David Rivers won the Euroleague in 1997 with Olympiakos, but also the French championship two years earlier with Olympique d’Antibes after having been Magic Johnson’s understudy at the Los Angeles Lakers. The opportunity was great for Nice Morning to ask him his opinion on the future NBA Europe.
“I have no doubt that NBA Europe will help develop basketball on European soil in a very important way,” he believes. “I think, knowing the NBA, the way they do business, that at the end of the day, they will engage the Euroleague in the process, just like FIBA, and try to unify the basketball map. 100%, it will happen. They will play Nikola Jokic at home, Victor Wenbanyama in Paris, all those things…”
