Note the date of Thursday, January 19, 2023. As Le Parisien revealed on April 28, the year 2023 will celebrate the return of the NBA to Paris.
Put on hold for two years because of the health crisis, the NBA offers a new poster for its regular season, on January 19, with an opposition between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons at the Accor Arena in Paris.
The date and meeting have been confirmed by the NBA itself.
Guess who's back?
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The @ChicagoBulls and the @DetroitPistons are coming to #NBAParis!
January 19, 2023 at the @Accor_Arena
Register now to access presales!
— NBA France (@NBAFRANCE) May 24, 2022
It will be the clash of the Eastern Conference between the legendary Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons, whose last NBA title dates back to 2004. A meeting that already makes your mouth water.
On their Twitter account, the Detroit Pistons say they are eager to come and play in Paris in January 2023.
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đź’» @JoakimNoah: "Seeing the Bulls again in Paris is going to be really cool! It will be special, there is a real rivalry between the two teams"#NBAParis pic.twitter.com/KE8uMXTOZv
— NBAextra (@NBAextra) May 24, 2022
In 2020, the very first NBA regular season meeting in Paris raised a huge popular wave.
At the time, Giannis Antetokounmpo's Milwaukee Bucks, NBA champions in 2021, beat (116-103) the Charlottes Hornets, owned by Michael Jordan.
The pre-sales are already open and risk being taken by storm as was the case two and a half years ago.