{"id":22803,"date":"2024-09-10T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2024-09-10T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:21:26","slug":"one-guyana-basketball-league-set-to-expand-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/one-guyana-basketball-league-set-to-expand-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"One Guyana Basketball League Set to Expand Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The One Guyana Basketball League is poised to expand in its second edition, building on the success of last year&#8217;s debut season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This growth is driven by President Irfaan Ali&#8217;s commitment to supporting sports in Guyana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) President, Jermaine Salter, has confirmed that preparations are well underway for the league\u2019s expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upcoming edition will feature teams from across the country, transforming the league into a national event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salter emphasized that this expansion will allow top clubs from all regions to participate, with the possibility of up to 25 teams competing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even clubs that do not make the final cut will have opportunities to represent their respective areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salter also highlighted plans to involve junior players in the league, focusing on the development of young talent as a core aspect of the tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, there may be a shift in venue locations for matches, which were previously held at the National Gymnasium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A parallel project, initiated by President Ali, involves constructing basketball courts in schools across the country, further boosting the sport&#8217;s development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is in its planning stages and aims to provide accessible courts, whether full or half-sized, at schools capable of hosting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports, Charles Ramson Jr., recently held a basketball stakeholders\u2019 engagement to discuss further strategies for promoting and developing basketball in Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The One Guyana Basketball League is poised to expand in its second edition, building on the success of last year&#8217;s debut season. This growth is driven by President Irfaan Ali&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22803","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\/22803","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=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22813,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions\/22813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}