{"id":37189,"date":"2025-03-27T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/nba-ready-to-move-to-next-stage-for-planned-league-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:14:36","slug":"nba-ready-to-move-to-next-stage-for-planned-league-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/nba-ready-to-move-to-next-stage-for-planned-league-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA ready to move to \u2018next stage\u2019 for planned league in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>League partnering with world governing body<\/li>\n<li>Discussions have been ongoing for some time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NBA may soon significantly expand its presence in Europe, partnering with basketball\u2019s world governing body, Fiba, on a new league that the sides have been discussing for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Specifics are few, with the initial target \u2013 for now \u2013 a 16-team league. But the announcement made on Thursday by NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Fiba secretary general Andreas Zagklis is a major step forward after a long process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/27\/nba-fiba-european-basketball-league\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League partnering with world governing body Discussions have been ongoing for some time The NBA may soon significantly expand its presence in Europe, partnering with basketball\u2019s world governing body, Fiba, on a new league that the sides have been discussing for many years. Specifics are few, with the initial target \u2013 for now \u2013 a &#8230; <a title=\"NBA ready to move to \u2018next stage\u2019 for planned league in Europe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/nba-ready-to-move-to-next-stage-for-planned-league-in-europe\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA ready to move to \u2018next stage\u2019 for planned league in Europe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}