The essential The NBA regular season meeting organized in Paris will oppose the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers on January 11th.
The NBA will organize a game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Accor Arena on January 11, renewing for the third time the experience of organizing a regular season meeting in Paris, the League announced on Wednesday. “This match (…) will strengthen the incredible momentum around basketball and the NBA in France and throughout the region”, rejoiced in a press release Mark Tatum, number 2 of the North League. American basketball.
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France has more NBA players than any other country outside North America, according to the League, including newcomers Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs), first draft pick in 2023, and Bilal Coulibaly (Wizards of Washington), drafted seventh. Tickets will go on sale at “a later date” which has not yet been disclosed. This is the third time in four years that Paris-Bercy has hosted a regular season game. The Chicago Bulls won over the Detroit Pistons last January (126-108), and Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Milwaukee Bucks won against the Charlotte Hornets in January 2020 (116-103).
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Since the 1990s, the NBA has organized regular season games outside the United States and Canada, in what it calls “Global Games”, first in Japan and Mexico, then in Europe, in addition to pre-season matches or promotional tours set up in the 1980s. If the Nets have already had the opportunity to play once in Paris, during a pre-season match in 2008, it is a first on French soil for the Cavaliers, who have in their ranks Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and Donovan Mitchell, an exceptional back who scored 71 points alone against the Chicago Bulls in January, the best performance since Kobe Bryant in 2006. Seven months after the meeting, Bercy will also host the final phase of the men’s and women’s Olympic basketball tournaments.
2023-07-19 16:25:41
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