Re: Real Madrid to enter the NBA in 2007

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:09:26 +0200, Nao440 <tnantais@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>What you say is stupid: Real Madrid don't have to break with the FIBA:
>FIBA is the FIFA of basketball: it's a world federation; Real Madrid
>isn't a member of the FIBA (or a member of the FIFA: Real Madrid is
>just a team not a national federation) and NBA is just a professionnal
>league (the same of the Premier League, or the ACB: the professionnal
>basketball league in Spain...).

Is the NBA a member of FIBA? Not bickering, I truly don't know,
Thierry. :)

BTW, this topic will be of tremendous interest to one RSS'er, whose
dual loves in sport are soccer and basketball. He's even a
sometimes-correspondent for http://www.eurobasket.com/.

>And ... there are newsgroups for basketball...

It's semi-OT. Along the same lines as that syphillitic George Galloway
Fibaw thread, only less cynical.

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