The Nationwide Basketball Affiliation introduced earlier in the present day that the 2 regular-season video games between the Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2025-26 season shall be performed in Berlin, Germany and London, England. First, the 2 squads will face one another on January fifteenth, 2026 in Berlin. Three days later, on January 18th, the groups will go head-to-head once more in London.
The NBA additionally mapped out its European plan for 2027 and 2028. In 2027, regular-season video games will happen in Manchester, England and Paris, France. Then, in 2028, the league will maintain video games in Berlin and Paris. The video games will happen at Berlin’s Uber Area, The O2 in London, Manchester’s Co-Op Dwell, and the Accor Area in Paris.
“Saying the subsequent three seasons’ regular-season video games in Europe displays the unimaginable momentum and urge for food for NBA basketball in France, Germany, the U.Okay., and throughout the area,” stated George Aivazoglou, the NBA’s managing director of Europe and the Center East. “We sit up for welcoming the Grizzlies and the Magic to Berlin and London and to partaking followers, gamers, and the native communities by means of the video games and the encircling occasions.”
This would be the Grizzlies’ first-ever regular-season sport performed outdoors of North America. The franchise beforehand participated in preseason video games held in Spain, Puerto Rico, and France.
“We respect the chance to signify the NBA and to signify the town of Memphis and state of Tennessee on a world stage in Berlin and London,” stated Grizzlies president Jason Wexler. “With a view to undertake this uncommon alternative to deliver Memphis to a world viewers, it would require the crew to be away from residence for MLK Day. Nonetheless, we stay dedicated to supporting the Memphis group over the MLK Day vacation whereas the crew is touring, and we sit up for the Grizzlies as soon as once more anchoring the NBA’s MLK Day schedule in 2027.”
Beforehand, the Orlando Magic had performed in 13 video games outdoors of the U.S. and Canada. This shall be Orlando’s first sport in Berlin and its third in London.
“To have the Orlando Magic and the NBA play a regular-season sport in our hometown of Berlin means all the things to us. Rising up right here, we dreamed of moments like this,” stated the Magic’s Franz and Moritz Wagner, who have been born in Germany. “It’s an enormous honor to signify Berlin and Germany and present how a lot the town and nation love basketball. We hope we will encourage youngsters the best way we have been impressed watching video games from afar.”
Presently, the dates and members for the 2027 and 2028 video games haven’t been introduced. The league is predicted to disclose that info earlier than the beginning of the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons, respectively.
Each the Grizzlies and Magic are coming off seasons the place they reached the playoffs. Within the Jap Convention, the Magic fell to the second-seeded Boston Celtics 4-1. Out West, the Grizzlies have been swept by the eventual NBA Champion Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder.