2007 NBA Europe Live Tour
2007 NBA Europe Live Tour | |
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Sport | Basketball |
Duration | 6–11 October 2007 |
Number of teams | 9 |
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.
Teams
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 (2nd participation)
- Unicaja Málaga, ACB
- Real Madrid, ACB
- Estudiantes, ACB