Three years following a first regular season game at Paris-Bercy, the NBA will renew the experience on January 19 with a meeting between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons, the North American Basketball League announced on Tuesday May 24. .
The League had promised it, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed its plans. He therefore finally had to wait three years to have a second NBA game in his prestigious championship in France. Three years following a first regular season game at Paris-Bercy, the NBA will renew the experience on January 19 with a meeting between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons, the North American Basketball League announced on Tuesday May 24. .
It will be at the end of January in the lair of Bercy, the site which will host the final phase of the men’s and women’s Olympic basketball tournaments, 18 months later. “It’s fabulous! The NBA is back in Paris, I’m really looking forward to it. Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the country is fabulous and we can’t wait to see the Bulls and Pistons play there”, s rejoiced with AFP BJ Armstrong, former leader of Chicago during the first period of Michael Jordan on the shores of Michigan.
Three years ago, 15,000 lucky ones (out of more than 100,000 requests!) were able to see the Greek Giannis Antetokounmpo, MVP 2019 and 2020, for the first big NBA show in France for a regular season match, which the Bucks won once morest the Charlotte Hornets.
For the NBA, this game will be the 34th played outside the United States and Canada, in what it calls the “Global Games”, launched in November 1990 and hosted in four countries: Japan and Mexico in the 1990s and in the early 2000s, then Mexico and Great Britain in the 2010s, and finally France.
Before the regular season matches, the NBA was exported outside its lands for preseason matches or promotional tours from the 1980s – Paris hosted some from 1991, with the Lakers of Magic Johnson, who had in particular faced the CSP Limoges of Richard Dacoury. The “Dac'” had also had the chance a few years later, in 1997, to face Bercy also once morest another NBA legend, Michael Jordan, during a pre-season promotional tournament for a match. between the Bulls and PSG Basket.
