The National Basketball Association introduced earlier at the moment that the two regular-season games between the Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2025-26 season will be played 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 Arena, The O2 in London, Manchester’s Co-Op Live, and the Accor Arena in Paris.
“Announcing 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.Ok., and throughout the area,” mentioned George Aivazoglou, the NBA’s managing director of Europe and the Middle East. “We stay up for welcoming the Grizzlies and the Magic to Berlin and London and to participating followers, gamers, and the native communities by means of the video games and the encircling occasions.”
This will be the Grizzlies’ first-ever regular-season game played outside of North America. The franchise beforehand participated in preseason video games held in Spain, Puerto Rico, and France.
“We admire the chance to characterize the NBA and to characterize the town of Memphis and state of Tennessee on a world stage in Berlin and London,” mentioned Grizzlies president Jason Wexler. “In order to undertake this uncommon alternative to carry Memphis to a world viewers, it should require the group to be away from residence for MLK Day. However, we stay dedicated to supporting the Memphis neighborhood over the MLK Day vacation whereas the group is touring, and we stay up for the Grizzlies as soon as once more anchoring the NBA’s MLK Day schedule in 2027.”
Previously, the Orlando Magic had performed in 13 video games outdoors of the U.S. and Canada. This will be Orlando’s first game 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 pieces to us. Growing up right here, we dreamed of moments like this,” mentioned the Magic’s Franz and Moritz Wagner, who have been born in Germany. “It’s an enormous honor to characterize Berlin and Germany and present how a lot the town and nation love basketball. We hope we are able to encourage youngsters the way in which we have been impressed watching video games from afar.”
At this time, 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.
Both the Grizzlies and Magic are coming off seasons the place they reached the playoffs. In the Eastern Conference, the Magic fell to the second-seeded Boston Celtics 4-1. Out West, the Grizzlies have been swept by the eventual NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder.
