{"id":472893,"date":"2025-12-05T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=472893"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:25:32","slug":"barca-commits-to-euroleague-but-keeps-door-open-for-nba-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/barca-commits-to-euroleague-but-keeps-door-open-for-nba-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar\u00e7a commits to EuroLeague but keeps door open for NBA Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1556\">President <strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1256\">Joan Laporta<\/strong> said that <strong data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1276\">Bar\u00e7a<\/strong> plans to sign the proposed 10-year <strong data-start=\"1312\" data-end=\"1326\">EuroLeague<\/strong> renewal, but only with \u201c<strong data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1374\">freedom of movement<\/strong>\u201d to allow a switch to <strong data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1411\">NBA Europe<\/strong> if that project becomes reality. The current license expires in June 2026, and as a founding member the club does not want to lose its rights.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1906\">Laporta revealed that the <strong data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1591\">NBA<\/strong> wants to set up a European division, with a franchise in every major city, including <strong data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1690\">Barcelona<\/strong>. The proposals would guarantee fixed revenue well above current levels, but in return the league would seek to manage the <strong data-start=\"1813\" data-end=\"1832\">Palau Blaugrana<\/strong> or even build it themselves, a sensitive issue for a 126-year-old club.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1908\" data-end=\"2214\">On the roster side, the president confirmed the signing of <strong data-start=\"1967\" data-end=\"1983\">Xavi Pascual<\/strong> and a three-year project, while stressing financial limits. No new additions are planned for now, but Laporta admitted that, in the event of a \u201cmajor setback,\u201d Bar\u00e7a would look for a way to make signings if absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1145\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1903310\/laporta-and-barca-opt-for-the-euroleague-while-waiting-for-the-nba\/\">Source: <em data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1088\">Eurohoops<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joan Laporta said that Bar\u00e7a plans to sign the proposed 10-year EuroLeague renewal, but only with \u201cfreedom of movement\u201d<\/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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-472893","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\/472893","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=472893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472893\/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=472893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472893"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=472893"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=472893"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=472893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}