{"id":479720,"date":"2026-01-19T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479720"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:03:31","slug":"nba-europe-and-barca-why-control-of-the-basketball-section-is-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-europe-and-barca-why-control-of-the-basketball-section-is-at-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Europe and Bar\u00e7a: why control of the basketball section is at stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1893\">Sunday\u2019s London meeting between the <strong data-start=\"1626\" data-end=\"1633\">NBA<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1647\">Bar\u00e7a<\/strong> highlighted the current gap: the league is courting the club, yet Bar\u00e7a remain cautious and stick with the <strong data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1769\">EuroLeague<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1773\" \/>Among those present were <strong data-start=\"1798\" data-end=\"1813\">Adam Silver<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"1832\">Mark Tatum<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"1852\">Pau Gasol<\/strong> acting as the link between both sides.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1895\" data-end=\"2135\">Money is the key issue, with an entry fee reportedly set between $500 million and $1 billion.<br data-start=\"1988\" data-end=\"1991\" \/>As a non-corporate member-owned club, <strong data-start=\"2029\" data-end=\"2045\">FC Barcelona<\/strong> would need a commercial subsidiary and to transfer exploitable rights into that entity.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2433\">The structure could bring capital and limit downside, but it also fuels the main fear: losing real control over the basketball operation.<br data-start=\"2274\" data-end=\"2277\" \/>With no external investor currently in play, Bar\u00e7a\u2019s stance buys time, while an EuroLeague exit clause would cost \u20ac10 million if they change course later.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1257\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mundodeportivo.com\/baloncesto\/20260119\/1002604237\/nba-riesgo-barca-pierda-control-seccion-basket.html\">Fonte<\/a>: <em data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1217\">Mundo Deportivo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining would require outside funding and a new corporate vehicle, raising concerns over decision-making control<\/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":[305,199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-479720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"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\/479720","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=479720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479720\/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=479720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479720"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479720"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479720"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}