{"id":509668,"date":"2026-08-13T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509668"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:01:08","slug":"tottenham-owners-eye-bid-for-london-nba-europe-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tottenham-owners-eye-bid-for-london-nba-europe-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham owners eye bid for London NBA Europe franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lewis family<\/strong>, owners of Tottenham Hotspur<\/strong>, is exploring a bid for the future London franchise<\/strong> in NBA Europe<\/strong>, the new competition jointly created by the NBA and FIBA. If successful, it would mark the family’s first major investment outside soccer since acquiring Tottenham in 2001.<\/p>\n

The Lewis family controls 70.12% of ENIC<\/strong>, Tottenham’s parent company, which owns an 87.62% stake<\/strong> in the Premier League club. The family’s interests are now primarily represented by Vivienne Lewis<\/strong>, daughter of founder Joe Lewis, and her husband Nick Beucher<\/strong>, co-CEO of Tavistock Group.<\/p>\n

Joe Lewis stepped down as a person with significant control of Tottenham in 2022. In 2024 he pleaded guilty to insider trading in the United States, receiving a $5 million fine<\/strong>, before being granted a presidential pardon by Donald Trump<\/strong> the following year.<\/p>\n

For the NBA Europe project, the Lewis family has teamed up with the Checketts<\/strong> and Eccles<\/strong> families, both well-known sports investors. David Checketts previously served as general manager of the Utah Jazz<\/strong> and president of the New York Knicks<\/strong>, while the Eccles family owns stakes in Burnley<\/strong> and Espanyol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

NBA Europe<\/strong> is expected to launch in 2027<\/strong> with 12 permanent franchises<\/strong> and four additional clubs qualifying each season. London is one of the target markets alongside Manchester, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Milan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic<\/em><\/a>, a separate consortium led by technology billionaire Nikesh Arora<\/strong> is also preparing a bid worth more than $1 billion<\/strong> for the London franchise. The redeveloped Battersea Power Station<\/strong> site has emerged as a potential location for the team’s future arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lewis family has joined an investment group pursuing one of the league’s flagship teams, while a separate consortium led by tech billionaire Nikesh Arora is also preparing a bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":509667,"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":[24,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[134,135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europa","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/26135460-tottenham-sperone-caldo-club-logo-bianca-simbolo-premier-lega-calcio-astratto-design-vettore-illustrazione-con-blu-sfondo-gratuito-vettoriale.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509668","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509668"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509668"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509668"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}