David Kahn, Columnist

NBA Can Follow Football's European Drive

The New York Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks are heading to London this week, sparking more talk of the NBA's potential expansion into Europe. It will never happen.

January 12, 2015 at 5:38 PM UTC

By David Kahn

David Kahn has been general manager of the Indiana Pacers, president of the Minnesota Timberwolves, head of the Oregon Stadium Campaign for Major League Baseball and is currently teaching two courses on sports economics at New York University.

Why not in London?
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The New York Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks travel to London this week to play a regular-season game, which has led to another round of speculation about the National Basketball Association's plans to one day expand to England and the rest of the continent.

It will never happen -- and not because there isn’t a sufficient amount of interest in the NBA in Europe and the rest of the world, or that there is a paucity of NBA-quality arenas, or that it's due to the length of the NBA regular season.