Basketball has become the world’s game.  In every country in Europe, Africa, and Asia, there’s basketball.  Where there’s basketball, there’s got to be the NBA.  Thanks to the NFL’s successful regular-season games in London, now the swinging city on the Thames is also getting its first taste of regular season NBA basketball, as David Stern has announced that the New Jersey Nets and the Toronto Raptors will play a March regular-season tilt in London’s O2 Arena.

So will this game join the NFL’s London Bowl as an annual event?  “We’ll need to assess how we do in March,” NBA commissioner David Stern said.  “It would not surprise me if this becomes an annual event.  But I don’t want to make a commitment on it.”

Of course the game will do well.  As a once-a-year-oddity, football and basketball do really well.  It’s when you try to make a season of it that you run into trouble (see also the World League of American Football/NFL Europe).  Still, the Nets and Raptors?  Way to send them the crappier end of the NBA, Stern.  I guess if Americans don’t want to see it, foreigners might?  Should’ve sent the All-Star Game!

Tags: London, England, NBA, National Basketball Association, NBA to play regular-season game in London, O2 Arena, Toronto Raptors, New Jersey Nets, NBA regular season game, international games

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