{"id":479952,"date":"2026-01-20T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479952"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:05:36","slug":"nba-europe-manchester-still-considered-city-and-united-unlikely-to-be-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-europe-manchester-still-considered-city-and-united-unlikely-to-be-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Europe: Manchester still considered, City and United unlikely to be involved"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NBA Europe continues its search for agreements with clubs from major European markets with strong global recognition in football. Manchester is undoubtedly a key city for the new project backed by the league overseen by Adam Silver, who would welcome the presence of a franchise in Manchester with the support of either City or United.<\/p>\n

According to Frank Dallers of City AM<\/em><\/a>, Manchester could still become part of the NBA Europe project, albeit without the involvement of Manchester City or Manchester United.<\/p>\n

Ben Pierson, chairman of Manchester\u2019s current Super League Basketball team, told City AM<\/em>: \u201cThe Sherwood group have been in discussions with JPMorgan and the NBA since the very beginning of the process. We have the financial resources to submit a bid independently, if it makes sense. But we have also been approached by several groups who understand that we are the operating company in the city. If you are a basketball team branded in blue, you lose half the city because Manchester United fans won\u2019t attend your games.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to BBC Sport<\/em><\/a>, neither Manchester City nor Manchester United have shown interest in joining the NBA Europe project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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City and United not interested, but the city could still join the project through its basketball representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-479952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/12\/Adam-Silver.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479952","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479952\/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=479952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479952"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479952"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479952"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}