Tony Parker missed his chance to play for his country this summer, a broken finger kept him from the world championships in August, but he would not miss the chance to play the home fans in two cities. Now the San Antonio Spurs' guard is always a chance to play in his homeland.
The Spurs is one of four NBA teams that are in France, spend part of their pre-season overseas as part of NBA Europe Live Tour. The Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Clippers andPhoenix Suns, the Spurs will be in Europe at an earlier start even if this meant that they would do it really far from home. The rest of the NBA just opened training camp at home. The 76ers are in Barcelona, the Clippers in Moscow and the Suns in Treviso, Italy, and Rome.
The Philadelphia 76ers and the Phoenix Suns, later head to Cologne, Germany, the most important event for the whole trip, a two-day tournament that also CSKA Moscow and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the twoFinishers in the Euroleague last year. The last event is strongly pushed by the NBA, they will call their "most ambitious international initiative," because it comes with a number of marketing and promotional activities.
I think we can all see that this a public relations trip more than a preparation for the season because basketball has become such a global game. What will bring more challenge for the players, the fact could be that there is something like 13 time zones. They are jetretarded, and they are going to play two teams pretty tough. But at the end of the NBA has high hopes that the team achieve what they want to achieve, and in the process they want to take advantage of the trip to take for the players to get a little culture, too.
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