The NBA in Europe: A team in Madrid will help, not hurt its existing basketball culture

We head to the Spanish capital in our six-city tour of a hypothetical NBA European Division.

We’re now heading into the second half looking at every city in a hypothetical six-team NBA European division. Here are the cities:

For the rest of this series of posts, we are heading to countries that have well-established basketball traditions. But with that come different challenges. Let’s talk about Madrid and how it fits in the conversation.

Some things about Madrid

Madrid is the capital of and largest city in Spain. It’s also considered to be the financial capital of Southern Europe and home to most of the country’s major companies in a wide variety of sectors.