Foreign NBA Teams?

Could the Bulls and other NBA teams soon be traveling overseas to play regular season games?  ESPN.com recently published an article forecasting where the NBA may expand to next.  Several cities outside of the United Sates were pegged as potential destinations for an NBA team, including London, Berlin, Athens, Madrid, Moscow, Mexico City, Paris and Rome.  As far as U.S. cities go, recently deserted Seattle received the most votes, with Las Vegas, Kansas City, Anaheim, Newark and St. Louis also being named as options.  The NBA currently has 30 teams, with the most recent city to get a team being Oklahoma City.

Thought it would be hard to imagine Derrick Rose and Luol Deng flying to Berlin to play a game in the middle of the week, this is a possibility that cannot be ruled out.  The NBA knows that the game of basketball is popular outside the United States, and the league seems to be running out of viable domestic NBA cities.  The logistics of travel and scheduling are certainly questionable, but those aren’t insurmountable hurdles.  It should be interesting to see if the NBA becomes more agreeable to giving a team to a European city if one of their prime stars leaves for a Euro club in the next few years.

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