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59 sats \ 8 replies \ @Carresan 28 Mar \ on: Pre-Pod Meeting: Episode 25 Stacker_Sports

Any thoughts about NBA expanding to Europe?

https://www.nba.com/news/commissioner-adam-silver-discusses-potential-european-league-all-star-format-following-board-of-governors-meeting

35 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar

I can't believe I forgot about that. Yes, that's a big deal.

48 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 28 Mar

First I heard of it. That's interesting because a couple episodes ago you mentioned that potential Saudi league. I wonder if this is a response to that.

77 sats \ 2 replies \ @Carresan 28 Mar

Some journalist were citing last night Adam Silver and talking about number of teams (16) , considering what to do to with the game length (40 vs 48) and so on. Some of them were even mentioning already some names..

55 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar

The brief thing I had heard included holding places in the league for some of the more popular existing Euro teams.

What I find exiting is that once this league is established the NBA can have it's version of the Super Bowl, which was original a match between the best teams from two different leagues.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan 28 Mar

Yes, I would think that most of the teams participating in the Euroleague would join this venture. I am sure that some of the owners( such as Real Madrid, Barça, Olympiakos, Panathinaikos) would join without hesitation...

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar

Probably not unrelated, but it might just be different groups of billionaires recognizing the same opportunities.

I'm also reminded that we were going to talk about how to fix tanking. I do know the answer, btw.

25 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 28 Mar

Ok. We can add that. We have a lot of topics but nothing that should take a ton of time.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar

It's also an evergreen topic. No need to jam it in.