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While NBA teams such as the Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers, and others have monitored Malik Beasley’s legal situation, the sharpshooter has also drawn significant overseas interest from teams, including Euroleague’s Partizan Belgrade, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich, along with Liaoning, Guangdong, and Shanxi in the Chinese Basketball Association, league sources told HoopsHype.
Despite ending previous sponsorship agreements with Qatar and Rwanda, the fact that Bayern Munich’s leadership refused to budge on its ties to the UAE further emphasizes how effective the Gulf state’s brand management and public relations strategies have been. Don’t expect the NBA, which also maintains partnership with other autocrats like Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, is unlikely to speak out about the UAE’s human rights record … but imagine if they did. Imagine if genocide, war crimes and entrenched authoritarianism were red lines for global sports.
Tatum also laid out countries that will likely host the 10-to-12 permanent NBA Europe franchises, identifying France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Greece. He also specifically singled out potential Euroleague clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and LDLC ASVEL (owned by former NBAer Tony Parker). “Almost like the Champions League of basketball in Europe,” Tatum said. “So brands like Real Madrid and Barca and Man City and PSG and AC Milan playing basketball. That’s pretty compelling. Not only premium live sports content that’s relevant in Europe, but it’s relevant globally. It’s relevant in Asia, it’s relevant in the United States and North America because some of the brands that we’re talking to have tremendous global followings.” He also mentioned there would likely be a bridge year before four other teams qualify for the league in Year 2, saying, “If you’re in Lithuania, if you’re in Serbia, if you’re in Croatia, other clubs in those markets, we want every team to have an opportunity to play into that top tier league.”
Spencer Dinwiddie inked a contract with FC Bayern Munich for the remainder of the 2025-26 season. The EuroLeague outfit announced his signing on Thursday. The 32-year-old winger will reunite with Gordon Herbert, the current head coach of the German club and a consultant at the Brooklyn Nets, during the 2019-20 season. Using his established relationship with the former Net, he 66-year-old tactician sealed the deal to bring in Dinwiddie.
After dragging Germany to the top of the world in 2023, coach Gordie Herbert begins a new era with Canada, as they are approaching FIBA AmeriCup 2025. Bayern Munich’s head coach decided to call up 14 players in a preliminary roster ahead of the start of the competition, which will take place in Nicaragua from 22-31 August. Among them, both the newcomer at BC Dubai, Mfiondu Kabengele, and Isiaha Mike, who spent the 2024-25 season at Partizan Belgrade, are present.
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"I didn't sleep all night," Saraf told Haaretz from Germany after being drafted. "It's amazing, I feel really good, happy, but there's not a lot of time, there's a game tonight." Saraf and his team, Ratiopharm Ulm, will play Thursday night in the fifth and decisive game of the German league playoff series against Bayern Munich.
NetsDaily: Ben Saraf’s Ratiopharm Ulm lost to Bayern Munich today in Game 5 of the Bundesliga Finals. Saraf had his worst game of the season the day after Nets picked him at 26. He scored two points in 11 minutes.
Michael Grange: Gord Herbert is new head coach for @CanBball men’s team through the 2028 Olympics, per sources. Herbert, a Canadian, is head coach for EuroLeague club Bayern Munich & previously led Germany to @FIBA World Cup gold in 2023, and @EuroBasket gold in ‘22. Story up soon @Sportsnet .
He certainly checks off a lot of boxes. The former Canadian Olympic team (1984) player has had a long and successful career in Europe and is currently head coach for EuroLeague club Bayern Munich. Herbert was the head coach for the German national team when it won bronze at EuroBasket in 2022 and gold at the 2023 World Cup before finishing fourth at the Olympics in Paris. He was with Canada during World Cup qualifying prior to Nurse being hired in 2019.
One idea the NBA has already explored, sources said, is partnering with major soccer clubs in places such as Manchester, U.K., to have expansion teams under the soccer clubs' umbrellas. Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich are soccer powerhouses that already have basketball teams in the EuroLeague.
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Donatas Urbonas: Lonnie Walker IV is set to make his EuroLeague debut on Thursday against Bayern in Munich. 🏥 Alen Smailagic is out with a hand injury and will be reevaluated this week. ❔ Bryant Dunston is traveling with Zalgiris and will be a game-time decision. pic.x.com/s7lRIwQ8M7
Another former teammate in Milan, Shabazz Napier, joined. “Congratulations Champ. Thankful for all of those moments I had you as a teammate/brother. You deserve this moment because you paved the way for all of us my brother. You made the ultimate sacrifice time and time again. Legendary Hines. Love always”, the newest Bayern Munich’s playmaker said.
Bayern Munich is in advanced talks with Shabazz Napier, sources tell BasketNews.
Former Celtics player Carsen Edwards re-signed with German team Bayern Munich until the 2025-26 season.