The New York Knicks will open the 2015 NBA preseason with an international test. They’ll face the 2015 FIBA Americas League champions, Bauru, at Madison Square Garden.
Don’t expect the game to be a cakewalk; not if Bauru’s head coach has his way.
Cross-league games are generally competitive, thus breeding the potential for an upset. That much was proven as true when the Brooklyn Nets fell to Turkish club Fenerbahce 101-96 on Monday, October 5.
According to Marc Berman of The New York Post, Bauru head coach Jose Guerra is confident that his team can follow in Fenerbahce’s footsteps and defeat the Knicks.