translated from Spanish: Mexico will have official team in the NBA G-League

Mexico City– Mexico and the NBA are each intertwining their agreements and this time Mexico City received the first of two NBA regular-season games between the Mavericks and Pistons where moments before the duel agreement was reached that Mexico will be a slam dune official team in the NBA Development League, G-League. Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, and Raúl Zárraga, director of NBA Mexico, broke the news that CDMX’s Los Capitanes will participate as the 29th G-League franchise beginning in the 2020 season, in its 19th edition. 
“We are excited to officially announce that from this day Mexico will have a team in the NBA G-League and are the first country outside the United States and Canada to do so. This demonstrates the NBA’s great commitment to Mexico, a relationship that reaches 30 games this year and we will remain united for a long time,” said Adam Silver, who said the deal so far is for 5 years. 
The selected team has as its headquarters the Juan de la Barrera Gymnasium which will be remodeled for the occasion. In history Mexico being one of the countries that does not participate in the NBA has come to have more games than any other place in the world of the best basketball, reaching 30 with the two games that will only be played, all this began more than 25 years ago. 



Original source in Spanish

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