Could an esports team representing the Los Angeles Lakers potentially compete against an international esports organization like Team Paris or Team Shanghai? According to Mark Tatum, NBA Deputy Commissioner, it’s a future possibility.
On two separate occasions in April, first at the opening session of the 2017 CAA World Congress of Sports and then at NAB with M.E.T. 360 Live presented by NeuLion, Tatum expressed the international vision for the upcoming NBA 2K esports league.
“Right now, we have more than half to two-thirds of our NBA teams who have signed up and said they will have teams in the NBA 2K esports league,” Tatum first said of the new league, which last week named its Managing Director in senior NBA executive Brendan Donohue.