Club: PSG in the NBA thanks to the former club of Wembanyama?

PSG and the NBA are circling one another. The well-known North American basketball league plans to create an NBA in Europe from 2027 and intends to depend on already present European golf equipment, in addition to sturdy soccer manufacturers, equivalent to PSG. To take part on this undertaking, PSG should associate with an present basketball membership or purchase one.

Paris Basketball, reigning French champion, appears to be essentially the most logical choice, however a number of obstacles stand in the way in which of PSG, which is subsequently exploring different avenues. Nanterre, which additionally already performs in Betclic Elite (the primary French basketball division), is an alternative choice, however in line with L’Equipe, the Hauts-de-Seine membership has indicated that it has not had any contact with the NBA for the second.

PSG might additionally purchase golf equipment taking part in within the second or third division with the concept of ​​shortly shifting them as much as division 1, participation in NBA Europe requiring a priori taking part in on the highest nationwide stage (even when this stays to be confirmed). Through which room would the potential future PSG basketball staff play? That is one other huge query.

Poissy, Massy or… Levallois for the rebirth of PSG Basket?

L’Equipe additionally suggests this morning the chance that PSG buys a basketball membership situated within the metropolis the place it should construct its future soccer stadium and maybe a future basketball corridor. Poissy has a basketball staff within the third division, whereas Massy has one within the fourth division.

However one other monitor might effectively be situated a lot nearer to Paris, to the northwest of the capital, close to Levallois-Perret. Based on L’Equipe, PSG is in discussions with the Metropolitans of Levallois, who returned to the third division final season after the dying of the Mets 92 (Boulogne-Levallois) of Victor Wembanyama and Vincent Collet, finalists of the French Championship in 2023.

And traditionally, this Levallois basketball membership has a hyperlink with PSG because it got here from the merger between Paris Basket Racing and Levallois Sporting Membership Basket in 2007. And Paris Basket Racing had been PSG Racing Basket from 1992 to 2000 below the management of Charles Biétry and Luc Dayan, notably successful a championship title in 1997.

For PSG, it might subsequently be a pleasant wink to relaunch a basketball staff in Levallois. The present president of the Metropolitans can be… Luc Dayan, who is aware of PSG very effectively and even the Qataris, whom he tried to deliver to PSG in 2006, 5 years earlier than the arrival of QSI. Based on L’Equipe, Dayan is engaged on a gathering with QSI within the coming weeks.

Final Could, he already talked about to Le Parisien the potential for his Metropolitans collaborating within the NBA Europe journey: “I see a type of legitimacy as a result of the Metropolitans are the continuation of PSG basketball and, on the time, we had already thought of collaborating in an extension of the NBA in Europe (…) The Metropolitans are an actual model, identified in the US because of the Mets 92 (the place Victor Wembanyama performed throughout his final season in France in 2022-2023) and are linked to PSG. »