Sister cities for NBA teams?

[Spens1]

In Spain the only team sport that matters is football. Then you have individuals sports, like F1, cyclism, Moto GP or tennis. Basically nationalism, Alonso, Contador, Lorenzo, Nadal. Only Spanish national basketball team is followed.
In France the same, national teams are followed, meanwhile sport is not.

WHAT THE H#LL SPORT IS CYCLISM!

Checked Wiktionary - the sport of hunting cyclops.

can confirm this sport is more popular in Australia than baseball

anyway if the nba wants to start a seperate comp in europe, fine but it shouldn't be:

1. an nba division
2. maybe involve existing clubs
3. DON'T HAVE STUPID NAMES FOR THE TEAMS (i mean London Sharks would have the english laughing themselves silly).

I'd go with

1. London
2. Paris
3. Barcelona
4. Madrid
5. Milan
6. Rome
7. Berlin
8. Munich/Frankfurt
9. Amsterdam
10. Brussels
11. Athens
12. Moscow
13. Istanbul
14. Stockholm/Copenhagen

then theirs other cities like Budapest, Bucharest, St Petersburg, Belgrade, Zagreb and the rest of eastern europe to consider. Not to mention the UK (plus ireland) and France could handle a second team (dublin, manchester, birmingham, glasgow, marseille and lyon could all be the second teams for each country respectively).

[Promezclan]

In Spain the only team sport that matters is football. Then you have individuals sports, like F1, cyclism, Moto GP or tennis. Basically nationalism, Alonso, Contador, Lorenzo, Nadal. Only Spanish national basketball team is followed.
In France the same, national teams are followed, meanwhile sport is not.

WHAT THE H#LL SPORT IS CYCLISM!

Checked Wiktionary - the sport of hunting cyclops.

can confirm this sport is more popular in Australia than baseball

anyway if the nba wants to start a seperate comp in europe, fine but it shouldn't be:

1. an nba division
2. maybe involve existing clubs
3. DON'T HAVE STUPID NAMES FOR THE TEAMS (i mean London Sharks would have the english laughing themselves silly).

I'd go with

1. London
2. Paris
3. Barcelona
4. Madrid
5. Milan
6. Rome
7. Berlin
8. Munich/Frankfurt
9. Amsterdam
10. Brussels
11. Athens
12. Moscow
13. Istanbul
14. Stockholm/Copenhagen

then theirs other cities like Budapest, Bucharest, St Petersburg, Belgrade, Zagreb and the rest of eastern europe to consider. Not to mention the UK (plus ireland) and France could handle a second team (dublin, manchester, birmingham, glasgow, marseille and lyon could all be the second teams for each country respectively).

For sure, get rid of Berlin, Munich/Frankfurt, Amsterdam,Brussels, and Stockholm/Copenhagen. Basketball is not remotely popular there, and they aren't huge cities like London. Even Belgrade makes more sense (but, Budapest, Bucharest, wtf?) And Milan and Rome are very borderline, while Athens is in a huge crisis right now.

[guille_4]

I don't think its feasible for the NBA to expand into Europe. It's better to think of expanding to Seattle then it is to London or any other European city. It's just too far away.

Europe is already obsessed with basketball. Look at countries like Spain, Greece, Serbia, Croatia where you can make the argument that basketball is more popular than soccer in those countries. (I'm Greek, so I can attest to that).

Lol, there's absolutely no way you can argue basketball is more popular than soccer in Spain.

[Spens1]

WHAT THE H#LL SPORT IS CYCLISM!

Checked Wiktionary - the sport of hunting cyclops.

can confirm this sport is more popular in Australia than baseball

anyway if the nba wants to start a seperate comp in europe, fine but it shouldn't be:

1. an nba division
2. maybe involve existing clubs
3. DON'T HAVE STUPID NAMES FOR THE TEAMS (i mean London Sharks would have the english laughing themselves silly).

I'd go with

1. London
2. Paris
3. Barcelona
4. Madrid
5. Milan
6. Rome
7. Berlin
8. Munich/Frankfurt
9. Amsterdam
10. Brussels
11. Athens
12. Moscow
13. Istanbul
14. Stockholm/Copenhagen

then theirs other cities like Budapest, Bucharest, St Petersburg, Belgrade, Zagreb and the rest of eastern europe to consider. Not to mention the UK (plus ireland) and France could handle a second team (dublin, manchester, birmingham, glasgow, marseille and lyon could all be the second teams for each country respectively).

For sure, get rid of Berlin, Munich/Frankfurt, Amsterdam,Brussels, and Stockholm/Copenhagen. Basketball is not remotely popular there, and they aren't huge cities like London. Even Belgrade makes more sense (but, Budapest, Bucharest, wtf?) And Milan and Rome are very borderline, while Athens is in a huge crisis right now.

well i just went for the rich countries basically (well except athens, poor greeks are broke) yeah Belgrade would probably make more sense instead of Stockholm. I was thinking 2 teams in Germany but in reality there probably only needs to be one. I know Basketball isn't huge in London but thats probably more cause the domestic league sucks badly, if they get in some good british players (i.e. BG) and field a competitive team, have a good community side to them then i'm sure it would do well (the city has 12 million people it will be right).

Also Milan seems to get good support in the euroleague at least.

[Klomp]

A 2.5-year old thread bump? Really?