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NBA to hold National Skills Challenge finals tomorrow

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

Bell, a Utah Jazz guard, will also conduct an NBA Cares clinic at the stadium in conjunction with a Delhi-based NGO, 'Love in Action', which uses the sport to provide life-skills education to children from slums.

Bell is also scheduled to have a stint with India's senior men's national basketball team before returning home on July 17.

"I am looking forward to have an interaction with the budding basketball players here. I will share my knowledge and experience with them and will also be taking note of the areas that need to be worked upon," Bell, who had an up-and-down season for his club this season, said.

 

He added that NBA was taking a lot of initiatives to lift the profile of the sport in India and added that there was no reason why the hoopsters here can't make it to the big stage.

Bell, however, said that basketball needs to be popularised among youth so that the country has a big pool to pick from. More

  

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First Published: Jul 13 2012 | 4:35 PM IST

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