{"id":496906,"date":"2026-05-15T08:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496906"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:18:46","slug":"gerry-cardinale-the-euroleague-is-unsustainable-soccer-clubs-should-collaborate-with-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/gerry-cardinale-the-euroleague-is-unsustainable-soccer-clubs-should-collaborate-with-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Cardinale: The EuroLeague is unsustainable. Soccer clubs should collaborate with the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Cardinale, the head of AC Milan, recently gave an important and highly anticipated interview to *<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Serie-A\/Milan\/15-05-2026\/gerry-cardinale-intervista-milan.shtml?refresh_ce\">La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>* during this turbulent period for the Rossoneri. But the RedBird CEO also spoke about NBA Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NBA is probably the only truly international sport that originated in the United States. And as we\u2019ve seen, the days of the Dream Team with Michael Jordan, Magic, and Larry Bird are long gone. You saw it at the Olympics, and you\u2019ve also seen it in the fact that many of the most recent NBA MVPs have come from Europe. So Europe has truly become a powerhouse when it comes to basketball, and there\u2019s a huge opportunity for collaboration between America and Europe, which is music to my ears.<\/p>\n<p>But even here, I think about it in terms of: \u201cHow does this help AC Milan?\u201d The EuroLeague has been around for 26 years, and most of the teams aren\u2019t profitable. It\u2019s not sustainable. So I think it\u2019s up to European soccer clubs to collaborate with the NBA and bring NBA basketball to Europe. And that\u2019s what I\u2019ll try to do in Milan. The goal is to continue elevating the Milan brand, offer opportunities to the fanbase, and continue improving our financial profile. So it\u2019s all part of an ecosystem where everyone should benefit from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Gerry Cardinale has long had an agreement in place with Pallacanestro Varese in the event that the NBA Europe project moves forward. Olimpia Milano, on the other hand, is in ongoing discussions with Oaktree, the fund that owns Inter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Cardinale, the head of AC Milan, recently gave an important and highly anticipated interview to *La Gazzetta dello Sport*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":453892,"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":[199,399,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-496906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/cardinale.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496906","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=496906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496906"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496906"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496906"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}