The G League wants go international. They originally planned to field a team in Mexico City this coming season and hope for an international expansion over the next five years. And last year, the league wanted to send the Long Island Nets to China.
On this week’s “The LIneup” podcast, co-hosted by J. Alton Byrd, Long Island’s vice president of business operations, he and Shareef Abdul-Rahim, the NBA G League President, talked about how they wanted Nets G League team to play some games in China before last October’s “China Games,” which pitted the Brooklyn Nets vs.