NBA clubs to stage pre-season games in Europe

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — Even though National Basketball Association teams will play pre-season games in Europe for the third year in a row next October does not mean regular-season games are coming there any time soon.

NBA commissioner David Stern said Thursday that the league's latest set of European pre-season games - involving the New Orleans Hornets, Washington Wizards, Miami Heat and New Jersey Nets - will be staged in London, Berlin, Barcelona and Paris.

Stern said they do not herald regular-season games but Stern said new arenas like those in London and Berlin and the US dollar's fall compared to European currencies provide an economic base that might someday set the stage for regular-season NBA games in Europe.

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