For the third time in its history, after 2020 and 2023, the NBA will invite itself to France, to Paris next season for a regular season match. The major American basketball league revealed on Wednesday the names of the two teams that will face each other on Thursday, January 11, 2024. They will be the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The match will take place, like the previous ones, at the Accor Arena in Paris-Bercy. Ticketing information has not yet been released. In 2020, the return of the NBA to Paris pitted the Milwaukee Bucks against the Charlotte Hornets. On January 19, it was the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons who set the French capital on fire.
The poster between Cleveland and Brooklyn is not a clash of behemoths, but the two teams were part of the 16 (out of 30) to play in the play-offs last spring. Cleveland, where ultra-prolific fullback Donovan Mitchell plays, author of a 70-point game this season, had been eliminated by the New York Knicks. Brooklyn, despite having versatile winger Mikal Bridges, also didn’t make it past the first round against the Philadelphia Sixers.
