{"id":440490,"date":"2025-05-03T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440490"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:43:53","slug":"dubai-bc-euroleague-license-close-and-emirates-as-new-naming-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dubai-bc-euroleague-license-close-and-emirates-as-new-naming-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai BC, EuroLeague license close \u2014 and Emirates as new naming sponsor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"2008\"><strong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1622\">Dubai BC<\/strong> is on the verge of a breakthrough moment: <strong data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"1694\">entry into the EuroLeague<\/strong> is all but confirmed, pending final signatures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodevotion.com\/news\/494394576390\/dubai-bc-licenza-in-eurolega-e-nuovo-naming-sponsor\">Eurodevotion talks about it these hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"2008\">Currently ranked third in the <strong data-start=\"1773\" data-end=\"1785\">ABA Liga<\/strong>, behind Buducnost and Partizan and ahead of Crvena Zvezda, the ambitious UAE-based club is aligned with the EuroLeague\u2019s strategic expansion into the Middle East \u2014 including the awarding of the <strong data-start=\"1980\" data-end=\"2007\">Final Four to Abu Dhabi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2010\" data-end=\"2364\">In addition to the license \u2014 reportedly <strong data-start=\"2050\" data-end=\"2064\">multi-year<\/strong> \u2014 a major sponsorship move is also in the works: <strong data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2126\">Emirates<\/strong> is said to be in <strong data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2215\">advanced negotiations to become the EuroLeague\u2019s new naming sponsor<\/strong>, replacing <strong data-start=\"2227\" data-end=\"2247\">Turkish Airlines<\/strong>, whose decade-long deal ends this June. While branding details remain under discussion, an agreement appears likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emirati club is close to securing a multi-year EuroLeague spot; Emirates reportedly in advanced talks to become the competition\u2019s new title sponsor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":405683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/GYGqBcwWAAAPo1n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440490"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440490"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440490"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}