{"id":452907,"date":"2025-07-25T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452907"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:55:57","slug":"laporta-nba-europe-talks-are-quite-advanced-the-new-palau-could-meet-nba-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/laporta-nba-europe-talks-are-quite-advanced-the-new-palau-could-meet-nba-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Laporta: NBA Europe talks are quite advanced. The new Palau could meet NBA standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"446\"><strong data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"252\">FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta<\/strong> confirmed in an interview with <em data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"301\">Mundo Deportivo<\/em> that the discussions between the <strong data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"342\">NBA<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"358\">EuroLeague<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"372\">FIBA<\/strong> regarding a potential <strong data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"409\" data-is-only-node=\"\">NBA Europe<\/strong> initiative are \u201c<strong data-start=\"426\" data-end=\"444\">quite advanced<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"885\">Laporta emphasized that the NBA is aiming to establish a presence in Europe, and if that materializes, <strong data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"617\">facilities such as arenas and \u2018Palaus\u2019 must be taken seriously<\/strong>. \u201cWe are working on the new Palau project, with a draft expected in the second quarter of next year. We won\u2019t share ownership with anyone,\u201d he clarified. \u201cWe must consider the possibility of a competition shift. The new Palau could meet NBA standards \u2014 just in case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"887\" data-end=\"1176\">He further stated: \u201c<strong data-start=\"907\" data-end=\"935\">Talks are quite advanced<\/strong>. I can\u2019t reveal the final structure; there are several options. I know the NBA and EuroLeague are in contact, and the NBA is also speaking with FIBA. There is an agreement with the EuroLeague, and we are listening to what we\u2019re being told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1231\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barcelona president confirms progress in NBA-Europe discussions and links the project to the club\u2019s upcoming arena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":335595,"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":[34,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/FymWCCjXoAgos_-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452907","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=452907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452907"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452907"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452907"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}