{"id":24539,"date":"2017-04-12T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=24539"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:01:12","slug":"nbas-first-basketball-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nbas-first-basketball-school\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA\u2019s first Basketball School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: The National Basketball Association (NBA) recently announced the setting up of its first basketball school in which of the following cities?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) New Delhi<br \/>\n(b) Mumbai<br \/>\n(c) Kolkata<br \/>\n(d) Chennai<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 7th April, 2017, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the setting up of its first basketball school, a network of tuition-based basketball development programmes, in Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>The school is open to male and female players between ages 6-18. It is a part of a multi-year agreement with India On Track (IOT).<\/li>\n<li>The curriculum has been developed by the NBA\u2019s elite basketball development team in consultation with current and former NBA coaches and former NBA players d to help players, parents, coaches and organizations better understand the process of improvement.<\/li>\n<li>It covers on-court training, strength and conditioning, and basketball education for young players between 6-18 years of age and will be implemented by local coaches working directly with the NBA\u2019s international basketball operations staff around the world.<\/li>\n<li>The basketball school in Mumbai builds on the NBA\u2019s existing basketball and youth development initiatives in India.<\/li>\n<li>It is notable that India On Track (IOT) is a sports management firm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-sports\/nba-basketball-school-launched\/article17884111.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-sports\/nba-basketball-school-launched\/article17884111.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/india.nba.com\/news\/nba-launches-international-basketball-schools-network\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/india.nba.com\/news\/nba-launches-international-basketball-schools-network\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The National Basketball Association (NBA) recently announced the setting up of its first basketball school in which of the following cities? (a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai (c) Kolkata (d) Chennai Ans: (b) On 7th April, 2017, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the setting up of its first basketball school, a network of tuition-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097],"tags":[2379],"class_list":["post-24539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smics","tag-sports-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}