NBA commissioner Adam Silver has revealed that the NBA Europe project is still at least couple of years away from launching.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver revealed the potential launch of the NBA Europe project is still at least a few years away on Friday during an NBA Cares event in Oklahoma City.
Silver reportedly noted that the timeline for NBA Europe is "measured in years, not months," and pointed to the 2028 L.A. Olympics — or somewhere around that period — as a potential target window for the league’s debut.
"We’re so early in the process [that] it’s a little hard to put a specific timeline on it now," Silver said via the Sports Business Journal. "So, we’re at least a couple years away from launching. It would be an enormous undertaking."
The current blueprint includes 12 permanent teams based in major European markets, along with four additional clubs qualifying annually. This plan is expected to be discussed further at the NBA’s next Board of Governors meeting in July in Las Vegas.
"While we want to move forward at a deliberate pace, we also want to make sure that we’re consulting all the appropriate stakeholders, meeting the existing EuroLeague, its teams, European players, media companies, marketing partners. So, there’s a lot of work to be done."
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