That will be the 'NBA Café' of Barcelona, the first in Europe

The NBA has chosen the city of Barcelona to promote one of its most attractive initiatives worldwide expansion, great coffee-themed restaurant that is located in the center of the city, in Las Ramblas, which will become the first in Europe that launches the American professional league, reflecting the great interest that exists in the organization directed by Adam Silver 'Ciudad Condal'.

The project, unveiled by journalist Marc Mundet Rac 1, it takes time 'cooking' and already has all the permissions to point. Work will start shortly and is expected to be open in August or late September this year. This is the first initiative of its kind in the old continent and the second in the world outside the United States after the experience of Manila.

The 'NBA Café' will go on line business and the 'Hard Rock Cafe' and similar theme restaurants. You will have more than 500 square meters and will operate as a cafe, restaurant and cocktail bar. The home is filled with giant screens and TVs that emit NBA games and reports of the American league. It will not be open at dawn, so because of the time difference between week may not see games live, but it will be done before the meetings start, which often played on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the constant broadcasts of both current and historical and updated news competition matches, there will be visits of legendary players, exhibits collector's items and all kinds of sales of the American league. The idea is that this 'NBA Café' will become a hub of activities attract basket and also due to its privileged situation, both tourists and local families.

In addition, the site will be decorated by many historical objects of players and NBA teams, some of which will be related to the city of Barcelona as the 'Dream Team' of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan who played Games Olympic 1992.

The initiative has been coordinated with the Catalan group restoration AN Grup, which runs 28 restaurants, many of them in the city of Barcelona, ​​as Daps, Tapa Tapa, Pscolabis, Citrus, etc.

The NBA has spent years investing in the restoration as a business model. One of the most spectacular projects, for example, is the 'NBA City' the city of Orlando (United States), an Megacentro of 17,500 square meters and can accommodate about 350 people who have the aesthetics of a pavilion basket of makes several decades and where customers can eat, shop or indulge in the many activities related to the basket offered in their facilities.

Elsewhere in the world the NBA has landed with other projects. For example, in the city of Tianjin (China) has done a similar model to a sports center with basketball courts, gym and other facilities, including a restaurant there.