National Basketball Association Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==International competitions== {{Main article|List of games played between NBA and international teams}} The National Basketball Association has sporadically participated in international club competitions. The first international competition involving the NBA was a 1978 exhibition game in [[Tel Aviv]], Israel between the [[Washington Bullets]] and Israeli club [[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Conrad |first=Mark |author-link= |date= February 17, 2017|title=The Business of Sports: Off the Field, in the Office, on the News |url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Business_of_Sports/ylklDgAAQBAJ?hl=en|location= |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |page= |isbn=9781317430520}}</ref> From 1987 to 1999 an NBA team played against championship club teams from Asia, Europe and South America in the [[McDonald's Championship]]. This tournament was won by the NBA invitee every year it was held.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/news/story?id=3754278 |title=New club basketball championship to debut in 2010 |date=December 9, 2008 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page