G League adding a team in Mexico City starting next season
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The G League is going to Mexico.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Thursday night that Capitanes — a Mexico City-based team from the top Mexican pro league — will be joining the G League starting with the 2020-21 season as the league’s 29th team.
Capitanes becomes the first G League team from outside the U.S. and Canada. The announcement was made shortly before Dallas and Detroit played the first of two NBA regular-season games happening this week in Mexico City.
Silver says bringing a G League team to Mexico City “is a historic milestone for the NBA which demonstrates our commitment to basketball fans in Mexico and across Latin America.”
The initial agreement between Capitanes and the G League is for five years.
