NBA Europe Live Tour (2006-2012)

The NBA Europe Live Tour (also known as NBA Europe Live) was a series of annual basketball exhibition tours that featured teams from the NBA and teams from Europe's top professional leagues on European soil. It was launched by the National Basketball Association and the Euroleague Basketball and it would take place during the NBA's pre-season in September of October and lasted from 2006 until 2012.

Most of the European teams were playing in the ULEB-inititated EuroLeague and Europe's 2nd-tier level EuroCup. The games of the NBA Europe Live Tour Tour were played by the NBA rules. Many legendary players like Kevin Garnett, Carmelo Anthony, Paul Pierce, Allen Iverson, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili have featured in the series from 2006 until 2012.

On June 14, 2005, NBA and Euroleague Basketball announced the launch of the NBA Europe Tour as part of a 2-year partnership agreement with Electronic Arts.^[1] The series' website (as www.nba.com/europelive) went live in December 2005.

In October 2006, four NBA teams travelled to different European countries to conduct their first week of training camp overseas: the Philadelphia 76ers in Barcelona, Spain; the Los Angeles Clippers in Moscow, Russia; the San Antonio Spurs in France; and the Phoenix Suns in Treviso, Italy. The 76ers and the Suns also participated in the Cologne tournament which was on by the Philadelphia 76ers. It was the first time since the last McDonald's Championship in 1999 that NBA teams faced top European clubs in a tournament. The final game of the Tour in Barcelona attracted 16,236 fans which was the edition's record (Philadelphia 76ers against Barcelona).^[2]

The 2008 edition featured only four NBA teams playing against each other in European cities. In 2009 the EuroLeague American Tour started alongside the NBA Europe Live with Euroleague teams touring the USA to face NBA teams.

There was no tour in 2011 due to the NBA lock-out^[3][4] and the series resumed in 2012 for its final edition.^[5]

Year	Host countries	Team with best record	Record
2006	Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and Spain	San Antonio Spurs PBC CSKA Moscow	2-0
2007	England, Italy, Spain and Turkey	Boston Celtics	2-0
2008	England, France, Germany and Spain	New Jersey Nets New Orleans Hornets	2-0
2009	England, and Spain	Indiana Pacers Phoenix Suns Philadelphia 76ers	2-0
2010	England, France, and Spain	Minnesota Timberwolves	2-0
2012	Germany, Turkey, Italy, and Spain	Boston Celtics	2-0

• Philadelphia 76ers won the Cologne tournament in the 2006 edition beating PBC CSKA Moscow in the final.

Year	Player	Points	Games	Team
2006	Allen Iverson	57	3	Philadelphia 76ers
2007	Andrea Bargnani	49	3	Toronto Raptors
2008	Dwyane Wade	39	2	Miami Heat
2009	Carmelo Anthony	62	2	Denver Nuggets
2010	Amar'e Stoudemire	43	2	New York Knicks
2012	Jeff Green	33	2	Boston Celtics

Club	Participations	Editions
FC Barcelona Regal	3	2006, 2011, 2012
San Antonio Spurs	2	2009, 2012
Phoenix Suns	2	2006, 2009
Memphis Grizzlies	2	2010, 2012
Philadelphia 76ers	2	2006, 2009
Boston Celtics	2	2007, 2012
Los Angeles Clippers	2	2006, 2009
Minnesota Timberwolves	2	2007, 2010
New York Knicks	2	2009, 2010
Olimpia Milano	2	2010, 2012
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2	2006, 2009
Lottomatica Roma	2	2006, 2007
Real Madrid	2	2007. 2009

• EuroLeague American Tour
• List of NBA versus international games
• McDonald's Championship
• NBA Global Games
• NBA versus EuroLeague games

• 2006 Live tour
• Attendances

• Official website
• Historical standings