The CEO of Euroleague states that the plans of the NBA to form a new European alloy would create confusion “
Adam Silver continued to lift him. Not reproduced. Every time Discussion on NBA expansion He approached while the silver spoke to the media of Las Vegas during the summer league, Silver made the conversation towards the NBA with his eyes on Europe and a new league there. He and the owners see an opportunity: they are better at making money with the basketball activity compared to the current European Euroleague system. The NBA is exploring the idea of jumping with both feet through the Atlantic, forming a Super League with some existing teams and creating some new ones (probably linked to football plants on the continent).
“We would be an independent league, what we are thinking of operating in Europe, but the fact that we would create new basketball teams in Europe is related [to NBA expansion]Silver said. “It is separated but linked to this notion on the construction of further championship organizations.”
This would be direct competition for the existing Eurolega e His CEO, Papius Motiejunas, spoke with The Athletic Mike VorkunovBy saying that a new league would create more confusion than anything else.
“[The NBA has] A really strong image. They can help with TV offers. They can help with sponsorship. We can grow the cake if we go to work together. This is always the same message … but we have a great fan base. We have 25 years of history. This is what we told them. Why not sit down and see how we go to make decisions together, rather than simply create a new league and for them start again? …
“This new league would create confusion. It would create a division and in simple terms, go to the sponsor and say:” I’m now so new, you know, NBA League “. And then let’s go,” Well, we are Euroleague “.
The Euroleague is set up differently fromFor example, Soccer’s Champions League, in which teams must earn the right to play every year. There are 11 “A-License” clubs who are owners of parts and managers of the Euroleague and whose teams are automatically in the tournament every year. Those teams include Powerhouses Barcelona, CSKA Moscow, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos Piraeus and Real Madrid.
The NBA is a couple of years from the start of a league on the continent, but its wide idea is to capture a handful of those licensed licensing clubs and form a couple of new-places such as Manchester, England, as well as having the opportunity to make some teams to make the way in the competition. The NBA, with reason, believes that its marketing arm and the power of the brand can make this League earn that the existing Euroleague system leaves on the table.
The NBA and the Euroleague who work together are not totally out of the question, but the NBA is working closely with the Fiba International Government Body, which has a history of tension with the existing Eurolega.
Silver and the NBA will not slow down their European plans – once again, there is a reason why Silver continued to lift it while talking about the current NBA owners who pump the brakes to expansion in the United States. It seems that there is a true taste for a European League of the NBA owners, who have long understood that the greatest growth in the association and their franchise values came from international growth.
If this means competing with the Euroleague, the owners of the NBA will not move away from it.