{"id":485416,"date":"2026-02-25T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485416"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:41:37","slug":"bcl-set-to-award-two-direct-tickets-to-nba-fibas-new-european-league-starting-in-2027-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bcl-set-to-award-two-direct-tickets-to-nba-fibas-new-european-league-starting-in-2027-28\/","title":{"rendered":"BCL set to award two direct tickets to NBA-FIBA\u2019s new European league starting in 2027-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1608\" data-end=\"1930\">The <strong data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1643\">Basketball Champions League<\/strong> is expected to become a key pathway into the NBA- and FIBA-backed project widely referred to as \u201cNBA Europe.\u201d According to Eurohoops, the <strong data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1826\">two finalists of the 2027 BCL Final Four<\/strong> would earn direct entry into the league\u2019s first season (2027-28).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"2172\">The planned format, per the same report, is built around a <strong data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"2002\">16-team<\/strong> setup featuring <strong data-start=\"2019\" data-end=\"2046\">12 permanent franchises<\/strong> in major markets and <strong data-start=\"2068\" data-end=\"2102\">four annually available places<\/strong> awarded through sporting merit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2174\" data-end=\"2490\">Beyond the BCL finalists, the remaining two open slots would be decided via end-of-season qualification tournaments in late June 2027. A working target of an <strong data-start=\"2332\" data-end=\"2348\">October 2027<\/strong> launch has also been cited in broader NBA-FIBA coverage and official communications around the project.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"919\" data-end=\"1215\"><em data-start=\"1217\" data-end=\"1235\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/nba-news\/1936408\/basketball-champions-league-tickets-to-nba-europe-nba-fiba\/\">Eurohoops<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurohoops reports the 2027 Basketball Champions League Final Four finalists will claim two of the four open spots in the inaugural season of the new 16-team competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":449176,"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":[195,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/egqbmq2eolidqwatp3th.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485416","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=485416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485416"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485416"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485416"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}