The NBA operates a salary cap as part of a US sports model that may not be compatible with Europe

The NBA is working on how it can apply its salary cap and revenue-sharing model to NBA Europe, its planned pan-continental basketball competition, says commissioner Adam Silver.

The basketball league operates a soft cap on teams’ salary spending and requires high-earning franchises to subsidise their poorer counterparts, part of a largely socialist model common to US sports that may not be compatible with European law if imported wholesale.

Speaking after a meeting of its board of governors in New York on Wednesday, Silver talked up NBA Europe but said many of the details were still being worked out.

“I think our basketball people now are very engaged in how the competition will work,”

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