The NBA and Basketball England have announced a multi-year partnership to create the Jr. NBA Basketball England League – a secondary school basketball programme for boys and girls ages 11-12.
The Jr. NBA Basketball England League will feature 30 youth teams across London playing an eight-game season followed by single-elimination playoffs to determine the league champion.
Each of the secondary schools will represent one of the 30 NBA teams and will receive corresponding NBA t-shirts for their games.
The league will run for 10-12 weeks from October through December, with a Final Four to be played ahead of NBA Global Games London 2015 featuring the New York Knicks versus the Milwaukee Bucks at The O2 on January 15, 2015.
“As part of our commitment to grassroots basketball development here in the UK, we are excited to partner with Basketball England on the Jr. NBA Basketball England League,” said Benjamin Morel, NBA Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“Through this secondary school programme, we look forward to crowning the first-ever Jr. NBA Basketball England League Champion and continuing to grow the game of basketball.”
Basketball England CEO Huw Morgan said: “We’re delighted to be entering into partnership with the NBA for the first time and look forward to providing more basketball opportunities within the English education system. The programme will lay the groundwork for the development of youth basketball in England, and we’re excited to collaborate with the NBA.”
We have a tiny favour to ask. In 2018 we set out to make Hoopsfix sustainable by building our relationship directly with our readers. Up until now, Hoopsfix has been creating editorials, videos and podcasts to provide sorely missing coverage of the British game and its distinct culture and community.
We have funded Hoopsfix with our freelance work creating basketball media, but sadly that means not only does it fall behind our client’s priorities, but some of those clients are the same organisations we need to report objectively on putting us in a conflicted position.
We want to devote more time to our mission of helping British basketball reach its potential, and produce even more content for the basketball community by making Hoopsfix a sustainable 100% independent business funded directly by our readers through Patreon.
If everyone who enjoys our content chose to support us, our future would be much more secure. For as little as $3 per month, you can support Hoopsfix – and it only takes a minute.
We are tremendously honoured and humbled to have a community of people who value what we do, and we look forward to being at the forefront of the British game as it continues to evolve.
0 comments