Basketball

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has launched a tender process to decide the host nation for its 2019 World Cup.

Longtime owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, Herb Kohl, has agreed a deal to sell the NBA basketball franchise to New York investment firm executives Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens for $550m (€398.5m).

NBA basketball franchise the Indiana Pacers are set to remain in Indianapolis after a deal worth a reported $160m (€116.1m) was agreed to keep the team in the city.

North American basketball league the NBA is to stage only its second game in South America as part of its Global Games 2014 lineup.

Euroleague Basketball has announced that today's (Thursday's) Top 16 clash between FC Barcelona and Laboral Kutxa Vitoria will become the first game in European basketball to generate content on the Google Glass wearable computer.

NBA basketball superstar Kobe Bryant has formed his own company and has invested in sports drink brand BodyArmor as he plans for life after his playing career.

Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Brooklyn Nets, has announced he plans to relocate the company that operates the NBA basketball team to Russia.

Fiba Europe, the governing body for basketball in Europe, has removed the 2014 U-18 European Championship men’s Division B competition from Donetsk, Ukraine, but has insisted that it still hopes the EuroBasket 2015 tournament will take place in the country.

The European division of the International Basketball Federation, Fiba, has denied that Ukraine has given up the hosting rights to EuroBasket 2015 even though tournament director Markiyan Lubkivsky admitted yesterday (Wednesday) that he “cannot imagine” how to host the national team event next year.

Ukraine has given up hosting rights to the 2015 EuroBasket national team basketball competition because of the political and financial situation in the country, according to tournament director Markiyan Lubkivsky.

UK Sport, the national high-performance sports agency, has announced that weightlifting will have its funding as a ‘World Class Programme’ restored, but the withdrawal of money from six other sports, including basketball, remains in place.

The Fédération Française de Basketball (FFBB), the sport’s governing body in France, has submitted an offer to replace crisis-hit Ukraine as the host country of the EuroBasket 2015 national team tournament.

The Japanese Basketball Association (JBA) has announced it is to launch a new men’s professional basketball league in 2016.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has adopted a raft of new general statutes designed to strengthen the organisation for future growth opportunities, including the addition of specific places on its central board for representatives of the sport's athletes and North American league the NBA.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has appointed London-based agency The Sports Consultancy to support its search for a host for its 2019 World Cup.

The official development competition of North American basketball league the NBA, the D-League, has expanded to a record 18 teams following the announcement that the New York Knicks have acquired a new franchise.