Novak Djokovic joins secret basketball project

The champion tennis subordinate successful the world, Novak Djokovic, joined a large and concealed task that could alteration the satellite of basketball. It is an inaugural called "Project B", which is down Jeff Prentis, 1 of the founders of the celebrated Skype. The extremity of this task is to make a caller hoops league that would vie with the NBA, which has attracted a batch of attraction successful sports circles.

Prentis decided to collaborate with Grady Barnett, a erstwhile Facebook employee, and unneurotic they began to make this task distant from the nationalist eye. According to the American "The Sun", Djokovic joined the story, on with Sloane Stephens from the satellite of tennis. The task besides includes celebrated names specified arsenic Steve Young from the NFL, and Candace Parker, Alana Beard and Lauren Jackson who played successful the WNBA league.

Project B successful Singapore

As "Front Office Sports" writes, the commencement of the caller contention is planned for the autumn of 2026. The thought is that determination would beryllium a men's and a women's league, and the seasons would past until April, meaning they would straight vie with the NBA, though possibly not the WNBA competition.

Maverick Carter, concern spouse of LeBron James, who has been portion of the squad since the precise beginning, besides participates successful the project. Together with LeBron, helium besides met with the celebrated manager Miško Ražnatović, who represents Nikola Jokić.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has already commented connected the full situation: "As acold arsenic them wanting to bash thing competitive, I've simply backed out. Of people they person the close to bash that. I cognize firsthand that it's not casual to tally the league. But contention is simply a bully thing, it keeps everyone awake."

The office of the task volition beryllium successful Singapore, and it is planned that the league volition person six teams with eleven players each and that 7 two-week tournaments volition beryllium held passim Asia, Europe and America. Salaries should beryllium up to 3 times higher than successful the WNBA, which is already attracting the attraction of galore stars who volition go escaped adjacent summer.