Assistant Coach Brian James went to Africa for Basketball without Borders, and his blog is up at Bucks.com:
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On Day 2, our coaches are hoping to see marked improvement in the learning development of the 100 African campers participating. I'm coaching the Charlotte Bobcats here at camp and in our second day together we were much better than Day 1. We have nine players on our roster from eight different countries. They are from Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Zambia, and two from Senegal.
We won our only game today defeating the Sonics 52-34. Today we were given two interperters that spoke French and the Tribal Language of our two players from Senegal. It made a "World of Difference" and our team really got after it today.
This is one day that I can honestly say is a major reason that the NBA Basketball Without Borders program came to South Africa. In addition to the basketball, today we worked together with Habitat for Humanity to help build two homes in Katlehong. I was one of the many that climbed scaffolding and laid bricks -- one by one! Other people were mixing the cement and passing us the bricks. I can honestly say that I now have a new-found appreciation for brick-layers!
We were told that Habitat has constructed over 30 houses in Katlehong since 2005. The houses are very simple and affordable, and they give those who live in them a much-needed improvement from the shacks they once lived in.
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The rest of the blog is here:
http://www.nba.com/bucks/features/Br...s_BWB2007.html
Brian James blogs about Basketball without Borders
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