{"id":494369,"date":"2026-04-26T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494369"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:14:54","slug":"nba-euroleague-meeting-marca-reveals-key-topic-avoiding-a-split-in-european-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-euroleague-meeting-marca-reveals-key-topic-avoiding-a-split-in-european-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA-EuroLeague meeting, MARCA reveals key topic: avoiding a split in European basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2444\" data-end=\"2783\">The future of <strong data-start=\"2473\" data-end=\"2496\">European basketball<\/strong> remains under the spotlight as <strong data-start=\"2528\" data-end=\"2556\">FIBA, NBA and EuroLeague<\/strong> continue their discussions. According to an extensive report published by <strong data-start=\"2631\" data-end=\"2640\">MARCA<\/strong>, FIBA headquarters will host a meeting on Tuesday, April 28, with NBA and EuroLeague set to discuss the possible arrival of the NBA in Europe.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2785\" data-end=\"3097\">The main focus of the discussion is expected to be the need to avoid a split in the sport, a scenario that would echo what happened during the 2000-01 season. The report says <strong data-start=\"2960\" data-end=\"2974\">Chus Bueno<\/strong>, EuroLeague CEO, and <strong data-start=\"2996\" data-end=\"3017\">George Aivazoglou<\/strong>, NBA managing director for Europe and the Middle East, will attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3099\" data-end=\"3514\">MARCA also reports that 10 of EuroLeague\u2019s 13 shareholder clubs have signed the new agreement, while <strong data-start=\"3200\" data-end=\"3244\">Real Madrid, Fenerbahce and Villeurbanne<\/strong> have not. The article also mentions clubs interested in obtaining a franchise, including <strong data-start=\"3334\" data-end=\"3370\">PAOK, Valencia, Hapoel and Dubai<\/strong>, while the NBA is said to be waiting on <strong data-start=\"3411\" data-end=\"3428\">Real Madrid\u2019s<\/strong> position. No clubs will attend the meeting, only officials from the governing bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting between NBA and EuroLeague is scheduled for Tuesday, April 28, at FIBA headquarters to discuss the future of European basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":437034,"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-494369","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\/04\/EuroLeague-NBA.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494369","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=494369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494369"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494369"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494369"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}