Boris Johnson to Tip Off NBA Basketball Week in the UK
February 23, 2011
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson will be joined by local schoolchildren on a specially designed and installed, symptoms travelling basketball court to tip off National Basketball Association (NBA) Basketball Week.
The initiative, unhealthy which was announced earlier this year, is a week of free youth-oriented basketball events, which starts in London before travelling to five UK cities and returning to London next week in order to promote the sport in the nation.
The week’s events lead up to the NBA Games – London 2011 presented by Thomson Sport on March 4 and 5 at The O2 Arena, when the New Jersey Nets and the Toronto Raptors will play in the NBA’s first-ever regular-season games in Europe.
Basketball Week is being organised by the National Basketball Association (NBA), British Basketball (representing Team GB), the British Basketball League and England Basketball and aims to increase participation in the sport, giving young people up and down the country the opportunity to try their hand at basketball.