Thabo Sefolosha of the Western Conference Final champion Oklahoma City Thunder will join a group of NBA players and coaches to lead sixty of the top young basketball players from across Africa for Basketball without Borders (BWB) Africa, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced today. The tenth African edition of the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from Aug 30 through Sep 2.
Sefolosha, whose father is South African, will join his Oklahoma City Thunder teammates Serge Ibaka (Congo), Nick Collison and Cole Aldrich as camp coaches along with Chicago Bulls Luol Deng (South Sudan), Milwaukee Bucks Luc Mbah A Moute (Cameroon), Brooklyn Nets CJ Watson, and NBA Global Ambassador Dikembe Mutombo (DRC). Sefolosha, Ibaka, Collison, Deng, Mbah a Moute and Mutombo have all previously participated in BWB camps, Mbah a Moute as both a camper (2003) and an NBA player coach.
Players from 26 countries will travel over 100,000 kilometers from all four corners of the African continent and descend on Johannesburg for the four-day basketball camp. The players, including four from South Africa and one from the newly formed Republic of South Sudan, were selected by FIBA, the NBA and participating federations based on their basketball skills, leadership abilities and dedication to the sport.
Running concurrently to the boys’ camp, 25 elite female South African players (ages 18 and under) will take part in a three-day girls’ camp, with expert instruction by WNBA Legend and six-time WNBA All-Star Chamique Holdsclaw.
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