MEXICO CITY – Basketball has come a long way in this soccer-crazy country.
When the Mavericks and Houston Rockets played the first NBA regular season game in Mexico City, they had the game at the Palacio de los Deportes, which had the unique feature of a chain-link fence around the court level.
That was Dec. 6, 1997, and much has changed.
There’s a shiny new arena, the Arena Ciudad de Mexico and the NBA production for two games this week is nothing short of expansive. The Knicks play the Suns on Saturday.
It will be a happening.