NEW YORK (AFP) – The first NBA games to be played in India will be staged next in October at Mumbai with pre-season contests between the Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings, the league announced Thursday.
The 2019 matchups, the first ever by any North American sports league in the nation of 1.2 billion people, will be played Oct. 4 and 5 at the NSCI Dome and televised live in India.
The Kings are owned by the NBA’s first Indian-born majority owner, Mumbai native Vivek Ranadive.
