The Charlotte Hornets and Milwaukee Bucks will play the first regular-season NBA game in Paris Jan. 24, the league announced early Thursday.
The Hornets have two high-profile French players in point guard Tony Parker and guard-forward Nic Batum. The Bucks have a prominent European player in Greece’s Giannis Antetokounmpo.
The game will be held the AccorHotels Arena Friday, Jan. 24. which has previously hosted nine NBA preseason exhibitions.
This isn’t the Hornets’ first game in France; they played a preseason exhibition against the Golden State Warriors in October of 1994.
Parker is the most storied NBA player of French origin, a future Hall-of-Famer who won four championships with the San Antonio Spurs before signing with the Hornets in July.