{"id":512131,"date":"2026-08-28T15:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=512131"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:28:41","slug":"nba-players-seek-share-of-nba-europe-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-players-seek-share-of-nba-europe-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA players seek share of NBA Europe revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA players believe they should receive a share of the revenue generated by <strong>NBA Europe<\/strong>, which is targeting an October 2027 launch. <strong>NBPA executive director David Kelly<\/strong> raised the issue as plans for the new competition continue to develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clearly being built on the backs of current NBA players and prior NBA players, on the whole cachet that they brought to this league,\u201d Kelly told <strong>Front Office Sports<\/strong>. \u201cTo start a rival league that they do not participate in, or participate in the economics of, we have a very serious problem with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current collective bargaining agreement gives players approximately 51% of basketball-related income, but the NBPA is not demanding the same percentage from NBA Europe. Kelly is instead seeking a good-faith payment, with governance, franchise fees and revenue sharing still among the project\u2019s unresolved issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBPA executive director David Kelly argues that the new competition is partly built on the value created by current and former players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":466983,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-512131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Nbpa-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512131","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=512131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512131"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=512131"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=512131"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=512131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}