Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 12, 2023, 17:48 IST
The National Basketball Association (NBA) on Friday introduced that twotime NBA champion and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member Ray Allen is visiting India from Friday, May 12 – Tuesday, May 16 as a part of the league’s continued efforts to develop the sport of basketball within the nation.
Allen will first go to Mumbai, the place he’ll attend a reside T20 cricket match and make a visitor look on JioCinema’s cricket present. On May 15, Allen will go to NBA Academy India, an elite basketball coaching heart which was supported in prior years by ACG for the highest prospects from all through India and the primary of its type within the nation, in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), the place he’ll lead a basketball clinic for 50 college students from the NBA Basketball School applications in India and prepare with NBA Academy India prospects.
“I’m excited to make this trip to India to experience the country’s local sporting culture,” stated Allen.
“The NBA has contributed so much to the growth of basketball in India, and I look forward to playing a part in their continued efforts to grow the game.”
A 6’5” capturing guard, Allen was drafted No. 5 general within the 1996 NBA Draft and went on to win two NBA championships throughout his 18-year profession, with the Boston Celtics in 2008 and with the Miami Heat in 2012. The 10-time NBA All-Star retired because the all-time chief in three-point area objectives earlier than the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry surpassed his document in 2021. Allen was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018 and was named to the NBA seventy fifth Anniversary Team previous to the 2021-22 season.
NBA Basketball School and NBA Academy India are a part of the NBA’s broader basketball growth initiatives in India that present a predictable pathway for gamers to be taught the sport and maximize their potential. NBA Basketball School, a community of tuition-based basketball growth applications open to female and male gamers from exterior the U.S. ages 6 to 18, launched in India in 2017. There are presently 40 NBA Basketball School applications throughout 27 places in eight cities in India. NBA Academy India, which opened in 2017, has seen 20 female and male individuals decide to NCAA Division I colleges and junior faculties within the U.S. or signal skilled contracts.
Since 2006, greater than 35 present and former NBA and WNBA gamers have visited India with the NBA, together with Harrison Barnes, Muggsy Bogues, Chris Bosh, Bruce Bowen, Corey Brewer, Swin Cash, Tamika Catchings, Seth Curry, Kevin Durant, Pau Gasol, Robert Horry, Dwight Howard, Briann January, Caris LeVert, Robin Lopez, Brook Lopez, Kevin Martin, Andre Miller, Kelly Olynyk, Dwight Powell, Jason Richardson and Brian Shaw.
