Stuart Hodge

From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, speak 🇪🇸 and 🇫🇷. Host of @nbaeuropepod. Writer for @SkySports. Interested in basketball, football and the business of sport. 💜 CAWOTB.

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Full podcast episode here:

https://t.co/hrMEprfhXn

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Adam Silver didn't just say NBA Europe is alive. He gave it a calendar.

Final bids: end of June.
Tip-off: the 27-28 season.
Franchises announced, potentially in autumn.
16 teams, 12 of them permanent, built with FIBA.

A vague idea just turned into a deadline. 🏀

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Back across the NBA Europe story full-time after some personal and family matters had to take priority.

Wrote this up for @SkySportsNBA and @nbaeuropepod will be covering the story in more depth later today.

https://t.co/H8Lo8ThQNp

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Apologies for the delay all, been busy building 😉

[The Crossover: NBA Europe @nbaeuropepod]

Big news today with these Mark Tatum remarks. We'll be back with a breaking podcast in the next hour.

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And capable of this 😳

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Wemby is so, so easy to root for.

All about his team and a joy to watch.

[Marc Stein @TheSteinLine]

Victor Wembayama named Western Conference Finals MVP.

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Absolutely gutted for him.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

We regret to announce that the knee injury sustained by Billy Gilmour in today’s win over Curaçao will rule him out of participation in @FIFAWorldCup.

We're all with you, Billy 💙

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@PaulJohnDykes @Weemick980937 Appreciate the shout Mick, and always up for talking about the Hoops of course!

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@richscottmedia Thanks Rich!

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Richter scale at the end.

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The Premier League's global gravity could do for basketball what nothing else has managed. Catapult it to irrefutably the world's second sport.

[The Crossover: NBA Europe @nbaeuropepod]

What if the Premier League is the unlock?
Man City. Arsenal. Chelsea. Basketball.

The tribal pull of English football clubs could launch the sport to undisputed No.2 globally.

That's the argument.

New episode out now. 👇
https://t.co/2bjR2Aey7m

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This could become THE most significant moment in sports business history.

And there's an equally plausible scenario where it fractures basketball right down the middle globally.

That's what makes this unlike anything we've seen before.

More on EP02 of @nbaeuropepod.

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@TDemacro I think that’s a play over time.

To make the product premium, you’d need non-Brits.

Then over time pipelines would be built to produce players.

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The play could well for veterans to come over to help a new league whilst it's in its infancy.

The #NBA has no shortage of such veterans.

[Toni Canyameras @Canyameridis71]

👀 🇪🇺 DeMar DeRozan, on playing in NBA Europe:

“I'm up to be hooping. If I feel good, I never turn down playing basketball. I love it. As long as I can play, I'm going to play basketball. If it's something that's cool, that makes sense, it’ll be something special, why not?”

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@KKap1l @arbarkas Not backed by the NBA we haven’t.

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Arsenal playing basketball. Chelsea asking why they're not.

That's not a fever dream. That's the trajectory, if it's managed correctly.

That's what I argued to @arbarkas on the new episode of The Crossover.
🎙️ https://t.co/Aw5YwTnVPQ

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April 28 is the date everyone needs in their diary.

No formal bilateral in Istanbul but both Chus Bueno and George Aivazoglou in the same building tells you everything about where this is heading.

[Davide Chinellato @dchinellato]

#Euroleague CEO Chus Bueno and #NBA EME managing director George Aivazoglou will both be in attendance tomorrow at Fenerbahce v Real Madrid but no formal meeting has been scheduled, per sources.
NBA, FIBA and Euroleague will formally meet on April 28
More soon on @Gazzetta_it

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And that's before you factor in what happens when the NBA lands in Europe.

The asset class doesn't just grow. It multiplies. New franchises, new markets, new media rights cycles.

Apollo aren't wrong about the underfinancing – but I'd argue they're looking at the current map, not the one that's coming.

Worth reading alongside everything happening with the NBA's European expansion.

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

Sports might be the most underfinanced $2.5 trillion asset class in the world.

Apollo published a white paper on sports investing.

Thread

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@trecet Por supuesto.

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Full remarks here from @nbaeuropepod 👇

https://t.co/DuLdwhtW8n

[The Crossover: NBA Europe @nbaeuropepod]

EuroLeague CEO Chus Bueno just posted this on LinkedIn.

Less than 2 months in the job. Former NBA executive. And he just said the quiet part out loud.

🧵

[Stuart Hodge @Hodgeythehack]

Massive statement from @EuroLeague chief Chus Bueno on LinkedIn:

- EuroLeague BOD has greenlit a franchise model transition and market expansion plan

- He explicitly endorses NBA-EuroLeague partnership talks – not just openness, but active advocacy

- He mentioned how fragmentation dilutes value for everyone – clubs, media, sponsors, fans

Another big story shift. We will dive right into it on Ep 2 of @nbaeuropepod early next week.