The Nets and Cavaliers will compete in the NBA’s Paris Game in 2024, the league announced today in a press release.
The game will take place at the Accor Arena in Paris, France on January 11, 2024.
After having previously only held exhibition games in Paris, the NBA played its first regular season game at Accor Arena in January 2020, when the Bucks faced the Hornets. Following a three-year layoff due to COVID-19, the league returned to Paris this past January, with the Bulls facing the Pistons.
The contest between the Nets and Cavaliers will be the NBA’s third regular season game in France. It’ll also be the first one that features two playoff teams from the prior season.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing the live NBA experience back to Paris with two exciting teams in the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers,” NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum said in a statement. “This game has become a destination for our passionate fans across Europe and will build on the incredible momentum around basketball and the NBA in France and throughout the region.”
The NBA’s popularity in France figures to be on the rise this season due to the stateside arrival of No. 1 overall pick and generational prospect Victor Wembanyama. A previous report indicated that there’s hope that the Frenchman’s Spurs will get a chance to participate in the Paris game in 2025.
The league announced in May that the Mavericks and Timberwolves will take part in a pair of October preseason games in Abu Dhabi, but has yet to confirm any other regular season games that will take place outside of the U.S. or Canada in 2023/24. Last season, in addition to the Paris contest, the Spurs hosted a December game in Mexico City.
that is a weird choice of teams. i guess most of the other teams said no. If you are a fan of either team its not good to travel that far to play games because you burn out players and screw up their sleep patterns.
It would have been interesting if the Knicks got the Paris game this year. I bet Thibs still wouldn’t play Fournier!
I kind of think their heads were in Paris when they played the Knicks.
They lost because they had no bench to speak of. Their best back up was in Miami. They spent the off season getting a bench.
In the end it’s just another game.