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Patty Mills starts first Indigenous Community Basketball League, partnering with NBA
Basketball is already a hugely popular sport in Indigenous communities, but a new program by NBA champion and three-time Olympian Patty Mills aims to improve young Indigenous lives on and off the court.
Key points:
- There are currently three Indigenous men playing in the NBL
- Former NBL player Tyson Demos says he did not have many Indigenous basketball-playing role models
- The NBA is partnering with Mills’s organisation to try to unearth more talent like the Spurs star
The Indigenous Community Basketball League (ICBL) is launching this Sunday in eight locations around the country.
Former Illawarra Hawks player Tyson Demos is the director of basketball operations and said he has seen “some serious untapped talent” in remote Indigenous…
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