2007 NBA Europe Live Tour

The 2007 NBA Europe Live Tour was a basketball exhibition tour featuring teams from the NBA and teams from Europe's top professional leagues. The hosting countries were England, Italy, Spain and Turkey. The NBA teams traveled to Europe to begin their training camps, and played a series of exhibition matches against the European teams, and preseason games against other NBA teams. The games took place from October 6th to October 11th.

The four NBA teams that participated and the locations of their training camps:
*Boston Celtics, Rome
*Toronto Raptors, Treviso
*Memphis Grizzlies, Málaga
*Minnesota Timberwolves, Istanbul

The European participants:
*Efes Pilsen, TBL
*Lottomatica Roma, Serie A
*Unicaja Málaga, ACB
*Estudiantes, ACB
*Real Madrid, ACB

Games

teamA= Efes Pilsen flagicon|TUR|scoreA=81
teamB= flagicon|USA Minnesota Timberwolves|scoreB=84
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071006/MINEPT/boxscore.html Boxscore]
teamA= Boston Celtics flagicon|USA|scoreA=89
teamB= flagicon|CAN Toronto Raptors|scoreB=85
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071006/TORBOS/boxscore.html Boxscore]
teamA= Lottomatica Roma flagicon|ITA|scoreA=87
teamB= flagicon|CAN Toronto Raptors|scoreB=93
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071007/TORLRO/boxscore.html Boxscore]
teamA= Unicaja Málaga flagicon|ESP|scoreA=102
teamB= flagicon|USA Memphis Grizzlies|scoreB=99
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071009/MEMMAL/boxscore.html Boxscore]
teamA= Minnesota Timberwolves flagicon|USA|scoreA=81
teamB= flagicon|USA Boston Celtics|scoreB=92
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071010/BOSMIN/boxscore.html Boxscore]
teamA= Estudiantes flagicon|ESP|scoreA=73
teamB= flagicon|USA Memphis Grizzlies|scoreB=98
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071011/MEMMMT/boxscore.html Boxscore]
teamA= Real Madrid flagicon|ESP|scoreA=104
teamB= flagicon|CAN Toronto Raptors|scoreB=103
report = [http://www.nba.com/games/20071011/TORRMA/boxscore.html Boxscore]

Notes

*The participating teams were announced before Kevin Garnett was traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Boston Celtics, the meeting between his current and former team was coincidental.
*The Boston Celtics were the only team not to play against a FIBA opponent.
*Toronto Raptors forwards Andrea Bargnani and Jorge Garbajosa played for Benetton Treviso before coming to the NBA. Jorge Garbajosa played for Unicaja Málaga as well.

Trivia

* The Grizzlies' loss to Unicaja Málaga and the Raptors' loss to Real Madrid marked the 2nd and 3rd losses, out of 4 games, by NBA franchises to ACB Spanish teams since the beginning of NBA Europe Live Tour in 2006.
* The Grizzlies' loss to Unicaja Málaga and the Raptors' loss to Real Madrid marked the 8th and 9th losses by NBA franchises to Euroleague teams since 1978.
* Only Maccabi Tel Aviv (4 times: 1978, 1984 twice, 2005), the Soviet Union National Team (1988), FC Barcelona (2006) and CSKA Moscow (2006) had won against an NBA team before.

Related links

* List of NBA vs FIBA games
* McDonald's Championship

External links

* [http://www.nba.com/europelive2007/ NBA Europe Live Tour 2007]
* [http://www.faceteamshow.com/ Face Team Acrobatic Slam Dunk Team were entertaining the NBA Europe Live Tour 2007]