NBA Player Visits India for Promotional Tour

July 10, 2012

NBA player Raja Bell will visit India from July 12 to 17 to participate in basketball events in Delhi to increase the popluarity of  basketball and the NBA.

Bell will attend the Junior NBA/ Junior WNBA National Skills Challenge Finals at Thyagaraj Stadium on July 14. The school-based programme has taught basketball to 10,000 students and 800 coaches in five Indian cities.

Bell will lead an NBA Cares clinic at Thyagaraj Stadium on the same day in conjunction with Love in Action – a New Delhi-based NGO that uses basketball to provide life-skills education to children from slums in East Delhi.

On July 15, Bell will hold  clinic for select Mahindra NBA Challenge participants, the largest community league in India, at DPS Vasant Kunj.

He will train with India’s Senior Men’s and U18 Men’s National Basketball Teams at the IG Stadium in Delhi on July 16 and 17.{jcomments on}