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NBA Asia Managing Director Ices Hopes For A Game In Australia

The NBA "has no plans to play a game in Australia," according to Peter Mitchell of the AAP. NBA Asia Managing Dir Scott Levy said on Tuesday that the NBA would continue to build its "business lines" in Australia and hold the Basketball Without Borders camp in Victoria in June for elite young players. But, Australian basketball fans hoping to see the likes of Steph Curry, LeBron James or Australian players Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova and Patty Mills "playing with their NBA teams will have to wait." Levy said, "We don't have any plans to bring a game now and I don't think we'd be willing to put a timeframe on that right now, but we do appreciate there's a lot of fans in Australia that are passionate about that." Australian NBA players -- Bogut, Dellavedova, Mills, Joe Ingles, Cameron Bairstow, Aron Baynes and Dante Exum -- "have all said they are keen to take their teams to Australia to play." In a column he wrote for NBA Australia in January, Bogut said that the NBA's decision to "skip Australia and take games to nations like China was financial." Bogut wrote, "Money talks, and the money is in China, so we're not quite big enough to draw the attention" (AAP, 5/4).

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