The NBA will play two regular season games in London next March, part of a push to bring professional basketball to the city before it hosts the 2012 Olympics.
The matches, to be held at London's O2 Arena on March the 5th and 6th, will feature the Toronto Raptors and the New Jersey Nets and will represent one home game and one away game for both teams.
The NBA commissioner David Stern says the staging of the first regular-season games in Europe is a milestone for the NBA and the ongoing development of basketball in the region.
The league has played a handful of regular season games outside North America since holding its first in Japan in 1990, but has never played any in Europe.
The two games, to highlight the league's new-found international flavour, fulfil a promise first made by Stern in 2007 to hold regular season games in the English capital.
