{"id":490699,"date":"2026-03-31T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=490699"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:09:20","slug":"metropolitans-92-enter-nba-europe-race-with-psg-also-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/metropolitans-92-enter-nba-europe-race-with-psg-also-in-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitans 92 enter NBA Europe race with PSG also in the picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"2142\"><strong data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"1800\">Metropolitans 92<\/strong> have officially joined the race for a future <strong data-start=\"1846\" data-end=\"1860\">NBA Europe<\/strong> franchise, creating a two-track Paris scenario alongside <strong data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"1941\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong>. According to reports from <em data-start=\"1969\" data-end=\"1980\">Eurohoops<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1985\" data-end=\"1995\">L\u2019Equipe<\/em>, the French club is moving forward with its own separate bid backed by investors from <strong data-start=\"2082\" data-end=\"2103\">EuroStep Ventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2481\">Among the notable backers is <strong data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2186\">Ja Morant<\/strong>, who is involved through his investment company <strong data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2246\">Catch12<\/strong>. Metropolitans president <strong data-start=\"2272\" data-end=\"2285\">Luc Dayan<\/strong> told <em data-start=\"2291\" data-end=\"2301\">L\u2019Equipe<\/em> that the group believes it has the financial strength needed to support an ambitious project ahead of the league\u2019s projected <strong data-start=\"2427\" data-end=\"2435\">2027<\/strong> launch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2483\" data-end=\"2813\">The broader landscape is still shifting, however. Additional reporting suggests that the <strong data-start=\"2572\" data-end=\"2579\">NBA<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2584\" data-end=\"2598\">EuroLeague<\/strong> are expected to resume discussions soon over a potential joint project, a development that could significantly reshape the structure and scale of top-level European basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French club has officially submitted its bid for a future NBA Europe franchise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429493,"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":[237,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-490699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Ja-Morant.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490699","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=490699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490699"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=490699"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=490699"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=490699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}