• In 2007, Basketball without Borders reaches four continents for the third consecutive year: 
    • Basketball without Borders Asia:
      July 5 – 8 at Shanghai Sports Institute, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
    • Basketball without Borders Americas:
      July 31 – August 3 at Esporte Clube Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • Basketball without Borders Europe:
      August 6-10 at Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Paris, France
    • Basketball without Borders Africa:
      September 5-9 at American International School of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Basketball without Borders is a global basketball development and community relations outreach progam that uses the sport of basketball to influence positive social change and features dozens of current and former NBA players and team personnel as camp coaches. 

  • Each Basketball without Borders camp unites young athletes from across each continent to take part in basketball instruction and competition. Each of the NBA players serving as coaches is assigned to a team and works with the campers individually.

  • The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) selects the young players (ages 19 & under) based on their basketball skills, leadership abilities and dedication to the sport of basketball.  To promote friendship and diversity, the campers are divided into teams without regard to race and nationality. They share living quarters with their new teammates and participate in daily seminars that promote education, leadership, character, healthy living and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

  • Basketball without Borders has expanded its reach to nine countries and territories on five continents since the inaugural camp in 2001. The program has featured more than 250 NBA players, coaches and team personnel from 30 different teams as camp coaches and mentors for nearly1,200 young athletes from more than 100 different countries and territories.  In 2007, more than 65 members of the NBA family to took part, including more than 30 current and former NBA coaches and team personnel.

  • The NBA family and the campers have traveled more than 85 million miles and logged more than one million hours of community service participating in Basketball without Borders. In addition, the program has reached countless others through its extensive community relations outreach efforts that focus on HIV/AIDS awareness, education, grassroots basketball development and product donation on each continent.  Since the first Basketball without Borders in 2001, the program has partnered with UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, for the seminars on HIV/AIDS education and prevention.

  • Efforts culminate with an NBA Cares Legacy Project, the NBA’s premiere community initiative, which includes the creation of safe places where kids and families can live, learn or play.  Through Basketball without Borders, the NBA and its partners have created 37 places around the world where families and children can live, learn or play. The NBA and FIBA also donate products, such as basketballs, rims and sporting goods to local basketball federations and communities.

  • The inaugural Basketball without Borders took place in July 2001.  NBA legends Vlade Divac and Toni Kukoc, together with five other NBA players from the former Yugoslavia, re-united to work with 50 children from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia and Montenegro at La Ghirada in Treviso, Italy.