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2007 NBA Europe Live Tour

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Sport
  
Basketball

Number of teams
  
9

Duration
  
6–11 October 2007

The 2007 NBA Europe Live Tour was a basketball exhibition tour featuring teams from the NBA and teams from Europe's top professional leagues, as part of the NBA Global Games. The hosting countries were England, Italy, Spain and Turkey. The NBA teams traveled to Europe to begin their training camps, and played a series of exhibition matches against the European teams, and preseason games against other NBA teams. The games took place from October 6 to October 11 and the NBA teams prevailed 5 games to 2 over the European teams.

Contents

The four NBA teams that participated and the locations of their training camps:

  • Boston Celtics, Rome
  • Toronto Raptors, Treviso
  • Memphis Grizzlies, Málaga
  • Minnesota Timberwolves, Istanbul

    • The European participants:

  • Efes Pilsen, TBL
  • Lottomatica Roma, Serie A
  • Unicaja Málaga, ACB
  • Estudiantes, ACB
  • Real Madrid, ACB

    • Trivia

  • The Grizzlies' loss to Unicaja Málaga and the Raptors' loss to Real Madrid marked the 2nd and 3rd losses, out of 4 games, by NBA franchises to ACB Spanish teams since the beginning of NBA Global Games in 2006.
  • The Grizzlies' loss to Unicaja Málaga and the Raptors' loss to Real Madrid marked the 7th and 8th losses by NBA franchises to Euroleague teams since 1978.
  • Only Maccabi Tel Aviv (4 times: 1978, 1984 twice, 2005), the Soviet Union National Team (1988), FC Barcelona (2006) and CSKA Moscow (2006) had won against an NBA team before.
  • List of NBA versus international games
  • McDonald's Championship

    • References

    2007 NBA Europe Live Tour Wikipedia
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