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Playground Legends 3-on-3 (Meadowlands)

October 1, 2010 in Events

25/09/10
Fiat Sports Centre, Zone 9 Meadowlands, Soweto

The day came and went with the Playground Legends standing tall on the day. Fiat Sports Centre, Zone 9 Meadowlands, Soweto is where it all went down.

8 Teams signed up for the contest and boy did the teams bring their game, as teams from the surrounding hoods came through to pit their skills against each other. We witnessed some scintillating game-play with some teams dominating their opponents from start to finish in their match-ups, whilst other matches were hard fought with either side not allowing an inch for the opponents to gain the advantage.

As the contest goes someone had to win and someone had to loose. In the final match-up Jordan, Musa and Given (Red team) faced Mike, Mandla and Siphiwe (Burgundy team). Stage was set for an exciting encounter between the two teams since the Red team came into the finals as the favourites and the Burgundy team the underdogs.

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Day 13: Variety is the spice of life

September 13, 2010 in 30 Days

This article is part of the series “30 days to being a better basketball player“.

"night time basketball, #3" by cjelli, via flickr

There are many ways to enjoy the game of basketball, and one way to keep yourself and your friends/team enthused is to play some different games when you’re playing/practicing/scrimmaging.

There are lots of different ways to play , here are just a few that you can use:

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SA’s basketball team at the Youth Olympic Games

August 18, 2010 in News

YOG basketballSouth Africa is taking part in the men’s basketball at the Youth Olympic Games, with these being the first ever Games taking place.

South Africa was selected to participate along with 19 other countries, both developing and developed. With SA being drawn in Group D along with the Phillipines, Croatia, the US Virgin Islands and Spain (their senior team is current men’s FIBA world champions), it was never going to be easy.

Progress so far

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Basketball a shining star at the Youth Olympic Games

August 18, 2010 in News

Youth Olympic Games 2010The Youth Olympic Games are underway, and if reports are to be believed, the rollout of the new FIBA 33 format basketball tournament has been one of the highlights so far.

From Tom Degun’s article on insidethegames.biz:

“While the majority of the sports at these Youth Olympics are no different in structure to their counterparts at the senior Olympic Games, basketball has decided to be different.

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Singapore’s Youth Olympic Games team – first look

April 16, 2010 in News

Here’s a first look at the Singapore basketball team that’ll be representing at the Youth Olympic Games in August (I believe they’re the team in white).

Ain’t Youtube great – getting to scout the other teams from the other side of the world :)

The clip is just over 3 minutes long. There are a couple of good moves in there, and the big guy seems to have speed to complement his size. No idea how these guys compare to the teams from other countries though, but interesting nonetheless.

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