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Olympiacos will play two friendly games on October against San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers. As it became known, the Reds accepted the honorary proposal to give friendly games with teams from the NBA as well as two other European teams:

Partizan Belgrade and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The Reds will play firstly against San Antonio Spurs on October 9th and three days later they will play against Cleveland Cavaliers of LeBron James.

Olympiakos will play for its second time in its history with a team from the NBA. The first time was a legendary one since the players of coach Dusan Ivkovic (back in 1997) played against the Chicago Bulls of Jordan during the Mc Donalds open held in Paris.

At the rest games, Partizan will face Denver Naggets and Phoenix Suns while Maccabi will play against New York Niks and Los Angeles Clippers.

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If they sign another NBA player this summer then for sure they will be attractive for local fans. Once again my question is why don't NBA teams come to Europe to play? Are they afraid to play against real fans?

Quote:If they sign another NBA player this summer then for sure they will be attractive for local fans. Once again my question is why don't NBA teams come to Europe to play? Are they afraid to play against real fans?

I'm not sure, but I think last year a prohibition regarding NBA teams playing in Europe against Euro teams became active.

Imagine Nba team lost in hell of Pionir

Quote:Imagine Nba team lost in hell of Pionir

haha I would LOVE to see that!

Why do Maccabi always play against such crappy teams?