{"id":453771,"date":"2025-07-31T22:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=453771"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:13:52","slug":"real-madrid-barcelona-asvel-and-fenerbahce-reportedly-in-consideration-for-nba-europe-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/real-madrid-barcelona-asvel-and-fenerbahce-reportedly-in-consideration-for-nba-europe-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid, Barcelona, ASVEL and Fenerbah\u00e7e Reportedly in Consideration for NBA Europe Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6527966\/2025\/07\/31\/adam-silver-nba-euroleague-real-madrid\/\"><em>The Athletic<\/em><\/a>, NBA commissioner Adam Silver and his top deputies met with Real Madrid executives in Paris to discuss the club&#8217;s potential involvement in a new NBA-backed European league. Real Madrid\u2019s participation would be a major milestone, given the club\u2019s stature, resources, and current &#8220;A&#8221; license in EuroLeague.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is part of a European tour involving discussions with potential investors and clubs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6527966\/2025\/07\/31\/adam-silver-nba-euroleague-real-madrid\/\">Sources on both sides<\/a> of the Atlantic with knowledge of the NBA\u2019s early talks are watching four existing EuroLeague franchises \u2014 Real Madrid, Barca Barcelona, ASVEL Basket of Villeurbanne, of which former NBA superstar Tony Parker is team president, and Fenerbah\u00e7e Istanbul \u2014 as potential defectors to Silver\u2019s league.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silver\u2019s team also met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, as the NBA aims to place a franchise in London. Talks were held with Galatasaray, Alba Berlin (which recently left EuroLeague), and four major private equity firms (CVC, RedBird, Bridgepoint, KKR).<\/p>\n<p>The plan envisions a 16-team league, mixing existing clubs with new franchises in major cities like Paris and London, possibly launching within 2\u20133 years. Meanwhile, EuroLeague CEO Paulius Motiej\u016bnas stressed his confidence in retaining key clubs, calling the NBA\u2019s plans \u201cexploratory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan envisions a 16-team league, mixing existing clubs with new franchises in major cities like Paris and London, possibly launching within 2\u20133 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":419112,"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":[82,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-453771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/12\/Adam-Silver.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453771","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453771"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=453771"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=453771"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=453771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}