{"id":292306,"date":"2025-10-10T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:53:13","slug":"nba-china-games-2025-phoenix-suns-surge-back-to-beat-brooklyn-nets-in-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292306\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA China Games 2025: Phoenix Suns surge back to beat Brooklyn Nets in Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long-awaited NBA China Games returned for the first time in six years on Friday evening as the Phoenix Suns overcame an 18-point deficit to beat the Brooklyn Nets 132-127 after overtime in Macau.<\/p>\n

Four more years remain on the multi-year deal between the NBA and Sands China in the casino hub \u2013 not to mention a second game between these two teams to come on Sunday \u2013 but the league\u2019s chief said before tip-off that the pre-season event could make a comeback in mainland China, too, in the coming years.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, games can take place in other parts of China, concurrent with our Macau arrangement,\u201d NBA commissioner Adam Silver said at a media round table, hours after he hailed a \u201ctransformational partnership\u201d with the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).<\/p>\n

On the 13 previous occasions when NBA pre-season games were held in the country, Macau had co-hosted only once, in 2007. But NBA China chief executive Michael Ma did not rule out Hong Kong joining its neighbour as a potential destination for these games.<\/p>\n

\"Macau\u2019sMacau\u2019s Venetian Arena hosts the Brooklyn Nets\u2019 clash with the Phoenix Suns on Friday. Photo: Karma Lo<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at this part of the world, China, the Greater Bay Area, as an integral territory together to really spread around our mission to develop basketball in China,\u201d he told the round table. \u201cSo right now, we\u2019re focused on getting these two games here tonight and in two days from here, but in the future, we\u2019re definitely looking at the Greater Bay Area.\u201d<\/p>\n

With NBA Europe, a pan-European league, expected to launch in October 2027, top NBA officials were open to the idea of an equivalent set-up coming to Asia when the time was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-awaited NBA China Games returned for the first time in six years on Friday evening as the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":292307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1339,3124,7196,96282,24952,37352,1260,149738,1589,1721,149740,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,149739],"class_list":{"0":"post-292306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-devin-booker","14":"tag-joe-tsai","15":"tag-macau","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-china-games","19":"tag-phoenix","20":"tag-phoenix-suns","21":"tag-the-venetian-arena","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-zeng-fanbo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115350680804001110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292306","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=292306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}