Four-time NBA championship winner and former Boston Celtics great Robert Parish launched the league's flagship Junior Hoop School programme for Indian children. The NBA is doing its bit in India through programmes like "Basketball without Borders" and "Hoop", with legends like Parish showing an interest in coaching assignments, things can only get better for Indian basketball in future.
Kobe Bryant provided a vital late spark as the United States reclaimed Olympic basketball supremacy.
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The Americans lost to Argentina in semi-final at Athens in 2004 and managed to win just a bronze.
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USA had lost to Argentina in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games semi-finals.
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Spanish guard Jose Calderon said that players would say they are sorry for the ad.
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In the ad the players pulled down the skin around their eyes to make them appear slanted.
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Spain's Pau Gasol scored nine of his 29 points in the extra five-minute period.
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Croatia beat reigning European champion Russia 85-78.
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Bryant will be a key member of the star-studded USA team that chases gold in Beijing.
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The exterior is built out of eco-friendly aluminium tiles.
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Basketball made its competitive Olympic debut at the 1936 Berlin Games.
China is heavily relying on 7 ft 6 in-tall Houston Rockets-star Yao Ming.
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