La ‘bomb ‘released by Marca with his exclusive on the meetings of FIBA, NBA and Euroleague on a possible European conference sponsored by the NBA has had a huge repercussion. So much so that the NBA itself issued a statement in which it recognized the approaches with FIBA, in a relationship that is long and, above all, the meetings to try to find options to improve basketball in Europe:
“The NBA has a long relationship with FIBA to grow basketball around the world through initiatives such as Basketball Without Borders and Basketball Africa League (BAL). We have also played several preseason matches against Euroleague teams over the years. As part of our ongoing collaboration with both stakeholders, we were recently invited to participate in discussions about how we can work together to grow basketball in Europe. We look forward to participating in further discussions in the future. “