d according to Gary Washburn of the BOSTON GLOBE. The NBA has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/16\/nba-europe-nba-africa-remain-on-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/16\/nba-europe-nba-africa-remain-on-track\/\">built an international league in Africa<\/a>, and the goal is to \u201cpour resources not only into the new basketball league but the development of aspiring players, coaches, and officials.\u201d A \u201cmajor loophole\u201d that could emerge is \u201cwhether the revenues created from the league could be shared with the NBA players\u201d as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/06\/bucks-kuzma-criticizes-nba-cba-says-apron-system-acting-as-hard-cap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/06\/bucks-kuzma-criticizes-nba-cba-says-apron-system-acting-as-hard-cap\/\">their CBA agreement<\/a>, but those are issues that will \u201ceventually be addressed.\u201d For now, the NBA is \u201cdetermined to take over Europe &#8212; and they seemingly have all the resources and opportunity to do so\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/09\/19\/sports\/sunday-basketball-notes-nba-europe\/?event=event12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOSTON GLOBE, 9\/19<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA is hoping NBA Europe can become a \u201cpopular complement\u201d to European and FIBA basketball, giving fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,40755,3389,590,91691,85],"class_list":["post-900283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-fiba","tag-international","tag-nba","tag-nba-europe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900283","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=900283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}