Beyond Your Wildest Hoop Dreams: Why the World’s First Born-Global Sport is Primed for Twenty-First Century Sports Diplomacy
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Beyond Your Wildest Hoop Dreams: Why the World’s First Born-Global Sport is Primed for Twenty-First Century Sports Diplomacy

Today, the NBA sports a very international labor force but basketball was a global sport prior to 1992, with its own local indigenous cultures. So unlike other U.S.-affiliated sports leagues, the NBA was able to build upon long-established hoops cultures. As a result, basketball is uniquely primed for twenty-first century sports diplomacy. It can—and often does—lead the way thanks to several realities.

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The Top Stories for 2020
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The Top Stories for 2020

There’s a lot to be excited for as we kickoff the new decade.  I’m looking to 2020 as I continue to build out two key basketball stories of my own, but I also see 2020 as a break out year where many of the trends and movements in the global sports sphere finally bear fruit. Primarily, these are stories where cross-sport and cross-cultural influences—often influenced by different types of sports diplomacy—make all the difference.

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The Year in Review 2019: Sports Diplomacy to the Forefront
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The Year in Review 2019: Sports Diplomacy to the Forefront

As 2019 races across the finish line more quickly than a Ford at Le Mans, its clear that sports diplomacy—recognition of what it is, the various ways that it is being used, how it is changing the sports world, and some of its caveats—is ever-more present. This is true in my own work as a scholar-practitioner, as well as how athletes, teams, and countries tell their stories or how the sports business world is impacted by sports diplomacy, for better or worse. Here’s the top ten events and stories in which sports diplomacy threaded its way through my 2019—plus one honorable mention :)

 

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