🏀🏀🏀 @NBA International Basketball Operations SVP Kim Bohuny provided critical context and insights for @SOAS_CISD Basketball Diplomacy Africa #oralhistory Project, helping us all to better understand the league’s growth in #Africa, @theBAL, #hoopsdiplomacy & much more (thread)
Bohuny has been front & center during the league’s global expansion 🌍🌏🌍🌎

Those focused on #NBA globalization will find good background to help their work ➡️ especially on grassroots #basketball development via JR NBA, Basketball Without Borders etc #hoopsdiplomacy
In this part, Bohuny discusses how the #NBA first went to Africa and why Mandela wanted the league to visit.

Its so powerful each time I read it #hoopsdiplomacy 👇🏽
What ideas do you come up with over dinner? Clearly, I need to up my game!

Here’s Bohuny discussing the origin of the #NBA Africa Game over one memorable dinner with colleagues (p6) #hoopsdiplomacy
“I think that’s one of the great things with sport, is—and you see it everywhere—that people-topeople exchanges are so important because it breaks down barriers,” says Bohuny #NBATwitter #hoopsdiplomacy #sportsdiplomacy
Bohuny also speaks to an important aspect of @theBAL ➡️ the domino effect for basketball and the ecosystem that supports it #hoopsdiplomacy
🏀 Read details and much more of my ranging conversation on #hoopsdiplomacy #SportsinAfrica with #NBA Kim Bohuny via @SOAS_CISD Basketball Diplomacy Africa #oralhistory Project (end)

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