Basketball

North American basketball league the NBA has scheduled its latest series of games in China, with the Dallas Mavericks and Philadelphia 76ers to take to the country for the first time.

Joe Tsai, co-founder of Chinese internet company Alibaba, has completed the acquisition of a 49 per cent stake in the Brooklyn Nets in a deal that reportedly grants the team a record valuation for an NBA basketball franchise.

Euroleague Basketball has outlined expansion plans for its top-tier EuroLeague competition, as the owner of leading Greek team Panathinaikos said the club will leave for the Basketball Champions League amid clashes with Euroleague administration.

The University of Kansas and North Carolina State University have become embroiled in the college sport inducement scandal after federal prosecutors in New York elected to expand the case, which involves German sportswear manufacturer Adidas.

Robert Pera has confirmed he is to maintain his controlling interest in NBA basketball franchise the Memphis Grizzlies through a ‘buy-sell’ process involving limited partners Steve Kaplan and Daniel Straus.

The founders of the Big3, a three-on-three, half-court basketball league that launched last year in the US, have filed a $1.2bn (€964.6m) lawsuit against a Qatari group it claims failed to deliver on promised investment and tried to usurp them as controllers of the enterprise.

Athens has been awarded hosting rights to the 2018 Final Four of the Basketball Champions League.

Under the leadership of Yao Ming and his long-time friend and ally Ma Guoli, the Chinese Basketball Association is undergoing arguably the most ambitious reforms in Chinese sport. Ahead of the second edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit in Beijing on 25th and 26th July this year, Leaders editor-at-large James Emmett visited the CBA League offices to find out how Yao and Ma are doing it.

The European division of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has unanimously rejected the latest proposal from Euroleague Basketball over the calendar model for the sport on the continent.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver tells SportBusiness International why micro-transactions are more than a revenue stream – and why the concept will catch on

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has confirmed that the Hungarian city of Sopron will host the 2018 edition of the EuroLeague Women Final Four.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has announced that Bucharest will host this year’s 3x3 Europe Cup, marking the third time that the Romanian capital will have staged the national team tournament.

Frank Dunne reports on how the NBA tries to maximise its international media-rights income by approaching each market with complete flexibility.

German sportswear company Puma has said it plans to return to the basketball market as part of efforts to increase its presence in the US and China in competition with rivals Adidas and Nike.

Andrew Demetriou, former chief executive of the AFL Aussie rules football league, has been appointed co-chair of the Australian National Basketball League’s advisory board.