{"id":491893,"date":"2026-04-08T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491893"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:40:13","slug":"nba-and-euroleague-officials-to-attend-fenerbahce-real-madrid-but-key-talks-remain-set-for-april-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-and-euroleague-officials-to-attend-fenerbahce-real-madrid-but-key-talks-remain-set-for-april-28\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA and EuroLeague officials to attend Fenerbahce-Real Madrid, but key talks remain set for April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2128\" data-end=\"2479\">The <strong data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2161\">Fenerbahce vs Real Madrid<\/strong> clash will also provide the backdrop for another step in the discussions over the future of European basketball. According to <strong data-start=\"2288\" data-end=\"2301\">Eurohoops<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2317\">Chus Bueno<\/strong>, EuroLeague\u2019s CEO, and <strong data-start=\"2341\" data-end=\"2363\">Giorgos Aivazoglou<\/strong>, NBA EME managing director, have been invited to attend the game in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2481\" data-end=\"2858\">The key point, however, is that <strong data-start=\"2513\" data-end=\"2558\">no formal meetings are expected in Turkey<\/strong>, despite reports suggesting otherwise. Eurohoops adds that the only formal meeting between all parties is still scheduled for <strong data-start=\"2685\" data-end=\"2697\">April 28<\/strong>, while talks are expected to intensify after the bidding process for potential <strong data-start=\"2777\" data-end=\"2791\">NBA Europe<\/strong> investors officially closed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2860\" data-end=\"3252\">The wider calendar also matters. A <strong data-start=\"2895\" data-end=\"2915\">EuroLeague Board<\/strong> meeting is scheduled for <strong data-start=\"2941\" data-end=\"2953\">April 14<\/strong>, with the 2026-27 competition format among the issues to be discussed, and the possibility of collaboration with the NBA remains one of the most important topics on the table. Meanwhile, the <strong data-start=\"3145\" data-end=\"3159\">NBA Europe<\/strong> project is still targeting an <strong data-start=\"3190\" data-end=\"3206\">October 2027<\/strong> launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eurohoops, EuroLeague CEO Chus Bueno and NBA EME managing director Giorgos Aivazoglou will be in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":463319,"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":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Nba-EuroLeague.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491893","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=491893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491893"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491893"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491893"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}