Some really interesting developments for European Basketball:
NBA Europe
The NBA officially announced that they’re looking at creating a league in Europe — which has been rumored for 30 years, with a big increase of rumors these past few months.
There’s a lot that’s still up in the air between FIBA vs Euroleague, and the NBA announcing this in partnership with FIBA. But the future of European Basketball is definitely going ti be defined by this, whether it works or not.
Personally I welcome the NBA —provided that they take into consideration the specificities, culture, history and tradition that we have here on the Old Continent.
One thing that worries me though is that they seem to be interested in talking to established football ⚽️ teams instead of trying to find a way to work with established Basketball Clubs. For example: the rumor is that they’d better work with, PSG (Paris St Germain) than my existing Paris Basketball team.
Which leads me to my second point:
Paris Basketball (my hometown team)
Paris Basketball is already assured of staying in the Euroleague next year.
…which is both a sign that:
our team did great this year,
but also a cause of the interest of the NBA for the French market
AND the fact that there is great passion for basketball here in France, (and I believe we’re the 2nd biggest provider of non-American players in the NBA, after Canada.)
I guess I’m keeping my season ticket for years to come 🎫 🏀
Finally discovered our local library and was delighted to take this graphic novel out for a loan!
Been stuck on something for work the past few days — something minor but couldn’t wrap my head around it.
Took some time to formulate it to my AI overlords, with the right context and suddenly things are cleared up. I love using it to help me gain clarity — feels kinda super power-ish
⚾️⚾️⚾️.
The Trump regime remains a shitty, segregationist enterprise that is unworthy of anyone’s respect or obeisance.
Finally took some time to open my @Topps Series 1 card packs today, ahead of the upcoming Baseball season :)
Been starved of Baseball — very excited for the start of the Tokyo Series later today between the Dodgers & Cubs!
Think of any game you played as a kid and I can almost guarantee you that you can play that game today “across new devices and in new ways” today. This doesn’t need AI at all, it’s been happening for decades via emulation.
Spent some time with the pals at Fixtured to tell my story of being a sports fan :)
¡Atléti por favor!
Absolutely rooting for the Colchoneros tonight in the #ChampionsLeague return game against their archrival and perennial Karen-team Real Madrid
Very excited to open this baby up in the next few days: ⚾️ 🃏
lol Liverpool ✌️ #ChampionsLeague
This VaultX album for my Topps trading cards is awesome, if somehow much larger than I had anticipated 😅
A Fantasy Baseball update:
My draft was on Sunday, mid-afternoon, so I had to draft using the Yahoo Mobile App, while being out and about, hanging out with friends.
It was a nice and refreshing view compared to team-specific documentaries I’ve seen in the football (⚽️) world, and I really enjoyed the variety of discovering different teams, personalities, and players!
For someone like me, based in Europe, it was super useful to learn more about this league and its personalities. I wish more teams were covered, but I’m assuming that this would be the case if the show was to get renewed for another few seasons… MLS has definitely had the perception of being the “soon-to-be in the Top 5 of football leagues in the world” for 15 years now and we’re still waiting to see it happen, but at least the marketing has been good and the level of play has increased significantly. Though there’s still a lot of work to be done at youth level for the sport to become as mainstream and universal as it is in the rest of the world.
Next up on my watchlist:
Drive to Survive (Season 7), before the start of the new Formula 1 season, this weekend.
