{"id":243090,"date":"2021-10-22T18:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=243090"},"modified":"2021-10-22T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:05:12","slug":"nba-statement-on-nba-division-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-statement-on-nba-division-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA statement on &#8216;NBA European Division&#8217; rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA, through spokesman Mike Bass, released a press release regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/baloncesto\/euroliga\/2021\/10\/21\/6171a37ae2704e0bbe8b456d.html\">the Marca article<\/a> <a href=\"\/?p=242923\">about plans to create an NBA division<\/a> in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NBA has a long-standing relationship with FIBA to grow basketball around the world through initiatives like Basketball Without Borders and the Basketball Africa League (BAL).\u00a0 We have also played a number of preseason games against\u00a0EuroLeague\u00a0teams over the years.\u00a0 As part of our ongoing collaboration with both stakeholders, we recently were invited\u00a0to engage in discussions about how we can work together to grow basketball in Europe.\u00a0 We look forward\u00a0to participating in subsequent conversations moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statement from NBA spokesman Mike Bass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":224573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[915,2195,940],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-243090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-euroleague","tag-fiba","tag-nba","typology-comunicato"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NBA statement on &#039;NBA European Division&#039; 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