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THREE INDIAN PROSPECTS SEJIN MATHEW ,PRINCEPAL SING, AND PUSHPA SENTHIL KUMAR FROM INDIA FOR THE FOURTH ANNUAL BASKETBALL WITHOUT BORDERS GLOBAL CAMP IN LOS ANGELES

12/02/2018

Seji Mathew from Kerala, Principal Singh from Punjab and  Pushpa Senthil Kumar from Tamil Nadu are the  prospects from India who find their Place  when The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) today announced the top 65 boys and girls from 36 countries who will travel to Los Angeles for the fourth annual Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Global Camp.

The camp will be held Feb. 16-18 at the Los Angeles Lakers’ practice facility as part of NBA All-Star 2018 and Nike will serve as the official partner.
Five-time NBA All-Star Al Horford (Boston Celtics; Dominican Republic) and 2018 NBA All-Star Goran Dragic (Miami Heat; Slovenia), along with Domantas Sabonis (Indiana Pacers; Lithuania), Timofey Mozgov (Brooklyn Nets; Russia) and Sam Dekker (LA Clippers; U.S.), will coach the top high school age campers from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.

Sejin who hails from Tiruvalla was now training with NBA academy in NOIDA This was his first Invitation to BWD camp last year he has also attended the Asia Pacific camp in China and also part of the Indian team that Toured for the launching of NBA Global Academy. Australia He also represented India at the 3on3 Championship ASIA cup 2017 in Malaysia.

Horford, Dragic, Sabonis, Mozgov and Dekker will be joined by NBA Global Ambassador Dikembe Mutombo (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), former NBA players Adonal Foyle (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Michael Cooper (U.S.), Acie Law (U.S.), Pops Mensah-Bonsu (England), Bostjan Nachbar (Slovenia), Mamadou N’Diaye (Senegal), Cherokee Parks (U.S.), Tiago Splitter (Brazil), Rod Strickland (U.S) and Ronny Turiaf (France), Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame members Jennifer Azzi (U.S.) and Ann Meyers-Drysdale (U.S.), former WNBA players Lindsey Harding (U.S.), Ebony Hoffman (U.S.), Ruth Riley (U.S.) and Michele Van Gorp (U.S.), as well as select players participating in NBA All-Star 2018.
For the first time in BWB history, the camp will feature nine current prospects from NBA Academies, the league’s network of elite basketball training centres around the world for top male and female prospects from outside the U.S. Since October 2016, NBA Academies have been launched in Canberra, Australia; Jinan, Urumqi and Zhuji, China; Mexico City, Mexico; Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), India; and Thies, Senegal.
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