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NEW YORK, MIES, MUMBAI— The National Basketball Association (NBA), the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) today announced that Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia 2018 will be held May 30 – June 2 at The NBA Academy India in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), marking the second time that the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program will be held in India. BWB Asia 2018 will bring together the top male and female players ages 17 and under from throughout the Asia-Pacific region to learn directly from NBA and FIBA players, legends and coaches and to compete against the best young players from the region. The NBA and the BFI also today announced that from May 27 – 29, The NBA Academy India will host a basketball development camp for top female prospects from throughout India as part of The NBA Academies Women’s Program . The NBA and the BFI will identify 20-25 female prospects ages 17 and under to attend the camp. 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame member Jennifer Azzi, two-time WNBA Champion Ruth Riley and former college coach Blair Hardiek – the global technical directors for women’s programming across the league’s seven academies – will oversee the camp. BWB Asia 2018 and The NBA Academies Women’s Program camp will also include a variety of NBA Cares and Jr. NBA community outreach efforts with youth in New Delhi in partnership with local community organiza...

Talk to any international NBA scout worth his salt, and he will tell you there is nowhere in the world a potential draft pick can go unnoticed. The league's reach stretches its fingertips to every corner of the globe, plucking even the most unlikely prospects. Nobody embodies the NBA's foreign developmental philosophy better than Princepal Singh, an electrician's son from the small farming town of Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab, India, who is the country's latest and greatest hope to become its first NBA player. "We may have a few slip through our hands, but not many," Scott Flemming, the technical director for NBA Academy India in Delhi, told Yahoo Sports. "We've kind of turned over every rock trying to find players." Princepal played volleyball. He knew nothing of basketball when in 2015 coaches at Punjab's Ludhiana Academy noticed his size and athleticism and convinced him to give a different sport a shot. Six years later, he is a 20-year-old draft-eligible graduate of the NBA Global Academy, fresh off a season on the G League's Ignite, training in Los Angeles as he awaits word on an uncertain but promising basketball future. How he got here is a testament to the NBA's investment in both basketball in India and Princepal as the most promising prospect in a nation of 1.4 billion people. The two are in the nascent stages of their growth, and Princepal is holding the ball on a precipice, having already lifted it higher than any of his countrymen, standing atop the NBA's develop...

The Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant and 3,459 children from the Reliance Foundation Junior NBA program in India entered the Guinness Book of World Records on Friday after holding the world's largest basketball lesson in multiple venues. Durant, the MVP of the 2017 NBA Finals, conducted the record-breaking feat at the NBA Academy India, the new basketball training center in the Delhi National Capital Region for the top male and female prospects from throughout the country. Lights, Camera, Basketball! Finals MVP Also read: [ ] One group of players was with Durant at the academy, while other boys and girls participated via satellite from Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. "Sharing my love of basketball with thousands of boys and girls across India was an unbelievable experience," Durant said. "It was an honor to coach these amazing kids and to be a part of this special day." Durant, making his first trip to India, is supporting the growth of basketball in the country. While in Delhi, he has coached top prospects at the NBA Academy India and built two new courts at a school as part of his foundation's "Build It And They Will Ball" Courts Renovation Initiative. 🏀 "Sports [have] the ability to unite people, and this record-setting NBA clinic led by Finals MVP Kevin Durant helped us connect young basketball players throughout the country in a single event," said NBA India managing director Yannick Colaco. The NBA Academy India, which opened in May, builds on the leagu...

NBA Academy is an elite basketball development initiative that provides top high school-age prospects from outside the U.S. with a holistic approach to player development and a predictable pathway to maximize their potential. The NBA Academy Women’s Program is a series of basketball development camps for top female prospects from outside the U.S. at the league’s academies. In March 2018, the NBA launched the NBA Academy Women’s Program. Since then, the program has engaged more than 250 prospects through camps in India, Mexico, Senegal and the U.S. A major goal of the NBA Academy Women’s Program is to help create a pathway for top prospects from all corners of the world to maximize their potential, whether collegiate, international and/or professional basketball. Since 2018, more than 60 female NBA Academy participants have committed to prep schools, colleges or NCAA Division I schools in the U.S. 1. Han Xu (China) became the first NBA Academy Women’s Program participant to be drafted into the WNBA when she was selected 14th overall by the New York Liberty in the 2019 WNBA Draft. 2. UConn standouts Aaliyah Edwards (Canada) and Nika Muhl (Croatia) both took part in the NBA Academy Women’s Program at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Final Four. 3. Aicha Ndour (Senegal), who participated in the NBA Academy Women’s Program in Africa, currently plays for Rutgers University. 4. Sanjana Ramesh (India), who participated in the NBA Academy Women’s Program in India, became the second Indian-bor...

The National Basketball Association’s (NBA) maiden season kicked off in October 1949. And it took a good 70 years before action from the basketball league came over to India. Since 1984, the NBA has visited several countries for their preseason games; including Italy, Mexico, Britain, France and the Philippines among others. India came into the picture in 2019. Two matches featuring Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings, played in October 2019, at the Dome SVP Stadium in Mumbai was the first time that the glitz and glamour of the cash-rich American franchise league took centre stage in India. “It's fantastic and historic to have these two games here,” the league commissioner Adam Silver had said ahead of the NBA India Games. “But in the larger scope of developing a business, it's a very small step. You really have to go into it knowing that this is going to be a long-term project.” Though baby steps from the NBA's point of view, the preseason matches helped in reassuring the league’s commitment towards seeing India as a big market for the sport. While Since the early 2000s, there have been sporadic NBA broadcasts in India. However, from 2012 India’s basketball patrons have enjoyed unrestricted access to the sport following the NBA's India deal with broadcaster Sony with an eye on the future. Unhinged coverage of the regular season and the playoffs along with dedicated shows that give fans a look into the world of NBA has seen the league invest enough in cultivating a fan bas...

The NBA Academy India opened in May of 2017 at the Jaypee Greens Integrated Sports Complex in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) to give the top male and female prospects in the country the coaching and facilities required to realise their potential on and off the court. The Academy began with 21 male student-athletes and grew each year, providing the young prospects exposure to competitive basketball by playing alongside and against prospects of similar ages from across the world at events such as the Basketball Without Borders regional/global camps and the annual Academy Games. ACG, the official partner of the NBA Academy India, has assisted in conducting the annual ACG-NBA Jump since 2016. Every year from 2017, the program has worked like a funnel to add a new group of student-athletes. Few years in, the NBA Academy's efforts are starting to show. Princepal Singh became the torchbearer for the NBA Academy program when he became the first NBA Academy prospect to sign with the NBA G League Ignite - a new team of elite young prospects - in July 2020. Of his three years with the Academy, he spent one and a half in India and the rest at the Global Academy in Australia. For more on his journey, click As of Feb. 2022, nearly five years since its inception, the Academy has assisted six more Indian youngsters to get into prep schools or colleges in the United States. These boys have begun their historic journey to greatness and would hope to achieve what Princepal has and maybe...

The National Basketball Association’s (NBA) maiden season kicked off in October 1949. And it took a good 70 years before action from the basketball league came over to India. Since 1984, the NBA has visited several countries for their preseason games; including Italy, Mexico, Britain, France and the Philippines among others. India came into the picture in 2019. Two matches featuring Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings, played in October 2019, at the Dome SVP Stadium in Mumbai was the first time that the glitz and glamour of the cash-rich American franchise league took centre stage in India. “It's fantastic and historic to have these two games here,” the league commissioner Adam Silver had said ahead of the NBA India Games. “But in the larger scope of developing a business, it's a very small step. You really have to go into it knowing that this is going to be a long-term project.” Though baby steps from the NBA's point of view, the preseason matches helped in reassuring the league’s commitment towards seeing India as a big market for the sport. While Since the early 2000s, there have been sporadic NBA broadcasts in India. However, from 2012 India’s basketball patrons have enjoyed unrestricted access to the sport following the NBA's India deal with broadcaster Sony with an eye on the future. Unhinged coverage of the regular season and the playoffs along with dedicated shows that give fans a look into the world of NBA has seen the league invest enough in cultivating a fan bas...

The NBA Academy India opened in May of 2017 at the Jaypee Greens Integrated Sports Complex in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) to give the top male and female prospects in the country the coaching and facilities required to realise their potential on and off the court. The Academy began with 21 male student-athletes and grew each year, providing the young prospects exposure to competitive basketball by playing alongside and against prospects of similar ages from across the world at events such as the Basketball Without Borders regional/global camps and the annual Academy Games. ACG, the official partner of the NBA Academy India, has assisted in conducting the annual ACG-NBA Jump since 2016. Every year from 2017, the program has worked like a funnel to add a new group of student-athletes. Few years in, the NBA Academy's efforts are starting to show. Princepal Singh became the torchbearer for the NBA Academy program when he became the first NBA Academy prospect to sign with the NBA G League Ignite - a new team of elite young prospects - in July 2020. Of his three years with the Academy, he spent one and a half in India and the rest at the Global Academy in Australia. For more on his journey, click As of Feb. 2022, nearly five years since its inception, the Academy has assisted six more Indian youngsters to get into prep schools or colleges in the United States. These boys have begun their historic journey to greatness and would hope to achieve what Princepal has and maybe...

NEW YORK, MIES, MUMBAI— The National Basketball Association (NBA), the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) today announced that Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia 2018 will be held May 30 – June 2 at The NBA Academy India in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), marking the second time that the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program will be held in India. BWB Asia 2018 will bring together the top male and female players ages 17 and under from throughout the Asia-Pacific region to learn directly from NBA and FIBA players, legends and coaches and to compete against the best young players from the region. The NBA and the BFI also today announced that from May 27 – 29, The NBA Academy India will host a basketball development camp for top female prospects from throughout India as part of The NBA Academies Women’s Program . The NBA and the BFI will identify 20-25 female prospects ages 17 and under to attend the camp. 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame member Jennifer Azzi, two-time WNBA Champion Ruth Riley and former college coach Blair Hardiek – the global technical directors for women’s programming across the league’s seven academies – will oversee the camp. BWB Asia 2018 and The NBA Academies Women’s Program camp will also include a variety of NBA Cares and Jr. NBA community outreach efforts with youth in New Delhi in partnership with local community organiza...

NBA Academy is an elite basketball development initiative that provides top high school-age prospects from outside the U.S. with a holistic approach to player development and a predictable pathway to maximize their potential. The NBA Academy Women’s Program is a series of basketball development camps for top female prospects from outside the U.S. at the league’s academies. In March 2018, the NBA launched the NBA Academy Women’s Program. Since then, the program has engaged more than 250 prospects through camps in India, Mexico, Senegal and the U.S. A major goal of the NBA Academy Women’s Program is to help create a pathway for top prospects from all corners of the world to maximize their potential, whether collegiate, international and/or professional basketball. Since 2018, more than 60 female NBA Academy participants have committed to prep schools, colleges or NCAA Division I schools in the U.S. 1. Han Xu (China) became the first NBA Academy Women’s Program participant to be drafted into the WNBA when she was selected 14th overall by the New York Liberty in the 2019 WNBA Draft. 2. UConn standouts Aaliyah Edwards (Canada) and Nika Muhl (Croatia) both took part in the NBA Academy Women’s Program at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Final Four. 3. Aicha Ndour (Senegal), who participated in the NBA Academy Women’s Program in Africa, currently plays for Rutgers University. 4. Sanjana Ramesh (India), who participated in the NBA Academy Women’s Program in India, became the second Indian-bor...