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Jesús Sánchez
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European basketball is about to change as we know it. Because in the next few hours the NBA You can go from words to the facts. It meets in New York The Board of Governors, the governing body of the American professional basketball competition with the commissioner Adam Silver at the head. On the table, the possible landing in Europe with the creation of a great competition protected by NBA and FIBA. The EuroleagueMeanwhile, it is expectation with the contract that grants the licenses to be signed in many cases. Its great clubs, OlympiacosREal Madrid, Barça. Fenerbahçe, Pao, Bayernamong others, they are studying the possibility of aligning with the new competition.
“We are analyzing carefully If there is the opportunity to professionalize basketball to another levell, to create a greater commercial opportunity, “Silver said in January. And there is the key to everything: a business opportunity that the NBA has observed that it can develop in Europe after a study throughout the years in which the Euroleague It is not very well stopped. The NBA relies on FIBA, which also sees the opportunity to sponsor again, together with the American giant, a great European club competition, something that does not happen from the split of the split Euroleague in 1999.
We are analyzing carefully if there is the opportunity to professionalize basketball to another level to create a greater commercial opportunity
Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner
The NBA Considers that basketball is not sufficiently exploited in Europe, that most clubs that participate in basketball have great economic losses and that there are huge capitals, such as Paris, Moscow and Londonwhere the business can be fantastic. Because the NBA moves mainly for money. “We believe that with the markets, if the appropriate incentives are created, a significant additional investment can be achieved. And, ultimately, that is the way to grow the game at all levels,” said Silver. It can be an opportunity for the back to the foreground of the CSKA.
500 million euros the franchise
Although everything is speculation, there is talk of the possibility of having to disburse 500 million euros To get a franchise that guarantees participation in the new tournament with 16 teams. Obviously, the ‘offer’ is only the scope of the great soccer clubs with basketball section, such as the Madridhe Bayern, or the Barçacolossious of the continental basket, such as the Olympiakos, he PANATHINAIKOS or the Fenerbahçeand other entities endorsed by Qatar money, for example the PSG, which is considering the possibility of accessing this tournament, or the team that is being formed in Dubai.
Silver You can announce the steps to follow in the next few hours. The tournament would never start before 2026 and FIBA wants some clubs that are part of their competitions and belong to large European cities. The EuroleagueMeanwhile, he hopes, although he could become the Suproliga of 2000 if the escape of its great banners is confirmed. The decision to play the Euroleague final in Dubai did not help. In the NBA It was interpreted as an escape forward in search of ‘simple’ money and with a strong toll: uprooting among fans. European basketball will resolve its great basketball title in Asia. It was a devastating message. Madrid was one of the clubs that opposed that F4 in Emirates. Barça, which in business tune in with its great sports rival, can follow its steps if the financial conditions for the great jump are given. NBA landing It is a fact about to consummate. The plan is drawn.
