{"id":279924,"date":"2025-10-05T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:01:10","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-become-first-nba-team-to-play-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279924\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans become first NBA team to play in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Pelicans played two games against NBL teams in Australia over the weekend, drawing a \u201clittle under 30,000 fans\u201d to Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. The Pelicans were the first NBA team to play in Australia, so fans who could not get tickets will have to see if NBL owner <b>Larry Kestelman<\/b> and the league can \u201cconvince another team to visit.\u201d Kestelman \u201calready has interest from other outfits.\u201d However, he believes it will \u201ccost too much to bring two teams to Australia\u201d and that the NBA would \u201cmore likely send those games to bigger markets.\u201d He does think visits like the Pelicans made \u201ccould work both in Victoria and other states.\u201d When asked if he could see a regular season game in Australia, Pelicans coach <b>Willie Green<\/b> said that he \u201ccould see it happening due to the growing reach of the NBA\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/new-orleans-pelicans-praise-australian-tour-as-nbl-push-for-more-nba-visits-to-australia-20251005-p5n06p.html \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/new-orleans-pelicans-praise-australian-tour-as-nbl-push-for-more-nba-visits-to-australia-20251005-p5n06p.html \">Melbourne AGE, 10\/5<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pelicans played two games against NBL teams in Australia over the weekend, drawing a \u201clittle under 30,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1339,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-279924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115322636844404467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}