NBA commissioner David Stern wants to see the league become global, but there isn't currently a timetable for overseas expansion.

"There's some good possibility over the course of many years, that if there's appropriate arena development in Europe, there could be actual NBA franchises in Europe," Stern told the Associated Press. "That's the way we see the development of basketball in the world."

Stern was speaking in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, before the first-ever NBA exhibition game on the island.