NBA Europe Live Tour
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The NBA Europe Live Tour was an international basketball exhibition and competition produced jointly by the National Basketball Association and the Euroleague. The tour featured four NBA teams training and playing matches against Euroleague teams in Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and Spain. Four standalone games were played, along with two tournaments in Moscow and Cologne. The tour took place between 5 October and 11 October 2006.
Four NBA teams went to different countries to conduct their first week of training camp overseas:
- Philadelphia 76ers in Barcelona, Spain
- Los Angeles Clippers in Moscow, Russia
- San Antonio Spurs in France
- Phoenix Suns in Treviso, Italy
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[edit] Games
- 5 October 2006, Lyon: ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 90–115 San Antonio Spurs
- 5 October 2006, Barcelona: Winterthur FCB 104–99 Philadelphia 76ers
- 6 October 2006, Rome: Pallacanestro Virtus Roma 93–100 Phoenix Suns
- 8 October 2006, Paris: Maccabi Tel Aviv 84–97 San Antonio Spurs
[edit] In Moscow
PBC CSKA Moscow, BC Khimki, and Los Angeles Clippers played each other in Moscow.
- 5 October: PBC CSKA Moscow 94–78 BC Khimki
- 6 October: BC Khimki 91–98 Los Angeles Clippers
- 7 October: PBC CSKA Moscow 94–75 Los Angeles Clippers
[edit] In Cologne
| Semi finals | Finals | |||||
| 10 October | ||||||
| Philadelphia 76ers | 103 | |||||
| Phoenix Suns | 100 | |||||
| 11 October | ||||||
| Philadelphia 76ers | 85 | |||||
| PBC CSKA Moscow | 71 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 10 October | 11 October | |||||
| PBC CSKA Moscow | 90 | Phoenix Suns | 119 | |||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 81 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 102 | |||
[edit] Trivia
The 76ers' loss to FC Barcelona and the Clippers' loss to CSKA Moscow marked only the 3rd and 4th losses by NBA teams to international clubs since 1988.
