NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Says Paris Could Host International Games

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that Paris "could be the next destination for an international NBA game," according to Ian Harrison of the AP. Speaking before the Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic played in London on Thursday, Silver said he had just "emerged from a meeting with executives of AEG, who had proposed a game in Paris." Silver said that the prospect of a game in Paris is ''something that we will look at closely,'' calling France ''a fantastic basketball market.'' Silver also said that the NBA is ''not actively taking steps'' to put a franchise in Europe, but he acknowledges that holding a future All-Star game on the opposite side of the Atlantic is ''something that we'd like to figure out a way to do at some point" (AP, 1/14).