The NBA of the future looks to Bologna. On April 10, Basket City will be one of the six Italian squares where the Nba Basketball School will organize a series of clinics for young basketball players of both sexes aged between 6 and 16. The experience will be repeated in June, when taking advantage of the good weather and the holidays, the kids will have the opportunity to experience the dynamics of the camp, being able to try their hand at …
The NBA of the future looks to Bologna. On April 10, Basket City will be one of the six Italian squares where the Nba Basketball School will organize a series of clinics for young basketball players of both sexes aged between 6 and 16. The experience will be repeated in June, when taking advantage of the good weather and the holidays, the boys will have the opportunity to experience the dynamics of the camp, being able to try their hand at the ball in wedges for the whole day. In Bologna from June 27th to July 1st.
“We are thrilled to announce this partnership with Champions’ Camp, which shares our commitment to create positive and healthy experiences for young people in Italy – comments Neal Meyer, associate vice president of Basketball Operations in Europe and the Middle East – and we don’t see the time to bring boys and girls from all over Italy to the game, so that they can learn the fundamental rules and basic values of basketball under the guidance of expert coaches “.
The clinic and the camp are two pilot experiments to get to collaborate on a stable basis with the NBA, to have a sort of basketball academy under the Two Towers as early as 2023.
The goal is to continue to propose the development of the skills of young players under the guidance of the Technical Director of the Basketball School and his coaching staff, while promoting the values of team play, integrity and respect. This initiative is part of a project developed by the NBA and is an investment to provide a better understanding of the learning and improvement process to the players, but also to parents, coaches and organizations, was launched by the international department and avails itself of the advice of coaches. Nba, current or past, players and player development specialists. It is not the first time that Bologna hosts experiences of this type (in 2019 Boris Diaw), but they have always been sporadic experiences within initiatives promoted by the NBA itself. This project, on the other hand, aims to be a lasting bridge over time between the world of professionals and young Italians.
Massimo Selleri
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