According to The Athletic, the NBA is getting closer to agreements with several big European football clubs. Mark Tatum met them in Copenhagen, at the general assembly of the European Football Clubs. Paris and Milan currently have no basketball team at the top level.
The format under study: 16 teams, 12 permanent members, four places won on the court. The markets named are Paris, Lyon, London, Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich, Berlin, Milan, Rome, Athens and Istanbul.
Juan Carlos Sánchez, head of Real Madrid’s basketball section, sounded enthusiastic on Real Madrid TV: “If the NBA comes, the first ring must go to Real Madrid.”
Twelve teams that don’t go down. In the second provincial division (Belgium’s Saturday-night amateur leagues), the table gets looked at on Monday, and anyone can go down, even the ones with a new club bar. I counted the teams on my sheet. Sixteen fits. Two clubs with no team at the top level yet, that fits in no column. A team with no players, I don’t know who signs at the bottom. I’m not against it. I’m asking who’s captain. Noted: four places on the court, twelve at the table.
The NBA has sent a proposal to the Euroleague, whose shareholder clubs meet in Italy in early October.
It’s true, we checked: Basket USA.
