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The NBA needs to expand beyond the U.S.

By Todd Boyd
Special to Page 2

Thursday, February 28, 2008

During the recent NBA All-Star weekend, commissioner David Stern announced that he is considering expanding the league into Europe. Although the concept of a five-team European division is still in the early-discussion stage, the possibility is quite intriguing. We live in a time when technology, media and money have made a round world flat, by putting what once were far-flung places much closer together, in spite of geographical distance. This is, of course, the argument put forth by Thomas Fr ...

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