{"id":799299,"date":"2026-07-13T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799299\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:02:11","slug":"nba-taps-karnisovas-as-consultant-liason-for-nba-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799299\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA taps Karni\u0161ovas as consultant, liason for NBA Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">The NBA has hired former NBAer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/06\/bulls-part-ways-with-evp-karnisovas-gm-eversley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/06\/bulls-part-ways-with-evp-karnisovas-gm-eversley\/\">Bulls EVP Art\u016bras Karni\u0161ovas<\/a> as its \u201cconsultant for building NBA Europe,\u201d according to sources cited by THE ATHLETIC. Sources noted that Karni\u0161ovas will advise NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and his deputies \u201con 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\u2019s already strong youth player development model.\u201d He will \u201cbe a liaison between the NBA and the new European competition, NBA Europe and NBA teams, and FIBA\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7441730\/2026\/07\/13\/adam-silver-nba-europe-arturas-karnisovas-consultant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE ATHLETIC, 7\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">SBJ\u2019s Tom Friend is reporting that the Euro League is looking at its own schedule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/13\/proposed-euroleague-nba-europe-merger-is-a-new-bog-topic-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/13\/proposed-euroleague-nba-europe-merger-is-a-new-bog-topic-this-week\/\">read his full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has hired former NBAer and Bulls EVP Art\u016bras Karni\u0161ovas as its \u201cconsultant for building NBA Europe,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-799299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}