{"id":17796,"date":"2024-04-03T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=17796"},"modified":"2024-04-03T01:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:55:04","slug":"guyana-to-receive-new-3x3-basketball-courts-from-fiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-to-receive-new-3x3-basketball-courts-from-fiba\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana to Receive New 3&#215;3 Basketball Courts from FIBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana is set to bolster its basketball infrastructure with the addition of new 3&#215;3 courts, as part of the Central American and Caribbean Basketball Confederation&#8217;s (CONCENCABA) initiative to promote grassroots and 3&#215;3 basketball in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of the Guyana Basketball Federation, Michael Singh, leading a delegation to the CONCENCABA and Caribbean Basketball Confederation in Aruba, announced that Guyana has been promised new 3&#215;3 courts to be installed later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh also revealed another significant development during Guyana&#8217;s participation in the assemblies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have reached an agreement with neighboring Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname to establish a multi-nation league. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This league initiative aims to enhance collaboration and competition among regional basketball teams, with the possibility of additional countries like French Guiana and Barbados joining in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the focus of discussions at the assemblies was on the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championship, tentatively scheduled to be hosted in Jamaica later this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh commended his general secretary, who also serves as the president of CONCENCABA, for their contributions to the assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3&#215;3 basketball, a shortened version of traditional 5-on-5 basketball, is gaining popularity globally and is played on a half court instead of a full court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s delegation, led by President Michael Singh and including Vice President Jermaine Slater, is poised to advance the country&#8217;s basketball agenda and foster regional collaboration in the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana is set to bolster its basketball infrastructure with the addition of new 3&#215;3 courts, as part of the Central American and Caribbean Basketball Confederation&#8217;s (CONCENCABA) initiative to promote grassroots&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}