{"id":181606,"date":"2025-09-25T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181606\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:19:07","slug":"cuban-says-nba-should-look-to-create-its-own-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181606\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban says NBA should look to create its own World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban said the NBA \u201cshould create our own World Cup.\u201d Cuban, appearing on \u201cNetwork with Rich Kleiman,\u201d said a \u201cWorld cup every two years, that\u2019s the dominant competition in the basketball world, would be far more valuable\u201d than the NBA trying to create its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/06\/adam-silver-nba-europe-still-possibly-two-three-years-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/06\/adam-silver-nba-europe-still-possibly-two-three-years-away\/\">NBA Europe league<\/a>. Cuban: \u201cIt\u2019s riskier to try to build your own league in Europe as opposed to trying to build a super event.\u201d Cuban said any time he brought the World Cup idea up to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver or late former Commissioner David Stern, \u201cthey said, \u2018Well, our deal with FIBA doesn\u2019t preclude it.\u2019\u201d But then he noted they would \u201crenew their deal with FIBA without talking to the owners about it\u201d (\u201cNetwork with Rich Kleiman,\u201d 9\/25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban said the NBA \u201cshould create our own World Cup.\u201d Cuban, appearing on \u201cNetwork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,99],"class_list":["post-181606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}