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August 8th, 2014 by Jared Zwerling Leave a reply »

The NBA envisions a day when Africa will have a booming basketball infrastructure, and a key individual who's been behind that movement is new Brooklyn Nets head coach Lionel Hollins.

Hollins is a veteran to Africa. This week marks the eighth time he's been there for basketball activities and the fourth for the NBA's Basketball Without Borders (BWB) program, which includes community outreach initiatives. While in Johannesburg, Hollins has been teaching the next wave of African standouts—along with NBA Global Ambassador Dikembe Mutombo, fellow coaches Dwane Casey and Brian Shaw, and players Bismack Biyombo, Tobias Harris, Amir Johnson, Terrence Jones, Andrei Kirilenko, Roger Mason Jr. and Greg Monroe—at the NBA's 12th annual BWB Africa. The event features a select group of 50 boys and 25 girls from 20 countries around the continent.

Twenty-one years since the NBA first hosted a basketball camp in Africa, led by Mutombo and former Commissioner David Stern, more than 35 players from the continent have made it to the NBA, including eight campers from the league's BWB program in the region. One of t ...

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