The NBA is working with FIBA to create a new league, likely with at least some existing teams, but this will take time.

Silver touched on a number of topics — including schedule workload, the All-Star format and a goodbye to TNT — in an NBA Finals news conference Thursday.

After the joint conference between the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis, for some months, the public discussion around NBA Europe has gone quiet. However, in the past few days, the American executive has spoken on numerous occasions about such a project involving basketball on the Old Continent.