AL HORFORD AND DIKEMBE MUTOMBO TRAVELING TO SOUTH AFRICA AS PART OF NBA 2013 WITHOUT BORDERS

- NBA Players and Coaches to Mentor Top Basketball Talent and Participate in Extensive Community Outreach -

- Current and Former Argentinian NBA Players to Highlight Camp in -

NEW YORK, JULY 11, 2013 - The 2013 Basketball without Borders (BWB) schedule will feature a first-time camp in Portugal, and will return to and South Africa, it was announced today by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Basketball without Borders is the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development program that uses sport to create positive social change.

BWB Americas will tip off the summer schedule from July 25 – 28, with a return to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the camp was first held in 2005. Highlighting the camp will be current and former Argentinian NBA players (free agent, 12-13 season with ), Manu Ginobili (free agent, 12-13 season with ), Walter Hermann, , (New York Knicks), Pepe Sanchez, and (), who will also be joined by Chris Copeland (free agent, 12-13 season with New York Knicks) and James Anderson (Houston Rockets). In partnership with NBA Cares Community Partner TECHO, the NBA contingent will paint transitional homes which will benefit families in need.

Portugal will host BWB Europe for the first time when the camp visits Almada from August 15 – 18. Chicago Bulls teammates from the 12-13 season , Nate Robinson and Vladimir Radmanovic will lead top players from across Europe, while WNBA Legend Ticha Penicheiro will lead a BWB Girls Camp for 40 local players.

BWB Africa will return to Johannesburg, South Africa for the 10 th time August 29 – September 1, and will feature Kyrie Irving (), Al Horford (Atlanta Hawks), Joakim Noah (Chicago Bulls), and Serge Ibaka, Thabo Sefolosha and Hasheem Thabeet (), along with NBA Global Ambassador Dikembe Mutombo, as camp coaches.

BWB features NBA players and coaches training top youth players and leading daily life-skills seminars on values such as leadership, character development, and living a healthy lifestyle. Through NBA Cares, the league’s global social responsibility program, the NBA players and coaches participate in community outreach efforts highlighted by the creation of places for children and families to live, learn or play.

Nike, a BWB global partner since 2002, will again outfit the campers and coaches of all three camps with Nike apparel and footwear.

Since its inception, the NBA and FIBA have staged 33 BWB camps in 20 cities in 17 countries. More than 140 different current and former NBA/WNBA players have joined with more than 100 NBA coaches to act as mentors for more than 1,900 campers from just over 100 countries, with 27 BWB campers drafted into the NBA.

About the NBA: The NBA is a global sports and media business built around three professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association, the Women’s National Basketball Association, and the NBA Development League. The league has established a major international presence with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 47 languages and NBA merchandise for sale in more than 125,000 stores in 100 countries on 6 continents. NBA rosters currently feature 85 international players from 36 countries and territories. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, which is available in more than 61 million U.S. homes, and NBA.com, which averages more than 42 million page views per day, more than half of which originate from outside of North America. The NBA is the No. 1 professional sports league on social media, with more than 400 million likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares, the league and its teams and players have donated more than $220 million to charity, completed more than 2.5 million hours of hands-on community service, and created more than 805 places where kids and families can live, learn, or play.

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Contact: Rachel Walsh, NBA, (212) 407-8058, [email protected]