New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) For the very first time, Sony Pictures Sports Network will broadcast select Junior NBA Global Championship games in India, totalling over 12 hours of telecast.
The tournament starts on August 6 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World in Florida. The broadcast schedule for India will include eight games featuring the Jr. NBA India boys' and Jr. NBA India girls' teams, in addition to the US and International Championship games on August 10 and the Global Championship games on August 11. The games will be broadcast on Sony Ten 1 and Sony Ten 2 HD & SD channels.
The Jr NBA Global Championship is a youth basketball tournament for the top 13 and 14 years old boys and girls from around the world.
The tournament will feature boys and girls divisions, each comprising 16 regional champions (eight US teams and eight international sides) that will participate in a week of on-court competition and off-court programming in Orlando.
Three-time NBA Champion and Jr. NBA Global Championship ambassador Dwyane Wade, Utah Jazz guard and 2019 NBA Sportsmanship and Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award recipient Mike Conley, 2018 WNBA MVP and WNBA champion Breanna Stewart, New Orleans Pelicans vice president of Basketball Operations and Team Development and former WNBA All-Star Swin Cash and Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle will attend the event.
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