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Article: Club Championships May Lurk for NBA; Stern Says More International Play Possible
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- The Washington Post
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- September 15, 1990
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The possibility of a world club championship involving the NBA
champion could be part of the league's future, Commissioner David
Stern said today.
The league's participation in the McDonald's Open-this year, the
New York Knicks will play against POP 84 Split, the European
champion, Scavolini Pesaro of Italy and host Barcelona-has given the
league a sense of the possibilities, Stern said.
"If anything, the McDonald's Open is very much sort of a testing
ground for a club championship," he said. "We don't wait until the
end of our season to send our champion to it. We do some
handicapping.
"It might be that the McDonald's Open in some future year will be
a tournament," Stern said. "We don't ...