Presenting his opinion on the results of a recent Euroleague Commercial Assets shareholders meeting in Barcelona and ensuing talks with FIBA and the NBA in Geneva , the president and chief executive officer of CSKA , Andrey Vatutin, posted a column on the Russian outlet, Sport Express .

“Anyone expecting this to be a de facto expansion of the NBA was sorely mistaken,” he described the developments in the partnership between FIBA and the NBA, widely labeled as NBA Europe, “European clubs will not play games against the Lakers , Celtics , or Knicks , they will not participate in the draft, and Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will not be making regular visits to our side of the Atlantic.”

“The plan envisions the creation of a new basketball organization under a global

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