Milan, 15 December 2025 – Olimpia Milano-Real Madrid, it’s if it became one NBA game? For now it’s simply the race Euroleague scheduled tomorrow Tuesday 16 December atAllianz Cloud of Milanbut that’s what could happen starting fromOctober 2027 if the timetable that has been talked about so much in recent days regarding it landing of the NBA in Europe was respected.
The project
From a simple to talk initial has become more and more one concrete possibilityso much so that we even start talking about start dates of the tournament and possible participating teams. Sort of transversal business between basketball and footballbecause we are talking about new franchises da creare ex-novo in Manchester and Paris starting from Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, but also to Milano where we always talk about more than one connection between Olimpia, Milan (with RedBird) and Inter (with Oaktree) to build the team of the future. The situation is anyway nebulabecause it is not yet clear whether it will be a sort of evolution own of Olympia itself who, moreover, will have his birthday in less than a month 90 years old from the foundation, or it may be one new creature untied.
Olimpia Milano fans
Petrucci’s enthusiasm
He has also confirmed this in recent days president of Federbasket, Gianni Petrucci who wanted to anticipate the times by giving ample reassurances on the feasibility of the project after having met the leaders of Fiba Europe who is defining the project with the Nna: “Nba Europe it’s a done deal. There are also football people interested in Milan and also in Rome they are competing. Everyone tells us they would like to copy football, because it involves everyone: men and women.”
The dispute with the Euroleague
The federal president sees it as a step forward that would also resolve the dispute with the Euroleague regarding the availability of players in the qualifying windows for the European Championships and the World Cup: “With this NBA Europe we will have the satisfaction of having the players in blue because the championship will be suspended”. There was also talk of the agreement that in any case the participating clubs will have to maintain their participation even in national championshipswith a European tournament with 16 teams (12 for license and 4 for sporting merit) although it is not yet clear how many matches each team would play.
Milan and Rome
Obviously the big question mark is what will happen to the Euroleague if he does not reach an agreement with this project or if this project will have the strength to impose itself even without the Euroleague teams: “A high level investment will be needed – continues Petrucci himself – but basketball is so global now it will be worth it. Rome and Milan are the only two cities included in the project. In Milan I have been aware for some time that things have been moving around certain names, but there is also concrete interest in Rome.”
Dal Forum all’Allianz Cloud
Returning to current events, however, Olimpia is preparing for home double against Real Madrid and Fenerbahce Istanbul which inaugurate the 4 months to play at the Allianz Cloud for leave the Forum as a competition field for the Olympics. The injury situation remains complex, but the fuel given by two wins in the series with Panathinaikos and Virtus Bologna it will certainly be an added value.
