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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/ian_thomsen/02/13/international.expansion/index.html
If you were an NBA fan in the UK or Ireland it's hard not to laugh.
NBA opens office in London. NBA has preseason game in London. That's a good start.
They then let the largest sport's broadcaster in the UK ditch it's basketball altogether. Now, all we get is one night a week, an hour long highlight package of the game of the week, on the satellite version of the least watched terrestrial channel.
This is far too premature. The game is absolutely huge in mainland Europe, but Britain's own basketball league averages about 1000 supporters a week to it's games. The London franchise plays in a tiny arena with a capacity of 300. Now they might be moving them to a 20, 000 arena and expect decent attendances 41 times a year?
Rome, Madrid, Paris, or eastern Europe would accomodate a team, maybe, in the next 2 or 3 decades. Unless they do something drastic, London shouldn't really be considered IMO.
If you were an NBA fan in the UK or Ireland it's hard not to laugh.
NBA opens office in London. NBA has preseason game in London. That's a good start.
They then let the largest sport's broadcaster in the UK ditch it's basketball altogether. Now, all we get is one night a week, an hour long highlight package of the game of the week, on the satellite version of the least watched terrestrial channel.
This is far too premature. The game is absolutely huge in mainland Europe, but Britain's own basketball league averages about 1000 supporters a week to it's games. The London franchise plays in a tiny arena with a capacity of 300. Now they might be moving them to a 20, 000 arena and expect decent attendances 41 times a year?
Rome, Madrid, Paris, or eastern Europe would accomodate a team, maybe, in the next 2 or 3 decades. Unless they do something drastic, London shouldn't really be considered IMO.