{"id":920203,"date":"2026-10-08T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920203\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:16:10","slug":"euroleague-owners-seek-way-forward-as-nba-prepares-to-enter-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920203\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague owners seek way forward as NBA prepares to enter Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin \u2013 Europe\u2019s biggest basketball clubs must find a way to work with the NBA, Panathinaikos owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos said on Wednesday, a day after the clubs\u00a0rejected a proposal from the U.S. league to join up for a new continental competition.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the continent\u2019s top clubs turned down an offer from the NBA, raising the prospect of a battle for Europe\u2019s teams, players and commercial riches.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the discussions said that the Euroleague\u2019s shareholder clubs rejected a collaboration offer from the NBA in their meeting in Italy, though the door on a deal was not yet closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlin \u2013 Europe\u2019s biggest basketball clubs must find a way to work with the NBA, Panathinaikos owner Dimitris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,219959,590,85],"class_list":["post-920203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-euroleague","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920203","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=920203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}