The NBA has hired former NBAer and Bulls EVP Artūras Karnišovas as its “consultant for building NBA Europe,” according to sources cited by THE ATHLETIC. Sources noted that Karnišovas will advise NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and his deputies “on governance and game rules for NBA Europe, how to identify and recruit talent, how to create pathways for players into the new league and potentially from the new league to the NBA, and how to expand the continent’s already strong youth player development model.” He will “be a liaison between the NBA and the new European competition, NBA Europe and NBA teams, and FIBA” (THE ATHLETIC, 7/13).
SBJ’s Tom Friend is reporting that the Euro League is looking at its own schedule, read his full story here.