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Adam Silver met with the media ahead of the NBA Paris Games 2025. As expected, he got questions about the NBA's interest in expanding to Europe. Silver confirmed the NBA has interest in creating a European league, but that it wouldn't be as an expansion of the NBA itself.

"We might eventually have NBA franchises here, but it's not our priority right now," Silver said. "That's not something we're discussing at the moment. We'd need supersonic jets to make it work."

Silver went on to say the NBA could have a presence in Europe similar to the Basketball Africa League. The NBA commissioner also said this is something the NBA is taking their time with, to make sure they do things in the correct ways.

"We're moving slowly to ensure that anything we do is accepted by the existing basketball ecosystem," Silver said. "We've been having direct conversations with stakeholders this week. We want to respect the traditions of European sports, no matter what direction we take.

"We're talking about a competition – probably an independent league separate from the NBA. It would be a European league. What form it takes is still being explored. We're speaking with various groups to understand what opportunities exist."

Via BasketNews

this is gonna fail too

How about you fix your flagship league first before you go ahead and create a watered down product overseas.

There would be little market for an NBA Europe league. Just ask the NFL

There already are established leagues there, so I'm not sure they realize how difficult it would be to jump into that market.

Snakebites wrote:There already are established leagues there, so I'm not sure they realize how difficult it would be to jump into that market.

Everyone had a watch before apple made a watch. That hasn't stopped millions of people from spending $400 on the ugliest watch on the planet.

Bentley1225 wrote:There would be little market for an NBA Europe league. Just ask the NFL

They don't know football in Europe, but they love basketball.

TheCage4 wrote:How about you fix your flagship league first before you go ahead and create a watered down product overseas.

Good idea!

NBA4Lyfe wrote:this is gonna fail too

Probably not. The NBA has the money and resources to put together a better product, and more importantly, offer larger contracts to the players. But I hope it fails, or never gets started. It feels heavy handed and monopolistic.

I think the most like scenario for this to happen would be for the NBA to buy into the already established leagues. Why compete when you can just take the reigns? EuroLeague becomes NBAE.

Snakebites wrote:There already are established leagues there, so I'm not sure they realize how difficult it would be to jump into that market.

Those established leagues do not have NBA money..It would be smart for the NBA to try and buy an established league instead of creating a new one.

NBA4Lyfe wrote:this is gonna fail too

says the guy whose never even come close to running a business at the NBA level lol

Bentley1225 wrote:There would be little market for an NBA Europe league. Just ask the NFL

football is purely an american sport. Basketball is not. it has more global appeal

beefman wrote:

Bentley1225 wrote:There would be little market for an NBA Europe league. Just ask the NFL

football is purely an american sport. Basketball is not. it has more global appeal

Lol, let me introduce you to the Canadian Football league with 9 teams and U Sports has 27 University programs playing in Canada. NFL Europe never did sustain itself even when there was 0 competition in the market.

beefman wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:this is gonna fail too

says the guy whose never even come close to running a business at the NBA level lol

That's besides the point

Stu Jackson should have been named the commissioner not adumb silver.

Supersonic jets? No you just need to get creative with scheduling and probably give teams an extra day for travel