The NBA is continuing its international expansion and will launch an NBA G League team in Mexico City in 2020-21, the league announced Thursday.
Silver, speaking ahead of the Mavericks-Pistons game, which is being played Thursday night in Mexico City, announced that the Capitanes, a professional team currently competing in Mexico's Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, will join the NBA G League as the league's first club from outside the U.S. and Canada.
It will have an initial five-year commitment from the league, playing its home games at the Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City.