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Has anyone heard something about this? I don't have nothing official yet.. a friend of mine heard the news, but i couldn't find a confirmation anywhere.
The rumor is Real Madrid will be in NBA starting with 2007, for 5 years

the rumor said Real Madrid's basketball team signed a 5 years contract with the NBA, and the games will be played 5 at home, 5 on the road, 5 at home, 5 on the road, and so on
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We are going to built a 90M euros Arena, and a NBA expert will come in a few days to direct the design. Pics: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...2&page=8&pp=20 (today the link to this forum does not work, I hope that tomorrow it will be arranged and you can see this renders).
Last summer the soccer team went to Chicago and LA in its SummerTour2005; the Madrid executives had met with Stern, Bull executives and Lakers executives. This summer (SummerTour2006) we visited Seattle and Salt Lake City, there we met NBAexecutives and Dave Checketts (it is said that maybe he is the key person in this project).

In this interview (http://www.as.com/articulo/futbol/De...daiftb_14/Tes/) Ramón Calderón, the president, said that in 2008 or 2009, the NBA is going to choose 4 european teams to compete in the East Conference and Real Madrid it is going to be one of them.

Three years ago, when it was started speaking on this project, it was said that the european teams would have to buy a franchise; I think that it costs 300M dollars, more or less, but for the european teams it would be cheaper and for Real Madrid, money is not a problem.
In that moment the most interesting cities for the NBA were Paris, Madrid and Athens. That year was when Real Madrid met Stern for the first time, in the exhibition game Spurs vs Grizzlies (Paris). The executive who met Stern was Ramon Calderon, "by chance" he is the current president of Real Madrid. Is it a coincidence?

In 2003 the idea did not seem real, but lately there have happened things that reinforce the idea of that is going to be done soon:
This summer the president has met important executives in Seattle, as the vice-president of Boeing... and I read that the NBA franchises have the duty to have private plane ¿¿??.
In 2008 Real Madrid Arena will be finished and fulfill NBA requirements.
Yesterday I read in the local press of Salt Lake City that Dave Checketts was in Real Madrid offices last week.

Today news. Dave Checketts is interviewed in the Spanish press.
He says that the NBA will come to Europe sooner or later.
He speaks about 4 countries: Spain, France, Italy and Germany.

http://www.as.com/articulo/baloncest...daibal_15/Tes/

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