Covid-19 obliges, meetings abroad, whether in preseason or during the regular season, are at a standstill. So far, the NBA hasn’t really communicated on overseas tours, but it is very, very cautious. The proof, the G-League team, created in Mexico, will play all its matches in the United States for its first season.
A caution which does not prevent franchises from thinking about what to do next, and in particular the start of the 2022 school year. Marc Stein, the Warriors are planning to go to Japan, the country of their jersey sponsor Rakuten. Executives are currently working on the program with a visit to Tokyo. Two years ago the Raptors and Rockets played two games in Japan at Saitama and it was a preseason first. As for Stephen Curry, he had organized camps and a tour in Tokyo that same year.
As for Dallas, we are impatient to go to Spain to challenge Real Madrid, the former club of Luka Doncic. ” As soon as the NBA gives us the chance »Announces Mark Cuban, who also plans to play a match in Slovenia, on the grounds of Doncic.
For China, relations with the NBA have calmed down after the clash sparked by Daryl Morey’s tweet, but it is still too early to know if the NBA and NBA franchises are ready to return to Beijing after the diplomatic incident. of 2019.
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