FIBA and the National Basketball Association (NBA) will enhance and expand grassroots basketball development globally through a new collaboration around the Jr. NBA, the NBA’s global youth basketball program for boys and girls.

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Through the expanded partnership, the world governing body of basketball will support the NBA’s grassroot development efforts by enhancing the Jr. NBA coaches training program and hosting referee education courses in connection with Jr. NBA programs around the world. FIBA and the NBA will also host a series of court and facility refurbishment projects in select markets to provide fun and safe environments for kids to learn and play the game. This season, the NBA and its teams will be reaching more than 51 million youth in 75 countries, in a number of cases together with national federations, through Jr. NBA league play, in-school programming, clinics, skills challenges, and other outreach events.

FIBA and the NBA will also partner on the Jr. NBA Global Championship, a youth basketball tournament for top 13- and 14-year-old boys and girls from around the world that the NBA launched last year, by enhancing programming, increasing accessibility across all international qualifying competitions, and providing international referees for the Global Championship this summer. The second Jr. NBA Global Championship, which will be held Aug. 6-11 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., will feature 32 teams (16 international and 16 U.S.), including boys and girls teams from Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, China, Europe and the Middle East, India, Latin America, and Mexico.

This is the latest in a number of close collaborations that FIBA and the NBA have forged over the years.

The two bodies co-founded Basketball Without Borders (BWB), the global basketball development and community outreach program that has been in place since 2001. The NBA and FIBA have staged 58 BWB camps in 37 cities in 29 countries reaching more than 3,400 participants, with 68 former BWB campers drafted into the NBA or signed as free agents

Earlier this year, the partnership between FIBA and the NBA reached a new milestone with the launch the Basketball Africa League (BAL), a new professional league featuring 12 club teams from across Africa scheduled to begin play next year, marking the NBA’s first collaboration to operate a league outside of North America.