Real Madrid President Petitions For Team to Be In the Eastern Conference of the NBA
“In basketball we play many insignificant games,” Perez said. “It’s better to play less, but better.
“We have explored the option of a European League and I have the dream of seeing Madrid in the NBA. I have asked us to be included in the Eastern Conference, but they say that’s far away.”
Another option, Perez says, would be to include Real Madrid in a new European Conference which would link with the NBA but he says that other European teams don’t quite share this particular ambition.
“The other teams in Spain don’t have as much interest,” Perez explained.
“But there are Greek and Turkish clubs with which we could have a European Conference. There are only two teams in the NBA with more followers than us on social networks.”
Real Madrid is one of the most valuable sporting franchises in the world and one of just a handful of European brands likely to command enough name value to potentially succeed in the United States.
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